This isn't Qubes-specific, but I had a fair bit of trouble getting various linux distros installed on my P51 (until I finally got NixOS working). The issue seemed to be that, while the installer (and *some* of the various linux kernels I was working with) seemed to know what to do with the NVME drive (the faster and more modern of the two SSDs I have on this box), and would even let me install grub to its boot sector, the BIOS itself couldn't find it. I was working in Legacy mode, so that might have been part of the issue. The workaround was to install grub in the boot sector of a more traditional drive (the older SSD worked fine).
Not sure if this is the same issue you're having, and afaik, Qubes sort of struggles with Nvidia, especially the newer cards, so there might be more hassles ahead. On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 11:44:49 AM UTC-3, Dave C wrote: > Trying to install Qubes on a laptop with graphics card > NVIDIA Quadro M1200 4GB GDDR5 > > The 3.2 installer fails to start X, and falls back to text mode. (Which > complains something about disk entryption and fails to complete the install.) > > I have Qubes 3.2 installed on a portable SSD, so I tried booting the P51 to > that. It made it as far as prompting for the disk password, again in text > mode. After typing the password the boot stopped with only a flashing cursor > (underbar) in the upper left corner of the display. No errors, just stopped > there. > > I've read some troubleshooting tips... > > Tried disabling VT-d in bios - no difference. > > Tried `iommu=no-igfx`on the boot line - again no difference. > > And I've found https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/install-nvidia-driver/ and > reading that now. Is this page up to date? (It mentions "fedora 18"). > > I thought this machine would be great for Qubes, as it has tons of RAM among > other things. But maybe not so much! > > Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, > -Dave -- 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/5436a058-4e49-47db-a63b-b2ece8eec5d1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
