GRUB2 can't boot Linux on HP Dragonfly G2
Bug #1939988 reported by
RussianNeuroMancer
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grub2 (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Hello!
On HP Dragonfly G2 GRUB2 can not boot Linux. This issue is not reproducible with rEFInd or Fedora's GRUB2 (that launch vmlinuz as efi executable) but reproducible with Ubuntu 20.04.1, 21.04 and 21.10.
After selection kernel in GRUB2 list there is just black screen, also reading from flash stop right there (judging by led on flash drive). Removing quiet splash, adding loglevel=10 and/or earlycon=efifb doesn't change anything, so it's really seems like kernel can not even start boot process.
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This issue affects me as well on the HP Elite Dragonfly G2. It's really awful, I can't even start the boot process on a Ubuntu live installer. It doesn't seem to matter how I format the USB drive either. I have Fedora 34 installed but I cannot boot Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, 21.04, or 21.10 at all. When selecting an entry with GRUB on a Ubuntu live key, I just get a black screen with a blinking white cursor at the top. What could be the problem? I regret buying this machine immensely, it has issues already with charging and wifi. It seems that the firmware won't allow us to boot Ubuntu or Debian or really any non-Fedora/RHEL distribution. On Parted Magic, I get an "out of memory" error immediately and cannot boot the image. I think this is also what is happening with the Ubuntu live image. Is the firmware reporting available memory incorrectly when attempting to boot or blocking initramfs over a certain size? Is it possible to fix this? Honestly I'm so upset at HP for introducing firmware bugs like this. No one in their right mind would design system firmware like this to prevent the booting of Linux.