> > The two big issues in this report (aside for the need to modify the > > config in > > the install media, which is not obviously transposable to 4.1 > > snapshots) are > > the lack of detection of TPM and SLAT. Will be happy to help with > > these. > > Another issue is that the default 5.4 kernel does not support VFIO on > this hardware.
Is it useful to add this information to the HCL entry itself ? > So I installed kernel-latest, and that one just fails > to boot: I successively get: > - Xen startup logs > - some Linux services starting, with "Failed to start Setup virtual > console" as first line of this screen, and a couple of lines until > "starting dracut initqueue hook" and "starting Show PLymouth boot > screen" > (order may vary) > - after a couple of seconds, the laptop reboots > > EFI boot not providing a menu means booting from USB is the only way > to > recover from such an issue, right ? > > Alas, rescue mode breaks for me with > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5609, > whether I try to boot with 4.0.4 or with 4.1-20210422. > > What options do I have to recover ? Answering to myself on this: using any rescue USB key to change the default boot entry in partition 1 does the job, and we can then proceed with removal of the kernel-latest package. > Then, is there a way with qubes-dom0-update to get intermediate > kernel versions to check when is started to break ? Maybe there's a simpler way, but I could not list available versions using dnf. So I selected one from https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/current/dom0/fc25/rpm/. Then "qubes-dom0-update kernel-latest-5.10.8-1.qubes" does download the rpm but fails claiming "No package kernel-latest-5.10.8-1.qubes available" (looks like https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4792) and I have to finish installing it by running dnf on the rpm file. It seems older kernel-latest versions are not even in the dnf index, and I had to wget them and transfer them manually to dom0, which is quite an ordeal :) Of older versions of kernel-latest, unfortunately only 5.4.10-1 will boot (tested in a quick manual bisect: 5.5.7-1, 5.6.16-1, 5.10.8-1). Older 5.5 and 5.6 get stuck at one point (probably in a loop, as fans start spinning faster), and 5.10 has a same reboot loop similar to 5.11. Bottom line seems to be "no vfio for now in 4.0". -- 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/766265063.637286138.1619777250507.JavaMail.root%40zimbra39-e7.
