> On 18 Jul 2019, at 10:06, Martin Gladdish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On 18 Jul 2019, at 10:04, Aly Abdellatif <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same problem when I created the usb with Fedora.
>>
>> Try Rufus on windows
>>
>>> On Jul 18, 2019, at 10:05 AM, Martin Gladdish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've just bought a new T590 explicitly to try out Qubes.
>>>
>>> I found the ThinkPad-specific help,
>>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad-troubleshooting/, which is super
>>> useful.
>>>
>>> I followed the instructions at the top, used a Fedora VirtualBox machine to
>>> create the bootable USB flash drive, and got as far as the Qubes setup
>>> screens.
>>>
>>> Where it all came unstuck though was selecting the Installation Source in
>>> the setup screen.
>>>
>>> Could it be due to a wrinkle in the steps for creating the USB image in the
>>> first place? The instructions say to edit EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg, but there is no
>>> such file on my image.
>>>
>>>> sudo ls -a EFI/BOOT/
>>>> . .. BOOTX64.cfg BOOTX64.efi fonts initrd.img TRANS.TBL vmlinuz
>>>
>>> I made the label changes to BOOTX64.cfg instead, and that got me as far as
>>> I did.
>>>
>>> But what's weird is that the ~4GB Qubes .iso doesn't appear to be on the
>>> USB stick? When I try to select an Installation Source, the USB drive is
>>> one of the options but when I try to Choose an ISO there simply isn't one
>>> available.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Martin Gladdish.
>>>
>>> --
>>> 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/bc4e34aa-349e-4229-be28-a84943a181ee%40googlegroups.com.
>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
> Ah it was Rufus on Windows that I tried first, but that refused to boot from
> the USB at all. The ThinkPad troubleshooting page I linked to seems to agree
> with me.
>
> Although I’ve seen that people have had success switching to Legacy mode and
> using the Rufus-created image?
I’m in!
Keeping the bios settings from the ThinkPad specific help pages but going back
and trying the Rufus-created image sorted it.
The last wrinkle was sys-net refusing to start, but removing the Ethernet
device from it got it up and running.
--
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/7AF74004-22A3-4BEC-886F-CF25167D90C6%40gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
