-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 12:18:09PM -0800, justin.h.holg...@gmail.com wrote: > My primary OS is Ubuntu and it's likely to stay that way (I need > vagrant/virtualbox for work), but I'd like to spend some time using Qubes > when I can. > > In my ideal setup, my laptop would boot into Ubuntu by default, but have a > grub entry to switch over to the Qubes bootloader on demand. > > This setup isn't covered by https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/ so I > figured I'd give it a shot myself. > > I installed Qubes, but elected not to make the install device bootable (since > I want to keep Ubuntu in charge of booting). Then I found the Qubes > bootloader partition at /dev/sda7 and attempted to add a chainloader entry to > /etc/grub.d/40_custom like this: > > menuentry "Qubes Chainloader" { > insmod chain > insmod ext2 > set root=(hd0,gpt7) > chainloader /EFI/qubes/xen-4.6.1.efi > } > > I can select 'Qubes Chainloader' at the grub menu, but it just flashes a > message (I think it's something like "Loading xen-4.6.1.efi") for the > briefest instant before dumping me back into grub. For what it's worth, I > know it's at least finding the .efi file because it no longer complains that > it can't. > > TL/DR: what can I put in /etc/grub.d/40_custom to chainload the Qubes /boot > partition at /dev/sda7?
Is /dev/sda7 your ESP? If so, remove 'set root' line. Generally take a look at issue 794[1], long story short - xen.efi does not work when loaded by grub using grub filesystem driver (instead of EFI filesystem handling). Not setting 'root' variable should trigger EFI internal filesystem handling. [1] https://github.com/qubesos/qubes-issues/issue/794 - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYRzL5AAoJENuP0xzK19csEDkH/ijAHRGnNZg9IbQLQbxbYAs0 Xzgo/WKThdzZLKK7PXfi7+tQyHFw/DmHs5UOmIvvDSYSRxDUP/FfGEfOm7nhxOcQ Lh+xKK/W7QCOnNERXtuXkcxHLGimYCMeen3ellAacJb8/Zg4ETTOP/O7OruAw3cr FOPMR5YnOwGU9UX6/yt0yi27W8e88jOJYV8QSp4gsGiEtWbi7tlJqzHsl28hWu+P PuW+wT7o3Y8bg+HsIu01d0zmavq9qI/+Smgm9kePdL6FiVq8ulpg9fI8GCYcdBdz 81+YIgzcTDraYjs0mFH62O78TSVW0F+uqnYGpZW4tHM4eN/NMfEB8hSoEa+dw+Y= =lHPA -----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/20161206215150.GC1149%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
