-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 03:17:37PM -0800, justin.h.holg...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 1:52:00 PM UTC-8, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 12:18:09PM -0800, justin.h.holg...@gmail.com wrote: > > > My primary OS is Ubuntu and it's likely to stay that way (I need > > > vagrant/virtualbox for work), but I'd like to spend some time using Qubes > > > when I can. > > > > > > In my ideal setup, my laptop would boot into Ubuntu by default, but have > > > a grub entry to switch over to the Qubes bootloader on demand. > > > > > > This setup isn't covered by https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/ so I > > > figured I'd give it a shot myself. > > > > > > I installed Qubes, but elected not to make the install device bootable > > > (since I want to keep Ubuntu in charge of booting). Then I found the > > > Qubes bootloader partition at /dev/sda7 and attempted to add a > > > chainloader entry to /etc/grub.d/40_custom like this: > > > > > > menuentry "Qubes Chainloader" { > > > insmod chain > > > insmod ext2 > > > set root=(hd0,gpt7) > > > chainloader /EFI/qubes/xen-4.6.1.efi > > > } > > > > > > I can select 'Qubes Chainloader' at the grub menu, but it just flashes a > > > message (I think it's something like "Loading xen-4.6.1.efi") for the > > > briefest instant before dumping me back into grub. For what it's worth, I > > > know it's at least finding the .efi file because it no longer complains > > > that it can't. > > > > > > TL/DR: what can I put in /etc/grub.d/40_custom to chainload the Qubes > > > /boot partition at /dev/sda7? > > > > Is /dev/sda7 your ESP? If so, remove 'set root' line. > > I'm not sure it qualifies as "the" ESP (I don't know EFI very well), but > /dev/sda7 holds the Qubes /boot partition. It's not the partition that boots > by default; that would be /dev/sda1. > > If I do remove the setroot line, how will grub know that xen.efi is on > /dev/sda7?
It will not know that. I think to work with this, you need to copy/move EFI/qubes directory into your primary EFI partition. - -- 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 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYTFMZAAoJENuP0xzK19csfyEH/RGH5bu9bnb7YGz8gdzTGuZw WFIisMOnjK9s9EyVber6XZTuo9ENbPY0picx9e/Wzhx5RfRES6z38C4aUsDcnHo2 1yAZCymxcAST/1qdRbboe4lLm+Ii76bDV9+8qBuZz4nW0kvqnMfoa0kZd2n/cIho o98/tfAyGpvcFKFFGnM8SjuyvtlsnamA+0VydhqXT5eY4RHVFzxQRHEN1i5nJPSA zVo3wJsUwdFrdW9UKZY6DlCKXFzAI41i8pMI29D/ELDffj55lQJZmyvWfzcjbr6P tgAoRXToJvOu4Bxg/kMnf5Z0CEsOePz1JVwkX3/DJRDEqcAyXGNEVlSYuhxbbOY= =+4kN -----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 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/20161210191017.GO16264%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
