Hi mkukri, I'm using an HP Elitebook 8760W, released in 2011. It's great fast, powerful, two internal SATA slots, very large RAM, and carbon footprint largely amortized by now. And it's i7 is still largely fast and powerful enough for most usages, and I don't see the need for buying a new machine, and I would instantly recommend a similar refurbished machine over brand new cheap ones. Heck, it was a Rolls Royce in 2011! But its UEFI BIOS is a prototype (it warns / displays so and can't be fixed), not reliable, and hackable by rootkits and other malwares.
OTOH, it works and boots fine with Grub native drivers, and I haven't had any problem since I figured the default 32-bit BIOS drivers out (april 2022), fixed the problem and posted this message. The Grub config wasn't altered through OS and/or Grub updates / upgrades, not even upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04, so I guess I'm safe enough. Too bad that Grub doesn't autodetect and autofix the BIOS-Grub / BIOS driver on disks > 2TiB though, since that's a guaranteed failure. While using native drivers is only a hazard - and not even one as far as I'm concerned! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970236 Title: Grub2 bios-install defaults to BIOS disk drivers, may break large disk boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1970236/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
