-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-06-22 01:32, Alex wrote: > Hello everybody, here's some feedback from the migration of a > working 3.1 to 3.2 rc1.
Thanks for the feedback! > First, hardware and situation: assembled pc with asus Z97 > motherboard, 32GB ram, integrated video, intel i5 processor, 500GB > hard disk. Three monitors, each with different cable (one VGA, one > DVI, one HDMI) all connected to the onboard internal video adapter. > Two monitors 1280x1024, one 768x1440 (it's a rotated 16:9). > > Had a working Qubes 3.1 installation, and the only problem was that > it could NOT be used with UEFI (even if the motherboard supports > it, and the Qubes installer does boot and starts in EFI mode), > because during an EFI setup the computer completely freezes at the > "Installing bootloader" step. Text mode log says that it hangs at > the second stage installation, last message is something like > "Installing stage2 on target device /dev/sda2" (which should be the > EFI partition). I think this is to be expected. R3.1 does not support EFI. > I'd like to have anti-evil-maid out of curiosity. > > Done a full backup (I do backup templates too; did that error of > not backing them up once - never again), downloaded Qubes 3.2 just > to see if the EFI bootloader installation worked, and - it did not. > I start to think it is a problem with my hardware that will never > be fixed upstream. I don't know if an existing installation can be > "converted" to EFI, and found very little online :( > Bummer. :( > Anyway, installed Qubes 3.2 non-efi, XFCE is my desktop > environment, at the beginning there are some glitches with icons > missing - turns out XFCE has to "index" or "preload" them, because > they start appearing after a few minutes. In the meantime, I > removed the RPM templates (that were installed even if unselected > during setup!), Noted, thank you: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2105 > reinstalled kernel-qubes-vm that was automatically uninstalled > when removing the last template RPM but I think it's needed, and > restored the backup. > > The full restore brought back everything - dom0 settings, xrandr > settings, and the dependencies between VMs (who is the netvm of > who). The only problem here was that firewallVM was not marked > anymore as having ntpd enabled, and the clock could not sync. > Enabled that, restarted firewallVM, clock could sync again. > Also noted, thanks: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2106 > TL;DR: everything seems to work - audio, video, network, storage, > except for EFI whose bootloader continues to be unable to be > installed on my pc. Deselecting debian/whonix templates during > setup has no effect (they are installed anyway). Removing all RPM > templates removes an unrelated package that I think should be kept > (kernel-qubes-vm). Tracking: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2107 > Data restore works perfectly, apart from the ntpd service in > firewallvm (may or may not have been enabled in the original, I > think so, can't I check anymore?). > > Wrapping up, works for me. Thank you all for your good work! > Thanks for the detailed report! - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXa5IEAAoJENtN07w5UDAwhUkP/3MHj1KshLfUFL2/nnQUGGhE WeVlSEwgo1yb638hAGIg3UfRg76jDeS0WasQQhXmrGbqXyPfL7z5bRnLGWdLPUna M9aXIaZXb5Bah6Q1fQk6fXy02AUV/1MGJyWGajXSI4+5NvFOgO83iVuxOyVcU8TD 245zHaFyfKEOmmk37JfqWF7j7yY2bLDhvB+NlrebfhKQZVikcskP2FdL1A452fUS QMJ97+AF6IKv0n/XVqphpiEv8jEU792Gfq2wRLnS2YwlTiSkFNQ76jFn6Ilc3g8B Zffsdpes6h7KXoYX6dskghFEeM6V2mJF5opeDM2/pK5J9O7ZB38uwP/9VXVWjcFs ZDQufpcgwnQZlyvHRcSfzD1HbPOKG0aXo6IO/FjS/6KGsGQy2TI2ungYnK0fvjFr dX8Yk/TpW3qxViUbAqfFMysXi5rEVdhGdQp2ws9fM8MibNTstMCJF4LInMYz7GBj 0i/PqWjqacdySG2x9ZTaC1pLuE9QaPlmssxdKQ2q4MVRCEwSBT2iHjPZWA30MHyr 1b0luI3rtDsjDjVFHMptacIWQHVuaQZTC9DuJZpAYHM277kT19AOmLWXjpYPDRZV foi9M9CofuvqUPZZIhLsCG8NAZz6bCjc3yhY2HbHZnCR7jXTiGeqPXUtPaS2wd07 eO2FhOkCAvmn05R/8aPK =bPfA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/62ed72fd-c7c1-fa5a-50bf-7487d1912ae1%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
