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Bootloader Test Day

Date 2021-04-12 to 2021-04-13
Time all day

Website QA/Test Days
IRC #fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list test


Can't make the date?
If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?[edit]

This Test Day will focus on testing the new shim 15.4 and GRUB 2.06. This is an extremely important test day as the newly signed shim needs testing. Grub also gets an update and we would like to ensure that bootloaders works as intended.

Who's available[edit]

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion:

You can chat with us on IRC. See the infobox on top of the page to learn the right IRC channel.

Prerequisite for Test Day[edit]

  • Recommended: Media (USB flash drive, SD Card, or optical) imaged with any Fedora 32, 33, or 34 edition or spin ISO image, in case rescue is necessary.
  • x86_64 computers with UEFI firmware:
    • Media imaged with one of the special test day ISO images.
    • You do not need to have Fedora installed.
    • You do not need to test both images. Most folks will prefer the smaller netinstall image.
  • All other computers, including x86_64 with BIOS firmware, and arm/aarch64:
    • Either Fedora 33 or 34 installed and fully updated.

How to test?[edit]

There are prerequisites for this test day that you should gather before getting started:

  • Identify whether the firmware type for your computer is EFI/UEFI or BIOS by executing the following on terminal.
[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo UEFI || echo BIOS
mokutil --sb-state
  • Create an rescue USB stick, just in case.

Visit the results page and click on the column title links that correspond to your systems' firmware type. Column titles are links to a specific test case. Follow the instructions there, then enter your results by clicking the Enter result button for that test.

Please also try to experiment and explore and perform tasks not mentioned in any of the pre-defined test cases.

Reporting bugs[edit]

All bugs should be reported into Bugzilla, in most cases against the Grub component. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask us on IRC (see instructions above).

Test Results[edit]

Basic[edit]

User Profile BIOS UEFI References
0031 Lilith
Pass pass
Just-me Acer Aspire XC-330
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Boots with either secure boot enabled or disabled.
alanfed Dell Latitude E6520
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
  1. This system doesn't support Secure Boot
alciregi Intel NUC 7i5BNH
Pass pass
alciregi Lenovo V330-15IKB Type 81AX
Pass pass
alciregi Lenovo X1 Crabon gen 8
Pass pass
alciregi Toshiba Tecra A40-D
Pass pass
bittin HP 655
Pass pass
Pass pass
Warning warn
[1]
  1. Some small GNOME 40 and Anaconda bugs
bittin HP 6910p
Pass pass
Pass pass
bklepzig Dell XPS 13
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Secure boot is disabled.
cmurf x86_64, hp spectre
Pass pass
[1]
  1. RHBZ #1948432 Boots whether SB enabled/disabled
cmurf x86_64, intel nuc
Pass pass
copperi F34 32Gb Ryzen 7 3700x NVIDIA GP106GL [Quadro P2200] X11
Pass pass
danniel Lenovo ideapad s145 i7 8G
Pass pass
drawde111 ThinkPad X230
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Secure Boot enabled
geraldosimiao Acer Aspire V3-571 v: V2.11
Fail fail
[1]
  1. Sorry for the first result, I haven't properly enabled secureboot. First result was without SB. Now I tested correctly with SB and it didn't booted. shim-x64-15.4-3.x86_64
geraldosimiao Acer Aspire V3-571 v: V2.11 CPU: Quad Core Intel Core i7-3632QM
Pass pass
jbastian Lenovo T490s
Pass pass
[1]
  1. shim-15-8 + grub-2.06~rc1-3
jpbn asuspro intel Linux Fedora 34
Pass pass
[1]
  1. already installed with test packages
jpbn hp dual boot win 10 fedora34
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Package shim-x64-15.4-3.x86_64 is already installed.
kparal Thinkpad T480s, UEFI, SB on
Pass pass
kparal a desktop with motherboard Gigabyte Z87-D3HP, UEFI, SB off
Pass pass
lnie lenovo p1 SB off
Pass pass
lnie thinkpad T490s SB on
Pass pass
lruzicka Lenovo ThinkPad T460s
Pass pass
lruzicka Lenovo ThinkPad T580
Pass pass
lruzicka https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=a0ff0f4cf3
Pass pass
mythcat https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=7b4c090391
Pass pass
Pass pass
norbertj Old BIOS based PC with Fedora 33
Pass pass
norbertj netinst testday image on 1. desktop PC with mobo Asus Prime B450M-A and 2. Ideapad V110-15ISK
Pass pass
[1]
  1. Tested with SB enabled as well as disabled
pulkit Lenovo G50-80
Pass pass
[1]
  1. On uefi works perfectly, with both secure boot enabled as well as disabled
pulkit Pulkit Sukhija
Pass pass
[1]
  1. On uefi it works perfectly, with both secure boot enabled as well as disabled
ritchierankin Late 2012 mac mini running macOS 10.14.6 with Fedora 34 running inside of VMWare Fusion 11.0.2
Pass pass
ritchierankin Late 2012 mac mini running macOS 10.14.6 with Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25-1.3.iso running inside of VMWare Fusion 11.0.2
Pass pass
royboy626 Zbox Nvidia based - C79 [ION] (rev b1); MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
Pass pass
royboy626red Dell Inspiron 1545n - Pentium Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz
Pass pass
sampsonf Dell Vostro 3350
Fail fail
[1]
  1. Boot stopped with Message in the Bottom (just above the green line) "Pane is dead (signal 7, Tue Apr 20 16:20:9 2021)
scezar Slimbook One v1
Fail fail
[1]
  1. This computer does not support using UEFI without Secure Boot.
scorreia ASUS FX53VD
Pass pass
[1]
  1. UEFI - tested with SB disabled / Platform in setup mode (didn´t manage to enable SB in this laptop)
scorreia ASUS Zenbook UX305FA
Pass pass
[1]
  1. UEFI - tested with both SB enabled and disabled
sp6ina Huawei Matebook 14 2020 AMD
Pass pass
su-ns Lenovo ThinkPad X230, Fedora 34
Pass pass
su-ns Lenovo ThinkPad X240, SB enabled
Pass pass
sumantrom T580
Pass pass
thunderbirdtr Asus TUF Pro motherboard custom desktop build (Desktop)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. SB is not enabled (can be enabled)
thunderbirdtr Beaglebone Black
Pass pass
[1]
  1. SB is not available
thunderbirdtr Clevo based custom OEM Laptop (AMI Bios)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. SB is not enabled (can be enabled)
thunderbirdtr Clevo based custom OEM Laptop(2014 model laptop) (AMI Bios)
Pass pass
Pass pass
[1]
  1. BIOS/UEFI possible and UEFI enabled (SB is possible)
thunderbirdtr Lenovo Thinkpad P53
Pass pass
[1]
  1. UEFI/SB Enabled
thunderbirdtr Nvidia Jetson Nano (4GB)
Pass pass
[1]
  1. No SB