I recently had some success install Qubes 3.2 on a lenovo p51, booting UEFI. I went through a lot of a trial and error in the process. I'm hoping this post can save others some time. I've seen in other threads some struggling to get Qubes working with UEFI firmware.
I intended to save my command history to disk so that I could post step-by-step exactly what to do. But I must have been in a dispvm at the time, because now I can't find that history. So the following is from memory and not precise. I tried every trick I could find related to Qubes UEFI installation, and thinkpad troubleshooting. What finally worked does not appear to be documented in any of the Qubes documentation. Qubes uses Fedora's installer, Anaconda, and the following approach is documented on Fedora's wiki. 1. Follow Qubes install guide up to the `dd` command. Don't write to usb with `dd`. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/ 2. Instead, use Fedora's `livecd-iso-to-disk` tool. You'll need the `livecd-tools` package. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Command_line_method:_Using_the_livecd-iso-to-disk_tool_.28Fedora_only.2C_non-graphical.2C_both_non-destructive_and_destructive_methods_available.29 I don't recall for certain exactly what I passed to `livecd-iso-to-disk`. Try this: sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format Qubes-R3.2-x86_64.iso /dev/xvdi The media as written will not quite boot, yet. Qubes EFI boot is configured to find a label "Qubes-R3.2-x86_64", but the media written by the livecd tool is labelled "BOOT" (and the filesystem does not support the longer label, so the --label option would not help). 3. Mount the usb media (/dev/xvdi in the example above) 4. Edit xen.cfg. If I recall correctly, `<mount>/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg`. In this file, replace every occurrence of `LABEL=Qubes-R3.2-x86_64` with `LABEL=BOOT` You should now have install media that work on UEFI firmware! After install, I recommend upgrading kernel version for recent hardware. I.e. with sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable kernel kernel-qubes-vm -- 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/54565916-4ae7-4029-8349-3c0afc59bb24%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.