Claudia: > 'awokd' via qubes-users: >> duc...@disroot.org: >>> This is an issue that's been reported before, and some solutions appear >>> to be out there, including re-installing with Legacy boot. However, they >>> all seem to involve modifying the installer prior to installation or >>> making changes via a GRUB menu. I'm never presented with a GRUB menu >>> with either (I suspect that's a UEFI issue), so I'm not quite sure how >>> to proceed with troubleshooting. I want to stick with UEFI-only boot as >>> far as possible. >>> >>> The last messages echoed before the black screen are: >>> >>>> [VT-D]Passed iommu=no-igfx option. Disabling IGD VT-d engine. >>>> Scrubbing Free RAM on 1 nodes using 2 CPUs >>>> .................done. >>>> Initial low memory virq threshold set at 0x4000 pages. >>>> Std. Loglevel: All >>>> Guest Loglevel: Nothing (Rate-limited: Errors and warnings) >>>> Xen is relinquishing VGA console. >>> >>> The screen goes black indefinitely at this point. >>> >>> This is a device with only integrated GPU so I suspected this might be a >>> problem. >>> >>> How should I proceed? >>> >> Intel integrated GPU usually works well as is. Are you getting the black >> screen when you boot the installer, or after it completes and reboots? >> > > For what it's worth, yesterday I updated dom0 on a previously working > Qubes 4.0.1 installation, rebooted, and ran into this exact problem. I > have absolutely no idea if it's related. > > Also, re: grub, from my experience it appears to me that it only uses > grub.efi if you have more than one OS installed, such as R4.0.1 and > R4.1, otherwise xen.efi is used which does not have any boot menu or > command line capabilities. I imagine you could change this from rescue > media using some kind of UEFI boot config utility, or perhaps by running > grub-install? With rescue media, you also can modify boot parameters in > /boot/xen.cfg directly. > > In my case, changing xen.cfg back to 4.14 kernel seems to solve the > issue, but I know I had a 4.19 kernel working on this same machine > before. I haven't tried legacy boot at all. > > Anyway, point is that it may not be strictly due to UEFI, per se. For > me, 4.14 worked fine under UEFI, and then the 4.19 update caused the > same symptoms you're seeing, which is just like any other > update-gone-wrong, UEFI or not. Also, I don't even know if it was the > kernel update that caused it. It could have been caused by a dracut > update, Xen, or anything else, I assume. > > It's on a currently non-production system so I'm probably not going to > troubleshoot it. Most likely I'll wait around for the next kernel update > and see if that fixes it, or wait around for 4.0.2 and reinstall and see > if that fixes it. > > ------------------------------------------------- > This free account was provided by VFEmail.net - report spam to > ab...@vfemail.net > > ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of > the NSA's hands! > $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No > bandwidth quotas! > Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! Think I'll put 4.0.1 out to pasture and wait for 4.0.2 then. Glad to get your input.
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