On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 03:03:59 +0100 Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 01:02:52AM -0800, Joe Hemmerlein wrote: > > Danke, Stephan, your pointers were very valuable! > > > > At first, I decided to just borrow an external DVD drive and boot > > off a DVD burned from the ISO, in UEFI mode. The result however was > > the same as when booting from my previously-created USB stick: grub > > boots, but no matter what i select, the screen briefly flashes and > > takes me back to grub. So.. yeah, the ISO image does not appear to > > be usable out of the box on some UEFI devices, even when burning it > > to a DVD. > > > > Your description of the livecd-tools helped make good progress, but > > still without ability to boot the installer completely, but they > > sent me in the right direction. I then found > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/4VsKdxnKHBk, > > which described a process very similar to yours (it omits the part > > about using dosfslabel, but has a part about also updating the > > xen.cfg file). > > > > Altogether, this did the trick! > > Thanks for posting detailed instruction. And for the pull request for > qubes-doc! > > > In condensed form, this is what i did to create a USB install stick > > that works with UEFI on the T470: 1. Use the "livecd-iso-to-disk" > > utility from fedora livecd-tools to put the ISO image onto an USB > > stick 2. rename the USB stick's partition label to BOOT 3. edit > > the /BOOT/EFI/xen.cfg file on the USB stick's partition to make > > sure all LABEL=<something> instances are replaced with LABEL=BOOT > > Does anyone have an idea what the difference livecd-iso-to-disk make, > compared to isohybrid? If possible, we'd like to installation iso work > out of the box on UEFI systems, including new ones... > > I wonder if Fedora netinst iso (_not_ Live iso) boot on such new > hardware, after directly dd-ing it to USB stick. Can you check that? > Just see if installer starts. It's here: > > https://alt.fedoraproject.org/ > > If that would work, I can try to find what is different about those > images and fix Qubes iso. > > - -- Hi Marek, Even using that network iso to boot my Dell XPS 15 (2017), I still need to add the option "modprobe.blacklist=nouveau" to the boot command line to allow the installer to work. Without that option, the installer gets a 'stuck cpu' error, with the stack trace showing the nouveau driver as the culprit. I could not figure out how to edit the xen.cfg file to add the option there - others seem to have managed to do that though. Best wishes, Mike. -- 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/20171203111553.2909b06d.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
