Nicklas Williams:
> On Monday, March 25, 2019 at 1:40:28 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
>> El sábado, 23 de marzo de 2019, 3:28:31 (UTC+1), Nicklas Williams escribió:
>>> I Bought a new precision 5530 recently for Qubes but I have been unable to
>>> get the Qubes install to work. I find that I am forced to use UEFI because
>>> the 5530 doesnt allow legacy boot from internal HDs. I'm trying to make
>>> the edits to the cfg files on a linux system now to try again. I was
>>> wondering if you had any tips?
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 17, 2018 at 8:43:31 AM UTC-8, [email protected]
>>> wrote:
>>>> So I have a Precision 5530, and after some similar tweaks to those
>>>> described here, I managed to install Qubes 4.0. Everything seem to be
>>>> working perfectly fine (Including Wi-Fi) except for the Ethernet adapter
>>>> that I need to connect to the USB-C (Thunderbolt) port. The adapter is
>>>> detected and I can use other connectors (DP, USBs) but the ethernet
>>>> adapter is not listed. I've tried assigning devices, connecting it to
>>>> sys-net, etc but no luck...
>>>>
>>>> Asking this here because in the Precision 5520 you also need a similar
>>>> adapter if you want to use Ethernet... so hopefully you have figured it
>>>> out already?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Hi Nicklas!
>>
>> So besides following the steps described here under "Installation freezes
>> before getting to Anaconda":
>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/
>>
>> I blacklisted Nouveau adding the following line as kernel option:
>> "nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau video=vesa:off"
>>
>> With that you should be able to install Qubes. During the installation
>> process the mousepad wasn't working for me, but you can do it anyway just
>> using the keyboard or attaching an external one. After the installation it
>> was working again though.
>>
>> And finally, after the installation, in order to fix suspend, I had to add
>> the following also as kernel option: "mem_sleep_default=deep"
>>
>> And I think that's it. Hope this helps!
>
> Thanks for your assistance.
>
> I have attempted these options but I am not able to get it installed on UEFI.
> I cannot install it on legacy mode because the system does not permit
> booting from internal drives on legacy mode. My system will not even get to
> the installer because i cannot edit the xen.cfg or boot.cfg files unless i
> burn to USB as an ISO. When I burn with DD (rufus) it wont let me edit those
> files at all because theyre "read only"
>
The xen,cfg abd boot.cfg files need to be edited from a root prompt.
First run.
sudo su -
Then change file permissions
chmod +w /path/to/file
You should be all set to edit the files now.
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