[Bug 411728] [NEW] karmic a3: softwares made unusable by grub2, apparmor

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 01:07:00PM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> I use two proprietary softwares which have treated me very reliably and
> invaluably for years.  They are both by the same shareware author.  One
> is Bootit NG, boot manager, partition manager, etc.  The other is Image
> for Linux 2.
> 
> Grub2 in overwriting the main MBR overwrote Bootit NG which resides
> there and is a boot-loader, also responsible for partition-swapping.  I
> installed alpha 2 to the mbr on the /boot partition, and feel it should
> have not been changed as it was.  Other bootloaders and mbr utilities
> must be affected.  However, grub2 is very good.

This is not new with GRUB 2; Ubuntu has always behaved this way by
default, although there are ways to make the installer do otherwise. I
think it's the right default as there's no way to know in general how to
hook into an existing boot loader in the MBR, so that Ubuntu is actually
bootable after installation.

> Image for Linux runs inside a Linux distribution as in my case Ubuntu,
> for imaging partitions in case of a need to restore.  I have discovered
> today that it seems not to be allowed to execute the executable
> 'imagel'.  Upon running in terminal it is immediately killed.  Logs from
> the syslog and auth.log pertaining to this are attached.  I am not sure
> what they mean, I see a reference to apparmor.  Possibly mis-
> understanding something in IFL.

Please file this as a separate bug, as apparmor is entirely unrelated to
grub2.

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karmic a3: softwares made unusable by grub2, apparmor
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