Machine has no legacy mode. On Sat, Mar 23, 2019, 11:32 PM Gaijin <gai...@riseup.net> wrote:
> 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 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/CAEXELgMqkK1JC27MEH8Vap90jf2oh-64%2BYoURJVT8UQf2FET7Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
