On Friday, 17 August 2018 22:41:55 UTC+10, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have just assembled my new Desktop consisting of the following main
> components.
>
> Motherboard : Asus Prime A320M-E
> CPU : AMD Ryze 7 2700 (No internal video handling)
> GPU : GigaByte GeForce GT 1030
> SSD : Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2
> RAM : 16GB DDR4
>
> First, this is my first attempt in installing Qubes, so I probably have made
> some stupid misstakes...
>
> I downloaded the latest Qubes 4.0, and dd'it to my USB stick.
> Confirmed the check sum was ok.
>
> Booted up the qubes installer, and tried both options on first page (Install,
> Verify and Install).
> None worked due to X-Issues.
>
> Loads of Firmware Bug popped up.
> X statup failed, aborting installation
> (WARN anaconda: X startup failed, Xorg existed with status 1)
> (DEBUG blivet: IGNORED: blivet.safe_dbus.DBusCalError: Failed to call
> Introspect method on /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/Manager with None arguments:
> GDBus.Error.=:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.freedesktop.UDisks2 was not provided by any .service files)
>
> The /tmp/X.log has the following info at the end.
> Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>
> Basic Graphics mode did not work either.
>
> So this did not work, so I found some information on how to do it in the old
> fashion way, just text terminal.
>
> I added inst.text to the boot prompt.
> And I got further
>
> But now it stops on Partitioner don't have LUKS password!
> 1) Selected the SSD
> 2) Use all Space
> 3) LVM Thin Provisioning
> ---> And the following output appears
> Generating updated storage configuration
> storage configuration failed: autopart failed:
> Encryption requested for LUKS device nvme0n1p2 but no encryption key
> specified for this device
>
> I thought I could perhaps use a kickstart file (found reference to it via
> Google), but could not find the kickstart file on the SSD disk. I presume it
> is
> created when installation starts, which it will not do since there is an
> Error checking storage configuration.
> Some questions...
>
> ==> Q1 How do I get the graphical installer to work for me?
> ==> Q2 How do I input the encryption key when I use the text based installer?
> ==> Q3 How do I create and use a kickstart file?
> ==> Q4 I presume Qubes should work fine with my configuration?
>
> Looking forward to any hints or tips or suggestions
>
> Cheers
>
> Bengt
Thank you all for the suggestions.
I am not allowed to use legacy bios setting, so no can do :(
I want to use the nouveau drives, so I have some use of my gpu card.
Decided to wait a bit with Qubes, and get back to it later. In the mean time,
back to OpenSuse for me.
Cheers
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