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There is a desire always to ship the latest and greatest of any product; boot loaders included. However upgrading a bootloader is at best frightening and risky. The primary bootloader for x86 platforms is currently grub. That however has not been updated since about 2006 and is getting long in the tooth. It also does not support newer BIOS forms like EFI and it never will.
There is a replacement for grub, which has been claiming to be the replacement for it for some years (about 6 at least), grub2. Switching to this would bring support for newer systems, internationalisation, updates and bug fixes etc.
So it's clear we would like to switch the default bootloader to grub2. It makes sense, it's the way forward, why do we not just do it? Well, does grub2 support every single machine out there? All those odd broken machines that grub supports? We do not know. That's where this page comes in.
Testing grub2
If you are running Jaunty Jackalope or later, grub2 can be installed in parallel with, and as a chainloaded sub-bootloader of, your existing grub installation. This allows you to boot actually with grub and then select grub2 from the menu. Then you can confirm grub2 works correctly before electing to switch to it formally.
Even if you are only able to test in chainloaded mode that would give us some information as to the viability of grub2.
Before you Test
Though it is unlikely you will have any issues we would always recommend taking precautions before attempting a bootloader update. It is recommended that you have an up to date backup of your system before attempting this (you have backups right?). It is also recommended that you have a bootable CD or a bootable USB disk available should you be unable to boot following 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 allow one to chain load grub2 to allow one to test to see if grub2 works on your machine. At this stage, the original grub is still the main boot loader and keeps the original boot menu items.
Note: In Jaunty (but not Karmic), there was a bug in the grub2 installer (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 one can boot from grub2 successfully, one can then install grub2 onto the system as the main boot loader using the command:
sudo upgrade-from-grub-legacy
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://people.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 (assuming it appears as block device /dev/sdb, do the following):
sudo dd if=bootable-grub2-2.5GB.img of=/dev/sdb
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
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?) |
Abaco Primo |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
Acer Aspire 3055 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Acer Aspire 4530-5627 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Karmic + Windows 7 (pre RC) |
|
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 5515 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Windows 7RC |
No |
Acer Aspire 5735 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Jaunty + Windows 7RC |
|
Acer Aspire 5920 |
PASS |
PASS 1 |
ext4 |
Ubuntu Jaunty, Windows Vista |
|
Acer Aspire 5930G |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, Jaunty, Windows Vista |
|
Acer Aspire One |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Karmic + Windows 7 + Haiku |
|
Acer Aspire One |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Windows 7 + Moblin2 |
|
Acer Extensa 5620Z |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Windows XP |
|
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 8106wlmi |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Jaunty + Windows 7 |
No |
Apple Macbook 2.1 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
Apple Macbook 4.1 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
Apple Macbook 5.1 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Apple MacbookPro 4.1 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No (MacOSX with Refit, not GRUB) |
|
Asrock 775 Dual VSTA home built |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
Asus A6Ja |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty |
No |
Asus A8Sc |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Karmic + Gentoo |
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 1000HE |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
jaunty + winXP + Win recovery |
|
Asus F3Jc |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Karmic + Windows XP |
No |
Asus F9F |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Win Vista |
NO |
Asus M2A-VM |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty |
LVM |
Asus M4N82 Deluxe |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Vista x64 (XP 64 failed to boot) |
LVM |
Asus P5GD2-Basic |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Jaunty, XP |
No |
Asus P5K-E |
PASS |
UNTESTED |
ext4 |
Jaunty |
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 P6T Deluxe V2 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Asus Z7000 (Notebook) |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
BenQ Joybook 5000 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, Jaunty + WinXP |
No |
Compaq FL90 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Jaunty + WinXP |
|
Compaq DC7100 SFF |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + Debian |
|
Compaq Presario 2158 |
PARTIAL |
PARTIAL4 |
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 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 |
PASS5 |
ext4 |
Vista + Recovery + Karmic |
No |
Compaq Presario V2000 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Jaunty + WinXp |
|
Compaq Presario V5120 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Karmic + WinXP |
|
Dell Dimension 1100 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Dimension 3100C |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Dell Inspiron 510M |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Karmic + Windows 7 RC (labeled Vista) |
No |
Dell Inspiron 530 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Inspiron 530s with extra hard disk (BIOS boots from /dev/sdb) |
PASS |
FAIL6/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 1521 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Jaunty + Vista |
|
Dell Inspiron 1525 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
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 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 |
No |
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 C640 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
Dell Latitude D610 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Karmic + WindowsXP |
No |
Dell Latitude D820 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
Dell Latitude D820 |
PARTIAL7 |
PARTIAL7 |
ext4 |
Jaunty + OpenSolaris 2009/06 + Win XP + OSX86 |
No |
Dell Latitude E4300 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
Dell Latitude E6400 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Latitude E6500 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
Dell M1330 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell XPS Gen 5 lshw |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
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 Optiplex 740 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, XP |
|
Dell Optiplex 760 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Optiplex GX270 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Precision 390n |
PASS |
UNTESTED |
ext3 |
No |
Yes, LVM |
Dell Precision 530 MT (hwdb) |
PASS |
PASS8 |
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 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 14xx |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Dell Studio 1735 |
PASS |
PASS 9 |
ext4 |
No |
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 Vostro 1500 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Dell Vostro 1710 |
PASS |
UNTESTED |
ext4 |
7xLinux, Vista |
No |
Dell XPS M1330 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Vista |
No |
Dell XPS M1530 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext3 |
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 |
No |
Encrypted LVM |
Fujitsu-Siemens Esprimo p5600 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes. Jaunty/WinXP SP3 |
No |
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Xi 2428 |
PASS |
PASS |
reiserfs (ext2 for /boot) |
Windows XP |
No |
Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S7010 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Windows XP |
No |
Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic D1214 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
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 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 nc6320 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
HP Compaq nx6325 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes. Jaunty and Windows XP |
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 DV6809wm |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes: Jaunty & Vista |
|
HP Pavilion a6040.nl (GC523AA) |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, Vista |
No |
HP Mini (1035NR) |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
HP Pavilion 9700 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Vista |
No |
HP Pavilion a6040.nl (GC523AA) |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, Vista |
No |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
|
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 NetVista A40 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
IBM Thinkcentre A50 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
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 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 |
Lenovo 3000 N100 (0768) |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
|
Lenovo 3000 N200 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Lenovo 3000 V100 |
Untested |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Lenovo Ideapad S10 |
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
|
Lenovo Ideapad Y530 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
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 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 |
LG S1 Express Dual |
PASS |
PASS |
ReiserFS 3 |
Yes, Karmic, Windows XP |
|
MSI EX600 laptop Intel core2duo on PM965 chipset |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
no, karmic |
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 |
ext4 |
Yes, Karmic, XP |
no |
MSI Wind U100 |
PASS |
PASS 10 |
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 (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 iStart 2380 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Windows XP |
|
PackardBell EasyNote MX52b |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Jaunty, Vista SE |
? |
Parallels Desktop 4.0.3844 for Mac |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
? |
Samsung N110 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Yes, Jaunty UNR, Windows XP, Windows Recovery |
No |
Samsung X65 |
PASS |
PASS |
reiserfs |
No |
No |
Sapphire PE-AM2RS690HD motherboard c/w AMD 3800+ |
PASS |
PASS8 |
ext4 |
No |
No |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
No |
|
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
|
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Windows XP , Ubuntu Jaunty |
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 |
|
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Jaunty and Windows Vista |
No |
|
Self-built, lshw |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
NO |
NO |
Self-built ASUS M2N-E |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
vista |
|
Shuttle SG33 (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-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 |
-- |
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 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 X31 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
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 p10-832 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
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 Tecra A9 |
PASS |
PASS |
reiserfs |
Yes (Jaunty+Vista)) |
No |
Toshiba Tecra M7 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Windows 7 and Jaunty |
No |
PASS |
PASS |
ext2 |
No |
||
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
Vista |
||
UNTESTED |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
Yes |
|
PASS |
PASS |
jfs |
No |
||
PASS |
PASS |
reiserfs |
No |
||
PASS |
PASS |
xfs |
No |
||
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
||
VirtualBox 64 bit |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No |
No |
VMWare ESX 3.5 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext3 |
No |
root on LVM |
VMWare Fusion 2.0.4 |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
No 11 |
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 |
Self-built, lshw |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Jaunty & Windows 2000 12 |
NO |
Self built ASUS P5K mobo |
PASS |
PASS |
ext4 |
Yes, Karmic, Windows 7RC |
No |
Screen drawing UNUSABLY slow (NV8600M GT). 2secs for scrolling cmdline. GRUB_TERMINAL=console fixes it (1)
not really a problem because of refit we only need to boot linux (2)
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. (3)
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 (4)
Needed to use "sudo grub-install /dev/sdb" to preventLP #385021 (5)
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 (6)
Grub2 couldn't figure out how to boot OSX86, and os-prober failed to detect opensolaris (7 8)
Inadvertantly, the original groot was a chainloaded partition, but the upgrade script didn't honor that (9 10)
but console scrolling is very slow - GPU is a Mobility Radeon HD 3650 (11)
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. (13)
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 (14)
KernelTeam/Grub2Testing (last edited 2010-07-21 12:55:26 by 193)