Yesterday I was actually booted from my ubuntu backup disk. It contains a gparted clone of my internal partition (32-bit Jaunty on an iMac 7.1), an added swap partition and an hfs partition (formatted as hfs with MacOS. Ubuntu recognizes it as hfs+ but I can write to it - usually. Sometimes the permissions "cannot be determined" and then sbackup does not work, which is a massive bug that should be fixed). I could tell that I was booted from the disk because the LED kept flickering; also it is one of those noisy WD drives so I could hear it was working. Besides, my internal volume has changed since and looks different.
It was all an accident - my internal ubuntu partition was temporarily unbootable - but obviously there is no technical obstacle that prevents booting ubuntu from external USB volumes, even on the Mac; the problem seems to be ubuntu's half-baked access control management. UBUNTU DEVELOPERS: PLEASE NOTE THAT A PISSED-OFF USER IS A SECURITY RISK, NOT A SECURITY GAIN. If this mandatory selinux stuff isn't working, please replace it with something that does work (selinux was developed by the NSA, right? That can't be good). I cannot repeat the experiment because my internal volume boots again and I am not willing to delete it, but I should like to know if there are any other users who have experienced similar things. -- permissions of external harddrives should be ignored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
