[Bug 1944385] Re: REGRESSION: After GRUB update, 32-bit Ubuntu is no more bootable

2021-09-23 Thread Julian Andres Klode
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1876737 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876737 FWIW, the bug status should have been Won't fix and not Invalid, as the main bug. It's unfortunate your use case broke. Mixing multiple Ubuntu instances on a single machine is problematic (as there can

[Bug 1944385] Re: REGRESSION: After GRUB update, 32-bit Ubuntu is no more bootable

2021-09-23 Thread Julian Andres Klode
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1876737 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876737 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1876737 GRUB refuses to boot a 32-bit kernel when in EFI mode -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1944385] Re: REGRESSION: After GRUB update, 32-bit Ubuntu is no more bootable

2021-09-23 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Booting 32-bit linux kernels on 64-bit UEFI is unsupported. Preventing that unsupported combination from booting is a feature in recent grub versions, older versions erroneously let the boot continue despite the kernel possibly being unable to handle the addresses where UEFI services are located.

[Bug 1944385] Re: REGRESSION: After GRUB update, 32-bit Ubuntu is no more bootable

2021-09-23 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross