On Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 11:22:09 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: > I am unsure if this is primarily an issue with Qubes or the Anaconda > installer. > > Issue observed while installing in UEFI mode. BIOS was set to use AHCI > (otherwise, the "nvme disk" is not reported to the installer or the live usb > I used to look at the disk contents). > > Manual partitioning does not appear to recognize an existing EFI partition on > an "nvme disk" (1) as an EFI partition (error message "No valid bootloader > target device found..." (2)). > Installing anyway results in no Qubes boot option on reboot. (3) > Running efibootmgr -v from a live usb reports a Qubes entry at VenHw (instead > of a HD). > > The laptop I used also had a non-nvme disk, and accepting automatic > partitioning put a new esp on that disk instead. The install completed > successfully with automatic partitioning. I have observed no issues with the > installed Qubes system so far. > > (1) the disk is reported as nvme0n1 during the manual parition process. > (2) "No valid bootloader target device found. See below for details. For a > UEFI installation, you must include an EFI system partition on a > GPT-formatted disk, mounted at /boot/efi" > (3) I am unsure if this is relevant, but the installation process does write > a "qubes" folder to the ESP partition on the nvme disk. On my first > installation attempt, the write was corrupted, and trying to read the files > through a live usb reported "fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos > 0)". Later attempts did not result in such an error, though no attempt > resulted in a working Qubes boot option.
I attempted installing the same Qubes image again using an nvme partition for /boot/efi. Though the installed system did not work initially, I was able to create a working entry for /boot/efi/xen.efi with efibootmgr. -- 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/702f1bff-2045-4876-bada-e8cd970a16b3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
