On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 10:28:52 UTC+11, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:33:50PM -0800, dumbcyber wrote: > > 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. > > Macs have USB keyboard, which makes them incompatible with USB VM (at > least in default configuration). In particular, enabling USB VM prevent > USB controllers being initialized in dom0 - even during disk passphrase > prompt. To disable this part, you need to remove 'rd.qubes.hide_all_usb' > from kernel parameters. > Also the problem may be caused by missing USB controller (or keyboard > itself) driver in initramfs, but AFAIR it was fixed long ago. > > - -- > 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 > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYKkivAAoJENuP0xzK19csPKUIAJjnVSSSTj1oJGyisBEFhNZk > 56thercS0SFlvMpdBmY4xXF+F+TuEuoK8VPFXJeQGUhyH8UtjuWYavC0wzWTsl2H > c3yMucbxHVvzmTTwth3ToYvfcaQUO+Zu89J9CfwsfzRsr2p53n4x6OECfuhuc/Hs > ftqPUDWOG87jXzaJVKS3SbWdg/8ifrDkEWgYCpXy/jTZiC3Zpd3K50aU0dFSG6Ww > Xv61SKSZjRbZNtrjBVgkUXxXgw5lD0rRuddlsUNqJJX4r+n/VlF7acukjYXfyfRM > TMvFoR9k5RH4leniSTMNTeQqQcSUgGAbPaa+dJ/OdyY+x5y6djtCBb72izQVY0k= > =5rjy > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thanks for the info. For me a noob, how do I remove that parameter from kernel? Thank you. -- 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/981eb4dd-6a27-48be-ae15-f7dc69714fd3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
