-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 01:45:57PM +0200, Alex wrote: > 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?
We don't use grub2-efi on installed system at all - Qubes (xen.efi to be precise) is started directly from EFI. And in theory, in EFI installation, Qubes doesn't need to have separate /boot (only /boot/efi). But as for debugging the freeze - have you tried options mentioned here: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/ ? Symptoms are not exactly the same, but maybe it will help too... - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXdFmbAAoJENuP0xzK19cseCMH/0e+S0kmcTp5zPR8AHxNexLv MZMO3Vx93RZ+AwNjPIrweqtwyZ6IrK+v/A2MbSB6lFcK1C1w/8R2p7oDofipuEOB Y0s1VQhUxRx0HMOWb0IV/xX5rayYn4dytaufQMBPieKKbEI3clsrcl73G5+ZBr5N uLuz1f/q9yUl/qMkaNxB1c6wSyCCgKfXLxntMMFK+w4nJnemI/HV95KcHdOatE/H BoOtYQ6JZ6jFK4AJfVTn2NKpF4Lfmj4JtGoPUSicfcy8iJ10WGNDNAaP/nB1Ik/5 yrvXwQucGOD1e0iFSz2eBSZP/jJnebfaJnDeDRLHDp0ISMlgQnp7l/mxTzqRhT0= =KflT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/20160629232828.GC1323%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
