-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 05:30:15PM +0200, David Hobach wrote: > > > On 07/24/2016 02:05 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 01:51:54PM +0200, David Hobach wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I tried installing /boot & /boot/efi to an external USB flash drive which > > > worked (after many clicks in the installer), but doesn't boot (laptop > > > claims > > > that there's no boot device). > > > > > > I guess the grub installer got confused by the install flash drive also > > > attached to the laptop during the installation? > > > I also noticed that my /boot/grub folder only contains a splash.xpm.gz > > > file > > > and the /boot/grub2 folder only some themes folder (thought there'd be > > > some > > > config file somewhere?)... > > > > > > So how can I re-install the boot loader in 3.2rc1? Unfortunately I'm not > > > used to EFI boot yet and grub2-install does not appear to be available in > > > a > > > chroot dom0 environment (tried the Qubes recovery mode). > > > > > > Any other ideas why booting might not work? > > > > If you are using EFI, there is no grub involved at all. Your USB drive > > should be have appropriate layout so EFI firmware will recognize it: > > 1. Needs to have GPT partition table > > 2. Needs a partition of type "EFI System", formatted as vfat > > 3. Content of /boot/efi should be there (especially EFI/qubes) > > > > Only /boot/efi is needed to boot in EFI mode, /boot may be left on your > > main disk, inside encrypted root volume. > > Thanks for that last note! > > Other than that my issues were caused by HP (I was testing with a current HP > Elitebook 850 G3) implementing the UEFI standard their (incorrect) way... > > So the HP "BIOS" apparently only loads the efi file \EFI\Boot\Bootx64.efi > and of course the Microsoft one automatically, cf. > http://fomori.org/blog/?p=892 (not my blog). Apparently they also removed > this "customized boot" option mentioned by the author for the 850 series > (the most recent BIOS was installed, if I recall correctly). > > So Qubes installed correctly, but didn't work afterwards (the installer uses > \EFI\Boot\Bootx64.efi, the Qubes installation used a custom path). > > Nevertheless I was able to boot Qubes by using a "Boot from efi file" entry > in the boot menu & manually navigating to the Qubes efi file. Quite > cumbersome though...
You can rename /boot/efi/EFI/qubes to /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT, then inside that directory rename xen.efi to bootx64.efi and xen.cfg to bootx64.cfg. It should work, but you'll need to do it again after every kernel/xen update. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXlljKAAoJENuP0xzK19cssU4H/ig4vtkOMltXZRveO9PIqjMs 1pz6IDTH2f8HW+gSwaNxhiMPbxyOORkqreoGU6BcjbAF1L5Etj/ofXFg64iRJIEi ranqmeL/Q7ovoihea7qZPDeHCGIc2F6JbtHGnYWf/qPMTIdsjwzv/DKTY+CNL5ui gbI3VutruTsiYSj0bQyemPABuLBe4CA1KZCsR0X4FuqvLod19vpOCSeK476D3F+9 HawCMKtdGKB8vn6snN3kO6En58yndlyi0DnNtbEfwec8W7C7aHY9ixFsOifUke9v RmT/zrp49PIWoNbvpb9VtK44KpZeSwR5iIapZWPBiexU1vAx/8m/1TJkOMXrbRs= =5oaL -----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/20160725182202.GL32095%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
