I've been trying to install Qubes for several days now with no luck at all. I'm not a linux newb, and I recognize Qubes is quite different. Problem is that the errors and info about booting are displayed and gone to rapidly to read.
This system doesn't have removable media, except thru USB. I have a USB DVD and I've copied the ISO onto USB key as well. On DVD I see a grub menu with all entries just chainload to xen.efi. I verfied the ISO with sha512 hash, and verified the DVD when it was burnt. Used dd to copy ISO to USB, but as I write this I realize the USB has 2 partitions so I will dd it again after reformatting to a single partition using gparted. Not sure that will matter but it just occurred to me. When I boot usb key no grub and different errors This mobo uses an MSI "Click BIOS". I have zeroed out all keys. I have disabled all secure boot options. It's kindof odd where the key management lives, but I disabled all options under the "Advanced/Windows OS Configuration" menu. There are 3 areas that relate to booting: 1) Advanced/Windows OS Configuration menu 2) Boot menu 3) Under Save / Exit - boot overrides I can access an EFI shell under #3, but don't know what the cmd line to invoke is. Help not useful for listing devices. When booting off the DVD I can list the devices by typing ls <tab>. There is an SSD + HDD + whatever usb devices I plug in. Under the Boot menu is a Boot mode, which has 2 settings: UEFI or UEFI+Legacy. In UEFI only mode (the main one I've focused on) there are 7 options for boot order. I set 2 and disable all the rest. 1=UEFI USB Key, 2=UEFI USB CD/DVD. Under Windows OS Configuration there are 4 settings: 1) Windows 8.2/Windows 10 WHQL 2) Windows 7 3) MSI FAST Boot (no scan for boot devices, use only configured) 4) FAST Boot I have all 4 options set to disabled, which implicitly disables Secure Boot I believe. BTW - the MSI mobo manual is no help for BIOS setup. If I enable option 1 I can see additional Secure Boot options, including key management. I have backed up then cleared all keys, then disabled secure boot by switching option #1 back to disabled. With boot mode = UEFI I briefly see 8 or 9 lines of text and then am dumped into grub prompt which erases that info. If I boot the USB DVD I get the 4 Qubes lines which chainload to xen.efi with various options. I have read the troubleshooting guide and appened efi=attr=uc and one other variation (nobootexit I believe) which has no visible effect. Not sure why grub runs when booting off DVD when BIOS allows ONLY UEFI. That looks like a legacy boot response to me. Silly to boot a UEFI grub which chainloads to an EFI, so perhaps BIOS is not doing ONLY a UEFI boot as the setting indicates. Not sure what to try next. I did stumble onto a PDF file from Linux.org IIRC about how Open OS devs CAN boot using Secure Boot by checking if the UEFI BIOS is in "setup mode" and if so the OS can then install it's own keys. The PDF described the process in considerable detail. I don't know why Qubes doesn't use that method, unless they discovered there are too many bugs in UEFI implementations or UEFI versions capable of that process are too new and not widespread enough to rely on. Anyway, looking for any help or alternative to get Qubes installed you can offer. I have an old rEFInd CD I could try to boot, maybe it could be booted and from that it could load Qubes from the USB key. Other than that I am not sure what to do next. -- 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/cbad62e6-0a35-42d0-b889-d828d01c5545%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
