On 2019-03-24 02:41, Yushatak wrote: > On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-4, Yushatak wrote: >> When I boot the Qubes installation media (I dd'd it to a USB stick per the >> instructions on the site) it initializes Xen, then the kernel starts booting >> (Linux penguins, etc.), and then it goes to a black screen and there's no >> activity. F1 does nothing. My hardware is a laptop with an i7 8700K and an >> Nvidia 1060, so it smelled like nouveau driver problems to me. However, >> normally one works around that by editing the kernel line in grub with >> nouveau.modeset=0 and I have no grub! I decided to try editing the grub.conf >> in the isolinux directory of the ISO by extracting the iso, editing, then >> regenerating the ISO. Someone on IRC was nice enough to provide me a log >> from the official build of the ISO so I used the proper switches/etc.. I >> booted that in a VM to make sure it was OK as a sanity check, then wrote >> that to the USB stick (which takes like 26 minutes, it's USB 2.. not fun) >> and it stopped booting after attaching the USB stick as a SCSI device, not >> even quite getting to the black screen. AFAIK my hardware requires a 4.18 kernel and from what they said on IRC there's nothing newer than 4.14 in Qubes anyway, but since it tries to boot I don't know. I throw myself upon your mercy, Qubes community/developers. > > Nobody has a single thought?
Might the solution be putting your BIOS into Legacy mode? https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/Vy5wpWbOYxU In my case switching the HDD from AHCI mode to IDE mode seemed to get past this blank screen and got me to the install screen. -- 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/24cf72d48db8b557b2f0832dfdcfbc13%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
