On 06/23/2016 09:38 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 2016-06-22 01:32, Alex wrote: > >> Had a working Qubes 3.1 installation, and the only problem was that >> it could NOT be used with UEFI (even if the motherboard supports >> it, and the Qubes installer does boot and starts in EFI mode), >> [...] > > I think this is to be expected. R3.1 does not support EFI. > Actually it should, at least per the release notes: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/3.1/release-notes/ (new features since 3.0, it says "UEFI support") and I remember following the github ticket for this very bullet point, and it was completed successfully.
I suspect this would happen with any plain linux distro, and suspect it to be a bug in grub-efi, but since it takes a lot of time to trash a system just to test with partitions/boot sectors/boot loaders I can't invest more time on this specific workstation. I do apologize for this; I'd like to help. If details are needed: - partitions have been decided autonomously by the installer - it decided to put a 500MB /boot partition (/dev/sda1), followed by a 200MB /boot/efi partition (/dev/sda2), followed by the lvm container (/dev/sda3) - During boot loader installation, I can see three messages in the anaconda log, but cannot remember them exactly. The first is "I'm gonna install the bootloader!", the second says "Installing stage1 in /dev/sda1" and the third says "Installing stage2 in /dev/sda2" - the system freezes as soon as the third message appears. - Checking online, two potential issues were mentioned: * There may not be enough space on the EFI partition * There may be older GPT data that may be picked up - To try and debug the first issue, I let the installer set up the partition tables and forced the EFI partition (/dev/sda2) to be 600MB instead of 200 - same freeze on the same log message - To try and debug the second, I "dd'ed" from /dev/zero to /dev/sda for ~8GB, and tried again reinstalling - same freeze on the same log message - I don't know how grub-efi is supposed to work, but I do know grub (stages/menu/etc) - is it right for an EFI installation to put a stage2 in the EFI partition? That's everything in detail; hope this helps! -- Alex -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/49bf1229-05ac-a65d-30dc-65f9bfb3ac06%40gmx.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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