On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 09:02:56 UTC+11, dumbcyber wrote: > 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.
Stupidly, when I copied EFI/qubes to EFI/BOOT I left the /noexitboot options in the CFG file. I removed them from EFI/BOOT/bootx64.cfg and retried. I can now boot into Qubes as far as the disk password prompt. The progress bar on the bottom centre of the screen progresses all the way across but I can not enter any characters into the password field. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/2a2830e3-47cc-4303-bac7-2d651b4f30b9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
