Updated instructions can be found at: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Super_Grub2_Disk_test_in_virtual_machine Introduction ============= Super Grub2 Disk needs to be tested to see if EFI mode was builtin in it or not. So you need a virtual machine with an EFI capable boot firmware (not sure of the right technical name). Virtualbox ========== Select Virtual machine Settings System Enable EFI (only special OS) OK KVM and Ovmf ============ This is to force an EFI-only system so that you know that it actually works. Requisites apt-get install kvm ovmf Test KVM and Ovmf qemu-system-x86_64 \ -bios /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd \ -cdrom ~/gnu/sgd\ /supergrub2_upstream/supergrub2\ /super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.00s1-beta6.iso