Problems with specific hardware? Please report it! If you can't boot the grml system, don't despair! The grml team is ready to help you! We are especially interested in hearing about startup problems, because in general they don't happen to only one person. We've either already heard about your particular problem and can dispense a quick fix, or we would like to hear about it and work through it with you, and the next user who comes up with the same problem will profit from your experience!
If you experience lockups or other hardware failures, disable buggy APIC interrupt routing:
grml noapic nolapic
Disable ACPI for PCI maps (some HP servers and Via-based machines):
grml pci=noacpi
Deactivate SMP-kernel and use only one processor:
grml nosmp
Disable framebuffer if you get a black/blank screen or notice problems with your display via:
grml video=ofonly
… or just:
nofb
Take a look at the cheatcodes as well.
Acer Aspire 1690
Acer Aspire 1510
Acer TravelMate290
Compaq DL380 G1
Dell Inspiron 510m
Dell inspiron 3200, and Dell OptiPlex GX1p
Thinkpads with 3COM NICs
Thinkpad X31
Thinkpad L512 with Thinkpad b/g/n wireless adapter
Toshiba Tecra S1
Toshiba Portege M100 / Portege R600
Fujitsu Siemens P and S Series Lifebook
Older AMD-CPU based systems (Athlon) do not boot with grml_2009.10, grml_2009.05 works.
Intel 945 Chipset
Intel 965 chipset
Realtek ALC882 HDA soundcard
S3 Graphics ProSavageDDR
Lenovo Thinkpad T400
Lenovo Thinkpad R61
Lenovo Thinkpad R60
Lenovo Thinkpad T61p
Lenovo Thinkpad T61 (including WWAN models)
Lenovo Thinkpad T60
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Lenovo Thinkpad X300 (including WWAN models)
Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m
Lenovo X60s
IBM Thinkpad T42
IBM Thinkpad T43
IBM Thinkpad T43p
IBM Thinkpad R52
IBM Thinkpad T20
HP Compaq 6510b
HP Omnibook XE3
Asus M6800nb
Acer TravelMate 4002LMI
Compaq Evo N800v
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Samsung X20
Dell M70
Dell Latitude 810(boot using libata.atapi_enabled=1 ide1=noprobe)
Dell Latitude D610(boot using fb1024x768)
Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 (see
wlan on how to get wlan up)
Lenovo A55
Lenovo A55 with ServeRAID-7t S-ATA controller
Lenovo M55
Lenovo M57
Lenovo M57p
Lenovo A61e
Lenovo M90
Lenovo Thinkstation S10
Lenovo Thinkstation E20 with Nvidia FX 1800 (vesa driver did not work, but nv did)
Mainboard Gigabyte EP45T-UD3P
Mainboard Intel D975XBX2
IBM x206 (tested with S-ATA model)
IBM x206m (tested with SAS model)
IBM x305
IBM x336
IBM X346
IBM System x3200
IBM System x3250
IBM System x3350 (needs recent kernel for onboard NICs)
IBM System x3650 (tested with ServeRAID-8k and ServeRAID-8l adapters)
HP ProLiant DL140 G1
HP ProLiant DL145
HP ProLiant DL360 G3/G4
HP ProLiant DL380 G3/G4
Dell PowerEdge 1600SC (including storage ADAPTEC/MegaRAID, FUJITSU Model: MAP3147NC / QLogic Model: GEM359)
FSC Primergy rx100
FSC Primergy rx220
FSC Primergy rx300 S2