There is always a desire to ship the latest version of any software product; including boot loaders. However, upgrading a boot loader can be a frightening and risky procedure. Currently, the primary boot loader for x86 platforms is Grub. This boot loader has not been updated since the year 2006 and it is getting 'long in the tooth'. Grub does not support newer BIOS firmwares such as EFI and there is no intention that it ever will.

There is a replacement for Grub, which has been in development for approximately 6 years now; it is called Grub2. Switching to Grub2 would provide support for newer computer systems, internationalization, 'updates', 'bug fixes' and other improvements.

So, it is believed everyone would like to switch the default boot loader to Grub2. This upgrade makes sense and it allows development to move forward. Why don't we just replace Grub, then? There is one important question that needs to be answered. Is every computer system supported by Grub2 which Grub currently supports? This question is difficult to answer unless sufficient testing has been completed. That's where this page comes in.

== Testing Grub2 ==

If you are using (Jaunty Jackalope) or later, then Grub2 can be installed as a chain-loading boot loader and in parallel with your existing Grub installation. This will allow booting into Grub and selecting Grub2 from the boot loader menu. Then, you can test Grub2 for any problems before upgrading from Grub.

Even, if you are only able to test your computer by using Grub2 as a chain-loading boot loader; this would give the development team more information as to the viability of Grub2.

== Before Testing ==

'''Note: If you perform this upgrade from (Jaunty Jackalope) then, YOUR COMPUTER WILL NOT BOOT FROM THE HDD. Read and follow the instructions about changing "root" to "UUID" below.'''

Though, it is less likely you will have any issues when attempting a boot loader update; we strongly recommend that you take the necessary precautions for such a procedure. It is recommended that you have a current backup of your computer system before attempting this. You have backups, right? Also, it is recommended that you have a bootable optical drive or bootable USB disk available. Should you be unable to boot after the installation, then you can boot from one of these devices to repair the installation.

== How To Install Grub2 ==

{{{
sudo apt-get install grub-pc
}}}

At the first prompt, select OK. Next, at the "Chainload from menu.lst" prompt answer "Yes". And at the "Linux command line:" prompt just press the Enter key.

This will install Grub2 and modify the existing Grub boot loader menu, allowing one to chain-load Grub2 for testing on your computer. At this stage, the original Grub is still the primary boot loader, keeping its original boot menu items.

'''Note: Only in (Jaunty Jackalope) was there a bug in the Grub2 installer, ([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376879|LP#376879]]), where it modifies the existing Grub configuration incorrectly. If you experience this problem, at the "Chainload into Grub 2" menu item, press 'e' to edit the configuration. Press 'e' a second time to edit the top boot line and change:

{{{
root   xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
}}}

to:

{{{
uuid   xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx
}}}

and press the Enter key after editing this line. Then press 'b' to chainload and boot Grub2.

Note: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx is your partition UUID number.

If you can boot from Grub2 successfully, then you can install Grub2 onto your computer system as the main boot loader using the command:

{{{
sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy
}}}

NOTE: Make sure that you hit the space bar to select /dev/sda when it asks you the location where Grub needs to be installed. If you hit enter on this screen it will not install Grub on /dev/sda and your system will not boot. 

== User Errors ==
If you hit enter and Grub reports an error boot, then you need to boot the system from a bootable drive; such as a USB Flash Drive or Optical Drive. On my laptop, root is located on /dev/sda2 and /boot is located on /dev/sda1, you can find this out by the command 

{{{
$sudo fdisk -l
}}}

mount each to see which /dev/sda has what. Once you done that you need to mount your root 1st, in my case /dev/sda2

{{{
$sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
}}}

if you ls your /mnt you should see /boot, /dev, /home etc from your HDD. Now mount your /boot in my case it is on a separate partition called /dev/sda1

{{{
$sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
}}}

Next you need to bind mount all your devices from USB to the HDD...

{{{
$sudo mount --bind /dev/ /mnt/dev
}}}

chroot into your HDD system and fix things...

{{{
$sudo chroot /mnt
}}}

now you can run the command grub-install again to install grub to your /dev/sda

{{{
$sudo grub-install /dev/sda
$sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
}}}

Hit CTRL+D to get out of the chroot, unmount dirs in LIFO order, /mnt/dev, /mnt/boot and /mnt. reboot the system and you are good to go!




== Alternative Test ==

If you do not want to install grub2 on your machine but you do want to see if it works with your BIOS, an alternative test is as follows:

 * Download the bzip2 compressed image bootable-grub2-2.5GB.img.bz2 from
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/grub2-boot-tests/bootable-grub2-2.5GB.img.bz2 

 * Uncompress it:

{{{
bunzip2 bootable-grub2-2.5GB.img.bz2
}}}

 * Insert a 4GB or larger USB pen drive into your machine

 * Copy the image to the drive.  If it appears as block device /dev/sdz, do the following:

{{{
sudo dd if=bootable-grub2-2.5GB.img of=/dev/sdz
}}}
'''WARNING: Make sure you are writing to the correct block device before proceeding!'''

 * Boot your machine with this image.  If it boots OK, add your hardware to the list below. Note: This image boots from an ext3 partition.

== Editing ==

{{{
nano /boot/grub/grub.cfg   ### Do not edit directly. See /etc/grub.d/
}}}

== Results ==

(Please add your machine in the correct alphabetical order)

NOTE: if you only test chainloaded, put UNTESTED in the native column.

|| '''Machine''' || Chainloaded || Native || Root Filesystem || Dual Boot || Root on LVM and/or MD (which?) ||
|| Abit IT7 homebuilt || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty + Windows XP SP3 || No ||
|| Abaco Primo || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 3055 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 3680 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 4530-5627 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic + Windows 7 (pre RC) ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 4520 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Vista ||   ||
|| Acer Aspire 5050 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Jaunty ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 5022 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows XP || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5024 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows XP || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5051 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5103 WLMi|| PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5515 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows 7RC || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5520 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5672 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows XP || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5735 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows 7RC ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 5737Z || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows 7RC ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 5738ZG (GeForce G105M) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Acer Aspire 5920 (Intel GM965 Graphics) || PASS || PASS || ext4 (ext3 for /boot) || Hardy + Jaunty(with 2.6.30 kernel) + Windows XP + Fedora 11 || Root on LVM ||
|| Acer Aspire 5920 || PASS || PASS <<FootNote(Screen drawing UNUSABLY slow (NV8600M GT). 2secs for scrolling cmdline. GRUB_TERMINAL=console fixes it)>> || ext4 || Ubuntu Jaunty, Windows Vista ||
|| Acer Aspire 5930G || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty, Windows Vista ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire 6930G || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows Vista ||  ||
|| Acer Aspire One || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows 7 + Haiku ||
|| Acer Aspire One || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows 7 + Moblin2 || ||
|| Acer Aspire One D150 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || yes (encrypted) || ||
|| Acer Extensa 5220 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Acer Extensa 5620Z || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows XP ||  ||
|| Acer Extensa 5630Z || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Acer Ferrari 3400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + WinXP || No ||
|| Acer TravelMate 3260 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows 7 + Fedora 11 || No ||
|| Acer TravelMate 6292 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows Vista + Karmic || No ||
|| Acer TravelMate 8471 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Acer TravelMate 8106wlmi || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Apple Macbook 1.1 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Apple Macbook 2.1 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Apple Macbook 3.1 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || OSX + Karmic + Windows 7 ||
|| Apple Macbook 4.1 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Apple Macbook 5.1 || UNTESTED ||PASS || ext4 || Karmic alpha 2 + Windows 7 but NOT OSX <<FootNote(not really a problem because of refit we only need to boot linux)>>  <<FootNote(Also tested native efi using refit to load grub.efi. followed the instructions in the grub2 wiki under testingOnEfi and testingOnMacbook. Works great, although you need to put grub on the osx partition for it to work.)>> || No ||
|| Apple MacbookPro 4.1 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No (MacOS-X with Refit, not GRUB) ||
|| Apple MacbookPro 5.1 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No (MacOS-X with Refit, not GRUB) ||
|| Asrock 775 Dual VSTA home built || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No  ||  No  ||
|| Asrock P45TS || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Asus A6Ja || PASS ||PASS || ext4 || Jaunty || No ||
|| Asus A6K || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + WinXP Home || No ||
|| Asus A7V133 || PASS ||PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Asus A7V8X-X || PASS ||PASS || ext3 || Karmic || No ||
|| Asus A8N-E || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic || No ||
|| Asus A8N-VM CSM || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Asus A8Sc || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Gentoo || No ||
|| Asus A8js || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 900 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 900A || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Recovery ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1000 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1000H || PASS || PASS || ext3 || jaunty + recovery ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1000H || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1000H || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Jaunty + Fedora 11 || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1000HE || PASS || PASS || ext3 || jaunty + winXP + Win recovery ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1005HA || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Asus EEE-PC 1005HA || PASS || PASS || xfs || Karmic + WinXP || No ||
|| Asus !F3Jc || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Asus F9F || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Win Vista ||  NO||
|| Asus F5SL || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Win Vista + Win recovery ||  NO||
|| Asus M2A-VM || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty ||  LVM||
|| Asus M2NPV-VM ||PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty64 Jaunty32 Hardy || No ||
|| Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext3 (ext2 for /boot) || No, only Jaunty || No ||
|| Asus M4A78T-E || Untested || Pass || ext4 || Karmic x64 + Vista x64 || No ||
|| Asus M4N82 Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Vista x64 (XP 64 failed to boot) || LVM ||
|| Asus M51SN || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows 7 || NO ||
|| Asus N10J || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic, Jaunty, Vista || NO ||
|| Asus !P4P800-E Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Asus P5B || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic || No ||
|| Asus P5B || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty 64bit, Windows 7 RC 64 bit || No ||
|| Asus P5B-Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext3, ext4 || Jaunty 64bit, Windows 7 RC 64 bit || LVM ||
|| Asus P5B-Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic 64bit, Windows 7 RTM 64 bit, windows XP || NO ||
|| Asus P5GD2-Basic || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, XP || No ||
|| Asus P5LD2 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic, Windows Vista ||  ||
|| Asus P5K || PASS || PASS || ext3 mounted as ext4 || Karmic, XP || encrypted root ||
|| Asus P5K-E || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || Jaunty || No ||
|| Asus P5K-E Wifi-AP || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Koala + Windows XP || No ||
|| Asus P5N-E SLI || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty, Intrepid, Debian Lenny, Windows XP || No ||
|| Asus P5Q-E (AHCI) Intel Q955 || PASS || UNTESTED || jfs || Jaunty, Win7 RC || No ||
|| Asus P5Q Deluxe || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Karmic + Win7 RC ||
|| Asus P5WDG2 WS pro || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Karmic + Win7 RC ||
|| Asus P6T Deluxe V2 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Asus U3S || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic, Vista Ultimate ||
|| Asus Z7000 (Notebook) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Asus Z8PE-D12X Board || PASS || PASS || ext4/2TB+ || UNTESTED || UNTESTED ||
|| ATX QDI KinetiZ 7E || See Dual-Boot || PASS || ext3 || Multiple OS on hd0 and hd1<<FootNote(Karmic, XP, Hardy on HD0, Karmic, NetBSD on hd1, GRUB on HD0 and HD1. Using GRUB on HD1 (BIOS boot from HD1), NetBSD must be specified as on HD0 or boot fails whether using chainloader (expected) or multiboot (not expected by me at least). It seems only the linux command munges the HD order, though it's very thinly documented.)>>  || No ||
|| BenQ Joybook 5000 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty + WinXP || No ||
|| Clevo TN120R || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic  || No ||
|| Compal JHL90 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty + Arch || No ||
|| Compaq Deskpro EN SFF 667 || PASS || PASS || reiserfs || No, Jaunty 9.04 Server || No ||
|| Compaq Evo D500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic ||
|| Compaq FL90 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + WinXP ||
|| HP Compaq dc7100 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Debian ||
|| HP Compaq dc7800 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes. Karmic Koala and Windows 7 RC ||
|| Compaq Presario 2100 (2104US) || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || UNTESTED ||
|| Compaq Presario 2158 || PARTIAL || PARTIAL<<FootNote(In both cases (chainloaded or native, GRUB 2 menu loads, but it's impossible to select which menu entry to boot. Cursor is stuck, can't be moved across the entries)>> || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty+Windows || No ||
|| Compaq Presario C700 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows 7 RC ||
|| Compaq Presario CQ50 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || vista ||
|| Compaq Presario CQ60 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || vista ||
|| Compaq Presario F700 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Compaq Presario F761US || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||  ||
|| Compaq Presario SR1000|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || No||
|| Compaq Presario SR1135CL || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows XP || No ||
|| Compaq Presario SR1940IL || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Compaq Presario SR2129|| PASS || PASS<<FootNote(Needed to use "sudo grub-install /dev/sdb" to prevent[[https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385021|LP #385021]])>> || ext4 || Vista + Recovery + Karmic || No ||
|| Compaq Presario V2000|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + WinXp ||
|| Compaq Presario V5120|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + WinXP ||
|| Dell Dimension E520n || PASS || PASS || ext3 || 9.04 + other Linux + no MSWin ||
|| Dell Dimension 1100 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Dimension 3100C || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Dell Dimension 4550 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || 9.10 beta + XP ||
|| Dell Dimension 4600i || PASS || PASS || ext4 || 9.04 and WinXP SP3 ||
|| Dell Dimension 8200 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || Yes, MD RAID 1 ||
|| Dell Dimension 8400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + XP || ||
|| Dell Inspiron 510M || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows 7 RC (labeled Vista) || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 530 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 530 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 530s with extra hard disk (BIOS boots from /dev/sdb)|| PASS || FAIL<<FootNote(after booting an Ubuntu CD, selecting "Boot from first hard drive", then going to rescue mode and running "grub-install /dev/sdb" this works again)>>/RECOVERED  || ext4 || Karmic + Vista || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 535 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1420 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1420 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1501 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || jaunty + karmic + vista ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1520 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || karmic + Windows 7 ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1521 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Vista ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1525 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1525 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || No  <<FootNote(Using Karmic + Vista)>>||
|| Dell Inspiron 1545 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 1720 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || kub-jaun + stud-jaun || No LVM ||
|| Dell Inspiron 5000 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron 6400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Vista ||
|| Dell Inspiron 6400 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Win7 ||
|| Dell Inspiron 640m || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || ||
|| Dell Inspiron 8600 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext3 || No || Yes LVM ||
|| Dell Inspiron 8600 || PASS || PASS || ext3 (ext2 for /boot) || Jaunty + Windows XP || ||
|| Dell Inspiron 9300 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Grub1 from Puppy Linux in MBR, Grub2 in partition boot record, Grub2 also boots WinXP (untested) || Yes LVM ||
|| Dell Inspiron 9400 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows XP || No ||
|| Dell Inspiron e1405|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Win 7 || No ||
|| Dell Mini 9 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Mini 10 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Mini 10v || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Latitude C610 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Dell Latitude C640 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D430 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + WindowsXP || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D520 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D600 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + WindowsXP || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D610 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + WindowsXP || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D620 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + WindowsXP || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D630 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows7 || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D630 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + WindowsXP || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D820 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D820 || PARTIAL<<FootNote(Grub2 couldn't figure out how to boot OSX86, and os-prober failed to detect opensolaris)>> || PARTIAL<<FootNote(Grub2 couldn't figure out how to boot OSX86, and os-prober failed to detect opensolaris)>>  || ext4 || Jaunty + OpenSolaris 2009/06 + Win XP + OSX86 || No ||
|| Dell Latitude D830 || PASS || PASS || reiserfs || Jaunty + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Dell Latitude E4300 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Latitude E5500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes: XP/NTFS + Linux/JFS || No ||
|| Dell Latitude E6400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes: Karmic + Vista ||
|| Dell Latitude E6500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell Latitude E6500 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell M1330 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell XPS Gen 5 [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/195118/|lshw]]|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell XPS M1210 || PASS || PASS || ext4 (/boot = ext3) || No || No ||
|| Dell XPS M1330 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell XPS M1530 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || LVM ||
|| Dell XPS M1530 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Windows Vista || MD ||
|| Dell XPS M1730 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes: Windows XP Pro, Jaunty || Manual Setup ||
|| Dell XPS M170 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic Koala, Windows XP Media Center || No(manual setup) ||
|| Dell Optiplex 740 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, XP ||
|| Dell Optiplex 755 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, XP || No ||
|| Dell Optiplex 760 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || ||
|| Dell Optiplex GX270 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Optiplex GX270 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes ||
|| Dell Optiplex GX620 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Precision 390n || PASS || UNTESTED || ext3 || No || Yes, LVM ||
|| Dell Precision 530 MT ([[https://launchpad.net/+hwdb/+submission/2e9cc7dd7f6a0801450c7123dd3cde23|hwdb]])|| PASS || PASS<<FootNote(Inadvertantly, the original groot was a chainloaded partition, but the upgrade script didn't honor that)>> || ext3 || Yes, win2k, hardy (jaunty partition is chainloaded from hardy's grub) || No ||
|| Dell Precision M90  || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes (Jaunty/Karmic) || No ||
|| Dell Precision T3400  || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Dell Precision T3400  || UNTESTED || FAILED TO INSTALL || ext3 || YES || dmraid 0 ||
|| Dell Precision T7500n || PASS || PASS || ext4 || NO || NO ||
|| Dell Studio 1535 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Studio 1536 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + WinXP || No ||
|| Dell Studio 1537 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Studio 1537 || PASS || PASS || ext2 || Jaunty + Windows Vista ||
|| Dell Studio 1537 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + Windows Vista ||
|| Dell Studio 1555 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows 7|| No ||
|| Dell Studio 14xx || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Studio 1735 || PASS || PASS <<FootNote(but console scrolling is very slow - GPU is a Mobility Radeon HD 3650)>> || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell Studio 540 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Dell Studio XPS 1340 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Studio XPS 1340 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Dell Recovery, Vista, Jaunty || No ||
|| Dell Studio XPS 16xx || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Dell Studio Studio Slim|| FAIL || PASS (albeit installed on other drive than expected) || ext4 || YES, ludicrous setup, Vista and Fedora and Ubuntu between two drives, /boot for Ubuntu on the opposite drive || Lots of LVM ||
|| Dell Vostro 1500 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Dell Vostro 1710 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || 7xLinux, Vista || No ||
|| Dell Vostro 1720 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic, Vista || No ||
|| Dell Vostro 2200 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Dell XPS M1330 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Vista || No ||
|| Dell XPS M1530 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| DNUK Deskcube D500 amd64 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty upgraded to Karmic || md=Raid1             The upgrades to grub-1.97~beta4-1ubuntu2 and dmraid-1.0.0.rc15-11ubuntu3 fixed this double fail for me. ||
|| DNUK Deskcube D500 amd64 || n/a || PASS || ext4 || Karmic beta install || None ||
|| eMachines E725 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| eMachines ET1161-03 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Vista || No ||
|| Foxconn A7GM-S || PASS || PASS || ext4 || (Karmic Koala) + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pi 1505 || PASS || PASS || ext3 (reiserfs on /boot) || Jaunty + Windows Vista || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Pi1505 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Karmic, XP || ? ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Pi2515 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Pa3553 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes. Jaunty and Windows Vista ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo V5505 || PASS || PASS || ext3, ext4 || Yes Jaunty/Solaris/MacOS X 10.6 || Encrypted LVM, LVM ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo p5600 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes. Jaunty/WinXP SP3 || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xa 3530 || PASS || PASS || ext3, ext4 || Jaunty, Karmic + Windows 7 || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 2428 || PASS || PASS || reiserfs (ext2 for /boot) || Windows XP || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V3505 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, Debian Lenny || No ||
|| Fujitsu Lifebook E8210 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Windows XP || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P1620 || PASS || ext3 || Karmic and Jaunty || Karmic LVM ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P7010 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Windows XP + Karmic || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7010 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Windows XP || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook T4215 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic D1214 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Gateway ML6720 || PASS || PASS || EXT4 (EXT2 for /boot) || Windows XP + Karmic || No ||
|| Gigabyte Nforce4 SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Windows XP ||
|| Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-DS2H || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty and Windows 7 RC || No ||
|| Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty and WindowsXP || No ||
|| Gigabyte AMD 790GX MA790GP-DS4H || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| HP 530 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes. Jaunty and Windows 7 RC || No ||
|| HP Compaq Evo N800v || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| HP Compaq 6710b || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty + Windows 7 RC || No ||
|| HP Compaq 6715s || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic + Windows XP + FreeDOS || No ||
|| HP Compaq 6730b || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| HP Compaq 6730s || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes Karmic + Fedora 12 || No ||
|| HP Compaq 6820s || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes. Jaunty and Windows 7 RC1 || No ||
|| HP Compaq 8510p || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes. Jaunty and Windows XP ||
|| HP Compaq 8710p || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| HP Compaq tc4200 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty + XP || No ||
|| HP Compaq nc6320 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| HP Compaq nc6120 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext3 || Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| HP Compaq nw8440 || UNTESTED || PASS<<FootNote(heavily modified Grub2, recently synced with  	1.96+20090725-1ubuntu1, works flawlessly; console scrolling is very slow on 1280*800 and higher)>> || ext2,ext3,ext4,reiser || Jaunty, Xp and a custom Finnix || Yes, cryptsetup LUKS ||
|| HP Compaq nx6325 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes. Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| HP Compaq nx7300 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| HP !EliteBook 6930p|| UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || Yes. Ubuntu 9.10 + Windows XP SP3 + Windows 7 || No ||
|| HP Laptop 6910p||PASS||PASS||ext4||Yes. Jaunty and Jaunty||
|| HP Laptop 8730w||PASS||PASS||ext3||Yes. Jaunty and Windows XP||
|| HP DV4T || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| HP DV5 1153EO || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| HP DV6000t CTO || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Windows 7 Beta, 8.04 Hardy on other partition || No ||
|| HP DV6748us || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Karmic Koala and Windows XP || No ||
|| HP DV6809wm || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes: Jaunty & Vista ||
|| HP DX2200 Microtower || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| HP Pavilion a6040.nl (GC523AA) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Vista || No ||
|| HP Mini (1035NR) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| HP Mini (2133) || PASS || PASS || ext3, ext4 || Yes: Karmic, Jaunty, Vista, XP || No ||
|| HP Pavilion D4595.se || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes : 64-bit Jaunty, 32-bit Windows Server 2008 and Vista Business || <<FootNote(Upgraded from Jaunty without having to change «root» to «uuid» as per the instructions above. Edited GRUB2 menu (removed superfluous entries) after upgrading by following instructions in the GRUB2 Wiki.)>> || No ||
|| HP Pavilion dv6607nr || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| HP Pavilion dv6635el || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty and Windows Vista || No ||
|| HP Pavilion dv6653eo || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic and Windows Vista || No ||
|| HP Pavlion dv9398 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes : 64-bit Jaunty, 32-bit Vista Business || <<FootNote(Upgraded from Jaunty without having to change «root» to «uuid» as per the instructions above. Edited GRUB2 menu (removed superfluous entries) after upgrading by following instructions in the GRUB2 Wiki.)>> || No ||
|| HP Pavilion 9700 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Vista || No ||
|| HP Pavilion a6040.nl (GC523AA) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Vista || No ||
|| HP Pavilion tx2690eo, [[http://heh.fi/hw/hapatus.20090613.lshw|lshw]], [[http://heh.fi/hw/hapatus.20090613.dmesg.karmic|dmesg]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| HP Proliant DL380 Servers with cciss controller || FAIL || FAIL || ext3 || No || No || Due to the following debian bugs in grub-mkdevicemap #479056 #479735 in Hardy (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu2) ||
|| HP SlimLine s3315.fr || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| HP SlimLine s3315.fr || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes : Jaunty / Vista || No ||
|| HP TX1000 GA647UA || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty, Vista || No ||
|| HP TX1350et|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic Alpha2, Windows 7 RC||
|| IBM Netfinity 5600 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || Root on LVM ||
|| IBM NetVista A40 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| IBM Thinkcentre A50 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| iDeq N1 SFF system (nForce4 C51 Ge6100/410), [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/203765/|lshw]] || LILO<<FootNote(installed on partition boot sector, chainloaded from LILO (boot files not on LVM for this test.) One entry has kernel command line extracted incorrectly from lilo.conf: [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/392315|LP: #392315]], otherwise PASS.)>> || PASS<<FootNote([[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/392315|LP: #392315]], again, otherwise OK, boot files on LVM this time)>>|| ext3 || Yes, karmic + hardy || LVM ||
|| Intel Core 2 DP35DP self-build (Intel BIOS) || PASS || FAIL || ext4 || Yes - 9.04 & Windows XP || No ||
|| Intel Core 2 Quad self-build (based on a ASUS P5K) [kalon33] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, with Win7 RC, Jaunty and Karmic alpha ||
|| Intel D945GNT || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Intel D915PCY || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, with Jaunty and Win7 RC ||
|| Intel DG965WH (DIY) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, Windows XP || No ||
|| Intel DP45SG || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, Vista, Windows 7 RC || No ||
|| Intel Quad Core self-build (AMI BIOS) [lana] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Intel Quad Core self-build (AMI BIOS) [chloe] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Intel DQ35JO || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || root on LVM on md RAID1 ||
|| Intel BOXDQ45CB || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, Win7 || No ||
|| Intel D975XBX2 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Koala || No ||
|| Kohjinsha SC3WB06GH || FAIL<<FootNote(Booting with standalone Grub Legacy [[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1058956|fails]], hence chainloading also fails)>> || PASS || ext3 || Vista + Recovery + Jaunty + Hardy || No ||
|| Kohjinsha SH6WP10A || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo 3000 N100 (0768) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo 3000 N100 (0768) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Windows XP Home Edition (SP3)<<FootNote(After fresh install the entry for Windows XP wasn't displayed (also the one for the vista installation that comes with the laptop). However, after running `sudo update-grub2` the entries showed on the next reboot. See [[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/grub2/+bug/402795|LP: #402795]] for more details.)>> ||
|| Lenovo 3000 N200 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Lenovo 3000 V100 || Untested || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Lenovo G530 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo Ideapad S10 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Lenovo Ideapad Y530 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo R61 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty + Win Vista || No ||
|| Lenovo R61i || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty + Win Vista || No ||
|| Lenovo T43p || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic + Win Vista || No ||
|| Lenovo T60 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty + WinXP Pro ||
|| Lenovo T61 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Lenovo T61 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo T61 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || No || encrypted LVM ||
|| Lenovo T61 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty, Windows Xp ||
|| Lenovo T61, BIOS 7LETB0WW/2.10 (mdz) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Lenovo T61p || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Lenovo T400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Lenovo T400 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic, Windows XP || No ||
|| Lenovo R500 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Triple, Karmic + Vista +OSX86 || No ||
|| Lenovo T500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty, Windows XP || No ||
|| Lenovo T500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No, Karmik || No ||
|| Lenovo W500 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || ||
|| Lenovo X200 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Lenovo X200s || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || Karmic, Jaunty, Squeeze || root (and /boot) on LVM ||
|| Lenovo X200s || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty || No ||
|| Lenovo X301 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Jaunty || No ||
|| Lenovo Y410 || PASS ||PASS ||ext4 || Yes; Karmic,Windows Vista || No ||
|| LG S1 Express Dual || PASS || PASS || ReiserFS 3 || Yes, Karmic, Windows XP ||
|| Medion MD96640 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic, Vista || No ||
|| Micron TREK2 (PIII on Intel440 chipset) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || Root on LVM ||
|| MSI EX600 laptop Intel core2duo on PM965 chipset || PASS || PASS || ext4 || no, karmic || no ||
|| MSI K8MM-V (Sempron 64-bit, VIA K8M800-CE, socket 754) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Windows XP || no ||
|| MSI K7N2 Delta 2 Platinum Skt A || See Dual-Boot || PASS || ext3 || Multiple OS on hd0 and hd1<<FootNote(See footnote for ATX QDI KinetZ.)>> || No ||
|| MSI K9NGM2-FID AM2 3800+|| PASS || PASS || ext4 || NO || NO ||
|| MSI P35 Platinum || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic.a1 + Jaunty ||
|| MSI Wind U100 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Intrepid, Jaunty || root on LVM ||
|| MSI Wind U100 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Karmic, XP || no ||
|| MSI Wind U100 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic, XP || no ||
|| MSI Wind U100 || PASS || PASS <<FootNote(apart from these: [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/376879|376879]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/386789|386789]], [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/216178|216178]] and [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/388135|388135]])>> || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty, XP, Windows 7 (RC), OS X 10.5.5  || no ||
|| MSI Wind U90x || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty, SLES 10 || no ||
|| MSI Wind nettop PC 100 ([[https://launchpad.net/+hwdb/+submission/2b2ec95fba67c02cc55087b47b229c98|hwdb]]) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, jaunty + 2nd jaunty || root on LVM ||
|| Nexoc Osiris S615 II || PASS || PASS || ext3 || - || NO ||
|| Novatech Nomad (rebranded Uniwill M30EI0) || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || root on LVM ||
|| PackardBell EasyNote MX52b || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty, Vista SE || ? ||
|| PackardBell EasyNote MX36  || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Karmic Koala, Vista SE || no ||
|| PackardBell iStart 2380 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Windows XP ||  ||
|| PackardBell iDesign 7155 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes (Jaunty, XP) || No ||
|| Parallels Desktop 4.0.3844 for Mac || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || ? ||
|| Point of View mobii NB9010 || UNTESTED || PASS || xfs (/boot = ext3) || Karmic UNR & WinXP || No ||
|| Samsung N110 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty UNR, Windows XP, Windows Recovery || No ||
|| Samsung NC10|| PASS || PASS || ext4     || Yes, Jaunty UNR, Windows XP Home, || No ||
|| Samsung X65 || PASS || PASS || reiserfs || No || No ||
|| Sapphire PE-AM2RS690HD motherboard c/w AMD 3800+ || PASS || PASS<<FootNote(Inadvertantly, the original groot was a chainloaded partition, but the upgrade script didn't honor that)>> || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Self-built, [[http://heh.fi/hw/luotain.20090528.lshw|lshw]], [[http://heh.fi/hw/luotain.20090528.dmesg.jaunty|dmesg]] || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Self-built [Hew], [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/189955/|lshw]], [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/189956/|dmesg]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Self-built, I7 920-Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P || PASS || PASS || ext4 and ext3 ||YES/NO - 5 linux installs-wrong ID attached to some installs ||
|| Self-built, [[http://me.delodder.be/hw/lshw20090609.txt|lshw]], [[http://me.delodder.be/hw/dmesg20090609.txt|dmesg]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty and Windows Vista || No ||
|| Self-built, [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/191850/|lshw]] || PASS || PASS || ext3 || NO || NO ||
|| Self-built, [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/192699/|lshw]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Jaunty & Windows 2000 <<FootNote(Only worked with Karmic's grub2 (becuase of lack of devicemap in jaunty), and I had to put in the 'devicemap' command, it wasn't done by os-prober)>> || NO ||
|| Self-built, Abit IC7 mobo || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Self-built, Abit SG-95 mobo || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Self-built, ASUS A7V8X-X mobo || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| Self-built, ASUS A8N-SLI mobo || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Self-built, ASUS M2N-E || PASS || PASS || ext4 || vista ||
|| Self built, ASUS P5K mobo || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Yes, Karmic, Windows 7RC || No ||
|| Self-built, Gigabyte GA-M55S-S3 mobo || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 (/boot: ext3) || YES: Jaunty / Windows XP || No ||
|| Self-built, Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H mobo || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 (/boot: ext4) || No || Yes (root: on LVM over RAID10 MD; boot: on RAID1 MD) ||
|| Self-built, MSI !K9A2 CF mobo || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Yes, Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| Self-built, MSI K8Neo4 [[http://pastebin.com/f4427a1ee|lshw]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Windows XP , Ubuntu Jaunty || No ||
|| Self-built, MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R, [[http://paste.ubuntu.com/274242|lshw]] || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Shuttle SG33 ([[https://launchpad.net/+hwdb/+submission/ac8c28b7f2a8959ccf5c376401bf2452|hwdb entry]])|| PASS || PASS || ext3 || yes, hardy and intrepid || No ||
|| Sony Vaio PCG-6N1M || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Sony Vaio VGN-FE31H || PASS || PASS || ext3 and ext4 || Yes : jaunty(ext3) + karmic(ext4) || -- ||
|| Sony Vaio VGN-FW21J || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3  || Yes : karmic(amd64)(ext3) + windows7(64bit) + notebook recovery partition(32bit) || -- ||
|| Sony Vaio VGN-NS11M || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Sony Vaio VGN-T140P || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No: Karmic only || -- ||
|| Sony Vaio VGN-TZ27GN || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty and XP || -- ||
|| Thinkpad I1400|| UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad T23, [[http://heh.fi/hw/virhe.20090528.lshw|lshw]], [[http://heh.fi/hw/virhe.20090528.dmesg.karmic|dmesg]] || PASS || PASS || ext3, later ext4 || No || No ||
|| Thinkpad T30 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad T42P || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad X301 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad R50e || PASS || PASS || ext4 and ext3|| Jaunty, Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| Thinkpad R51 || PASS || PASS || ext3 (Karmic) || No ||
|| Thinkpad R51 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || lvm ||
|| Thinkpad R61 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 (Karmic) || No ||
|| Thinkpad R61 || PASS || PASS || ext4 (Karmic) || No ||
|| Thinkpad T60 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad T60 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext4 || Root on LVM ||
|| Thinkpad T60 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| Thinkpad X31 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad X40 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Thinkpad X60 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Thinkpad X61 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Factory Vista repair/rescue, WinXP ||
|| Thinkpad X61T || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| Thinkpad X61s || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 || No ||
|| Thinkpad X300 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Thinkpad Z61m || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || LVM ||
|| Toshiba A215-S4697 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Toshiba L40-14G || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty and Vista ||
|| Toshiba nb100-12a|| PASS || PASS || ext4|| karmic+xp ||No||
|| Toshiba NB205-N210|| PASS || PASS || ext3 || Jaunty, Karmic, & XP || No ||
|| Toshiba p10-832|| PASS || PASS || ext4|| No ||No||
|| Toshiba Portege M400 || PASS || PASS || ext4|| No || ||
|| Toshiba Portege R600 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3|| Jaunty and Windows XP || No ||
|| Toshiba Satellite 2455-S305 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| Toshiba Satellite M60-126 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Windows XP, Karmic || No ||
|| Toshiba U200 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Windows XP || No ||
|| Toshiba U400 || PASS || PASS || ext3 (ext2 for /boot) || Windows Vista || No ||
|| Toshiba Tecra A9 [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ToshibaTecraA9|Tecra A9]] || PASS || PASS || reiserfs || Yes (Jaunty+Vista))  || No  ||
|| Toshiba Tecra M7 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || Windows 7 and Jaunty || No ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || ext2 || No ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || ext3 || Vista ||
|| VirtualBox || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No || Yes ||
|| VirtualBox || UNTESTED || PASS for Karmic (both), but FAIL for WinXP (booting starts but crashes after 1 second) || ext4 || Windows XP 32 bit (disk1), Karmic 64 bit (disk2), Karmic 32 bit (disk3) || NO ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || jfs || No ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || reiserfs || No ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || xfs || No ||
|| VirtualBox || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No ||
|| VirtualBox || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No || No ||
|| VirtualBox 64 bit || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| VMWare ESX 3.5 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || root on LVM ||
|| VMWare ESXi 3.5 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || no ||
|| VMWare ESXi 4.0 || PASS || PASS || ext3 || No || no ||
|| VMWare Fusion 2.0.4 || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No <<FootNote(Using a normal intrepid install and thus grub-legacy i used to be able to boot into the same filesytem natively and in vmware fusion on my macbook. However with grub2 installed it cannot find its config or modules either in vmware or native depending in wich environment dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc was runned last. So I can now boot only one of the two.)>>|| No ||
|| VMWare Workstation 6.5 || UNTESTED || PASS || ext3 || No ||
|| XBook Eruptio DL70 (Compal) || PASS || PASS || ext4 || No || No ||
|| Xps1710 || PASS || UNTESTED || ext4 || No ||
|| Zepto Znote 6214W || PASS || PASS || ext4 || XP, Win 7 RC || No ||

== Comments ==

(AlexeyBalmashnov) Shall there be note on how to put into table Do-It-Yourself system? Like, name it "DIY, MB Producer, MB Model" (Example: DIY Intel DG965WH); Since MB seems to be the most relevant piece of information here?

(Tim Miller Dyck) As of the grub2 package in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 4 (1.96+20090725-1ubuntu2), Grub2 does not support booting from software RAID devices with metadata 1.0 or later superblocks. Only the default metadata 0.9 works (see [[http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid@vger.kernel.org/msg09618.html]]).

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