Hi users of the Qubes Os list, This weekend I decided to install this Os that I have been following for a while . After trying once, without spending too much time (1h) and fail to install, I decided to give it another try.
I spend the weekend trying to figure how to install the system. Here is my feedback and my errors because unfortunately I could not make it work . 1- Install media : USB I did use an USB Key for my installation media. First problem, my computer (Toshiba Satellite P50) use EFI I'm aware 3.0 does not support EFI , I did try 3.1 and 3.2-rc3 Both case , dd if=image of=/dev/usb boot to a grub shell So to get from grub shell to grub install : set root=hd0.1 linuxefi /EFI/BOOT/vmlinuz root=live:/dev/sdb1 initrdefi /EFI/BOOT/initrd.img boot That, gave me the possibilité to boot the installer and "install" the OS 2- USB key cannot be use as the installation media If I want to use the usb as the install media, that is what is expected, here is the error : Installation Source : Error setting up base repository So, yes, not possible to use the USB key as the source of the installation media. I have to use another USB-KEY with the Qubes Os iso file , plugged at the right time to be able to use it. 3- Installation process lead to no-bootable device I tried automatic partitionning, manual partitionning , btrfs or ext4 partition, nothing After the installation ends , disk boot failure, please insert ... But, 2 times, over maybe 10 , I have got the system booting after the installation end. And the only two times it worked , the boot process crashed and could not boot the device anymore 4- Installation finished, boot with the usb-key plugged in to get a grub terminal and boot my Qubes Os with grub shell command So yes, this is all it take to me to boot up the system Some will say that it's a good security to avoid anyone booting the system, but I would like to have a normal boot process :) 5- Not able to finalise installation At the first boot, QubesOs ask for the first configuration . In my case 100% of the time I could get to this operation failed with the error that you can see on that picture : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cro4G4vWYAA2reD.jpg So the installation first configuration process crash, I can't do it. After , I'm able to login with my user into dom-0 Inside dom-0 I cannot do anything because the configuration does not exist and because I don't know what to do to solve that. I don't really know if all of this is "hardware specific" issues, but I don't think so. The computer is few years old The disk is an SSD brand new The installation process does everything correctly , I mean no errors and "normal" process that lead to a disk boot failure . I can see the disk have the bootable flag , /boot partition is here /boot/efi partition too I someone have any suggestion I'll be happy to try it stable version 3.1 and 3.2 have exactly the same behavior 3.2 does not allow BTRFS partitioning so I went for ext4 I hope the feedback will give some input to QubesOs team and others users Cheers, Benoit -- 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/464418968.1157842.1473132849344.JavaMail.zimbra%40georgelin.me. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
