On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 3:35:09 PM UTC-5, motech man wrote: > 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. > > 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.
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