Well, a snag. Evidently the newer kernel is not respecting the power management instructions on the boot params, and keeps wanting to lockup. The guy building it for me is working on a work around. If we can't get coreboot to work I may be stuck with an earlier model such as a T420 as my next box. I was really wanting the 32gb ram capacity of the W520...
I consider the qubes model most secure without any blobs or (ak) the hardware vendor bios. I may have to be keep a blob for the video in order to get the W520 working... We really need a target built system for coreboot/qubes for the best security. It needs to require ZERO blobs for most security. I'll keep you posted with the results. Stuart On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:42:41 -0500 Stuart Perkins <perkins.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: >I have commissioned the creation of a coreboot Lenovo W520. > >It is already running Qubes 4.x, but I will likely do a reinstall just for the >experience and to put it together with my GUI of choice etc... > >I will have a 240+GB SSD for the main OS and certain VM's. > >I will move my 2TB hdd over and set it up for the data areas which are just >plain too big for the SSD, much like I have my current setup. > >It has the Nvidia graphics which loses the ability to run the VGA port without >a blob I don't want to include in it, so external monitors will have to be USB >driven. > >It will be equipped with 16GB of RAM as well initially, then I will up it to >24 in order to save 8 for this machine, which I will commission as a backup >server for my home network (not running qubes, but it is is still core >booted...and I will be running Debian with VirtualBox VM's for various >things...like I did before Qubes and like I do now of my current home "server". > >I will finally get off of Qubes 3.2... ;) > >I have not been actually reading the 4.0 messages here, but I have been >downloading them and will read through them for any issues I have before >bugging folks here...other than an up front question: > >Is there any known issues with a corebooted W520 and Qubes 4.x? > >Stuart > > -- 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/20190819083434.21e36ed9%40gmail.com.
