On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 08:47:30 UTC+11, dumbcyber wrote: > From the beginning I have to ask for forgiveness - I am new to Qubes and have > no knowledge of changing boot managers beyond trial and error. > > My hardware is a Macbook 11,1. In fact I don't have any other machines at > home. > > I want to create a bootable USB drive with Qubes R3.2. I had the usual > problem of seeing the 4-item menu to install but nothing working regardless > of option chosen. I tried some forum suggestions like adding /noexitboot=1 > to the cfg file. No luck. > > I created a working Qubes USB on a Lenovo computer at work. I was able to > create new VM's and set firewall rules. So I know it works. > > Then my uninformed head took over. What if I took that USB and tried booting > it on my Macbook? The Macbook does not even recognise the USB at boot time. > If I boot into OSX I can get to the USB drive through terminal and mount it. > > I then tried copying rEFInd to the Qubes USB stick but that just hangs the > Macbook after selecting the EFI boot option. I'm resisting installing rEFInd > on the Macbook itself until I know more about it especially the need to > disable SIP. > > My question is: would that even work - copying rEFInd to the working USB > drive built on a Lenovo? Are there any other options I could try? > > Many thanks.
I also tried copying the EFI/qubes folder to EFI/BOOT and renaming the two xen files to BOOTX64 - this hangs after selecting the EFI boot option on Mac startup. -- 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/ad439eb1-2536-4ed7-bf9d-5a8c87efabe1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
