Hello, So I've been trying for nearly two weeks to get qubes to install on my system. And finally success! Oh sweet success!
...well sort of. I finally was able to get qubes to install, but now when I turn on my machine it shows there are no operating systems and it goes straight into checking hardware. If I go into the one-time-boot-menu (f12), it shows my only boot option as onboard NIC. In the bios (F2), it also shows no boot path for legacy or uefi. If I use a live usb to get into a GRUB shell and try to manually boot qubes via manually setting root, manually loading the kernel and initrd, I can't see the qubes filesystem on (hd1,3) it says "unknown filesystem". If I use my original qubes installation usb and choose option to fix a qubes install. It tells me that qubes is not installed. I think it is because I deleted system partitions that I shouldn't've deleted. The first three thousand or so times I tried installing qubes, I got a lot of messages like /dev/root doesn't exist, or that it could not mount root fs on unknown blocks, and then lots of kernel panics. I thought it was because I still had windows on my machine. So I reluctantly decided I wanted qubes more than windows and deleted those partitions. I'm not sure if deleting them is why I am now able to install qubes. I've tried booting into a pop_OS live usb that I had, and tried the utility bootrepair <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair>but it could not fix it. I'm not real sure on where to go from here. I did choose to partition things manually while installing qubes, but I let qubes set up the root and boot and swap itself. I deleted everything but the windows recovery/backup I had made before I deleted windows, and also kept my pop_os installation (which also won't boot now even manually from grub (I'm a dummy so I'm probably doing it wrong)). In my pop_os installation, I made backup images of all the windows and system partitions before deletion, so if I feel like if I could get in there I could restore the windows and system partitions. But I am just not tech savvy enough to figure it out I'm afraid. Hoping one of you can help me or point me in the right direction. Really hoping I didn't brick my laptop. My system is a g5 5590, i7-9750H, 32gb Ram, gtx2060, 1tb dell laptop. Qubes and Pop are current versions. The following is what my current partitioning looks like: nvme0n1p 953G (hd1) nvme0n1p1 1M BIOS boot efi (hd1,1) nvme0n1p2 1G Linux Filesystem (hd1,2) nvme0n1p3 324.8G Linux LVM (hd1,3) 15 G Qubes-dom0-swap nvme0n1p5 48.8G Windows Backup (hd1,5) nvme0n1p6 251.5G PopOs Installation (hd1,6) Thank you for reading, Jillian -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/5164ac63-94b6-48a1-9d73-994dbf4f914a%40googlegroups.com.
