Starting a new thread, as the previous seems to be mislabeled at this point (Empty Xen.cfg after install).
Booting from the install media for Qubes 3.2 works 100%, and so far, I've used the automatic partitioning to do all of the work for me. Anaconda uses a trick for EFI Macs (ie. Macs that can no longer boot into "legacy" BIOS mode) that creates an HFS+ ESP partition, ostensibly to boot the final product. This tricks the Mac into thinking that there is a bootable OS X installation on the partition, allowing the user to use the Mac's internal bootloader(?) by holding down the Option key at startup (this lists all available OSs, for those who don't know). The problem with the Qubes 3.2 config is that it kicks out a boot.efi file in the expected place (again, where the Mac would expect it, trying to fool the Mac into thinking it's a viable OS X install), but the boot.cfg file is nothing more than an alias file. This file links back to /EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, but the grub.cfg file does not exist there; it's in /EFI/qubes. The grub.cfg file certainly seems like the correct boot instruction file, as it correctly points to the Qubes lvm by uuid. However, it also points to a completely different partition on the disk (the HFS+ parition would be hd1,gpt1, but grub.cfg is looking for hd1,gpt2). hd1,gpt2 contains an empty "efi" folder, initrd-plymouth.img, xen-4.6.1.gz (and other files) along with a grub2 folder containing the exact same grub.cfg file. At this point, I'm wondering if there is supposed to be some weird chainloading going on that's not happening, or possibly that the installer is not supposed to make the HFS+ ESP partition, but is doing so because this is the default Anaconda behavior on a Mac. My next step will be to try doing the partitioning by hand in the Qubes installer. I realize this is likely not the fault of the Qubes development team, but the fact that there are nine different .efi files on the HFS+ partition, all in differnt places, is very, very confusing. regards, deadseeds -- 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 post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6da11b60-e121-43b9-a58e-ddea61b4007f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
