On 3/18/20 2:32 PM, pitsakismich...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm having trouble to install Qubes 4.0.3 on my Dell. Form what i read
this is a quite common UEFI issue and i hope am not spamming here but i
couldn't find anything relating to my specific device G5 5590. Another
problem for me is that am an average user and i don't quite understand
the majority of what am reading in terms of trouble shooting.
To give a bit of context, here is where i stand. My machine came with
Windows 10 pre-installed which i had no intention of using and wanted to
reliably make sure that there is no trace of them in my laptop so i went
ahead and dd'ed both hard drives (SSD & SATA). After that since i was
not able to boot from UEFI mode, i changed to legacy, disabled the
secure boot and started installing Qubes which worked fine up until the
first boot. I also changed the SATA settings from REID on to ACHI. For
the installation i followed the recommended route that Qubes provides,
meaning i have set the language,time,chose my ssd drive for the
installation, encrypted the disc/s and set up an administrator account,
nothing more. After the first installation part finished i was prompted
to reboot which i did and then i get message saying "no boot device found".
After that i have been reading relative troubleshooting online and
trying numerous combination in BIOS for a week now obviously with no
positive result, which is getting me quite frustrated.
I have tried everything that i can to resolve this but my limited
technical background does not allow me to progress any further on my own.
Would someone be able to provide some guidance in the following topics:
1)How do i make the SSD appear in any of the UEFI or Legacy menus so i
can then assign to boot from there?
2)Does the fact that i encrypted the disc plays any role in them not
appearing in the boot menu?
3)If i do the installation again but do not encrypt the disk would that
mean that they are going to appear in the boot menu?
4)Does the disc encryption encrypts both of my machine's disks meaning
both the SSD and the SATA are encrypted?
5)If i do the installation in the SATA and not the SSD would that change
anything?
6)I am assuming that at this stage i need to perform the following
trouble shooting from the documentation to make the boot work:
1.
Copy the |/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/| directory to
|/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/| (the contents of |/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT| should
be identical to |/boot/efi/EFI/qubes| besides what is described in
steps 2 and 3):
|cp -r /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/. /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT |
2.
Rename |/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg| to |/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg|:
|mv /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg |
3.
Copy |/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen-*.efi| to
|/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.efi| and |/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi|.
For example, with Xen 4.8.3 (you may need to confirm file overwrite):
|cp /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen-4.8.3.efi /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.efi cp
/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen-4.8.3.efi /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi|
Does the above mean that i type in the commands: 1) cp -r
/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/. /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT *and then hit enter(execute)*.
2)mv
/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg *hit enter*
* 3)*cp
/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen-4.8.3.efi /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.efi then type
cp
/boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen-4.8.3.efi /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi *and
then hit enter*
*
*
in any linux terminal and that's gonna do it ? i don't have to change
anything? For example how do i found out if Qubes 4.0.3 has xen-4.8.3
version and not xen-4.9.3 or xen-5.9.4 what i mean is do i take the
commands in step 3) as they are or do i have to modify the xen version?
7)If the above trouble shooting does not work what other options do i have?
Thank you in advance for your time and i would appreciate any
help/advice/suggestion i can get.
Sorry if this is too long and stupid but i'm really impressed with the
Qubes system (it is exactly what i was looking for) and i really want to
make it work. Even if i am too "basic" to be using a system like this.
If more information is needed please let me know.
System Specifications: i7 9750H, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, 1TB SATA, RTX 2060 6GB
Did your "dd'ing" wipe out the disk partition tables?
You may need to boot from some other Linux distro and sort out the disk
partioning first.
/boot should be on its own partition, specifically set up as an EFI
partition.
It might be worth you installing another distribution on one of your
disks, just to give yourself confidence about partitioning and
installation etc. Then if that goes OK, install Qubes on one of
the disks (overwriting the other distro if you want) and see how that goes.
Mike
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