On Mon, October 30, 2017 20:57, '[799]' via qubes-users wrote: > Hello, > >> Try repeating the Qubes install but when you >> get to the custom partitioning step, make sure >> to specify the appropriate partitions for boot >> and /. You will probably want to re-enable the >> boot flag on your hda1 partition as well > > Thank you for the feedback, I have meanwhile installed a fresh > installation of Fedora 26 and could boot up fine, I reinstalled Qubes 3.2 > afterwards and got the same result. > > Can't boot, tried to setup the partitions manually and made sure that the > Boot partition is installed correctly. > I also set the Boot flag to the first partition. > It doesn't matter ... Can't boot. > Totally annoyed that I tried Qubes 4 which can't boot any VMs and that I > can't go back to Qubes 3.2 without deleting all partitions including my > windows setup. > > I think I'll try to reboot into windows when Fedora is installed, make a > backup of my windows partition and then reinstall Qubes from scratch. > Have invested so much time already in this Qubes upgrade/downgrade topic > that I am done for the year.
Remembered later I encountered this issue on a fresh 3.2 install, maybe you are hitting it too. This does not apply if you are doing UEFI boot, only GRUB. Found a fix in https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=msg/qubes-users/TS1zfKZ7q8w/JQFkVF4xBgAJ#!msg/qubes-users/TS1zfKZ7q8w/JQFkVF4xBgAJ: "after a Clean Install of Qubes R3.2, it fails to boot - stuck at "Booting from hard drive:" SeaBIOS message with blinking "_" character, cant reach GRUB Boot Menu because MBR (or GRUB) is corrupted out-of-the-box. Luckily it can be fixed: boot from your Qubes R3.2 installation media, go to "Troubleshooting -> Rescue a Qubes system", after booting to anaconda installer please choose "1) Continue" (and enter your Qubes partition password if you chose to encrypt it during install), then enter "chroot /mnt/sysimage" - and, finally, "grub2-install /dev/sdX" (where X is a letter for your hard drive with Qubes, in my case it was sda: "grub2-install /dev/sda")" -- 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/21b3833dba668065096445d46d5961f6%40elude.in. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
