Thanks a lot mystic! Weirdly it worked when I did the following:
- Turn off secure boot, reboot and verify when prompted about the changes - Disable fast boot - Boot from usb with qubes dd - After the qubes installer has loaded and shows the available HHD/SSDs plug in external disk #kept crashing with all bios combinations until I did this# Bests D Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Mystic Buyer Sent: 19 May 2017 16:48 To: Dara Vakili Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Installation Issues on WD MyPassport Ultra Drive Ok here is what I did with my dell xps 15 9560, which initially had problems with hard drive being in RAID and not in AHCI. - In the bios settings I turned off the secure boot option[disabled] - I booted off of my usb and it sure did start the installer, I did not choose the verify and install option since I had read the laptop may come with problems, so I checked the integrity of the software iso separatly. - When I got to the option to choose the installation destination my internal ssd wasn't visible at all. I did some research and found that my laptop setting in bios for hard drive was on RAID so I had to disable it to AHCI. And then I could see the internal hard drive for installation. I am not sure how much of the above what I did will help you, but I suggest checking your settings with the ones I mentioned above. Also try using a different usb to boot off of, since the picture you uploaded said no device of something like that I think may be something got corrupted when you were burning the iso to the usb. I used RUFUS to burn the 'DD' image on to the usb. Also check the size of the usb that you are using since I had made the mistake of using 4gb usb when the size of the iso I was burning was a little over it so that did not go well. If like you said the installation freezes then the media or downloaded iso or may be while burning it was corrupted. So may be install the iso again and check its authenticity on a different machine or some way mentioned on the site. Hope it helps. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Dara Vakili <dvakil...@gmail.com> wrote: Sorry the graphical installer, that's what I mean with blue installer. I'll take a look at my hardware but it should work. There's people who have the same model laptop with qubes installed. Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2017, at 15:24, Mystic Buyer <mysticbuye...@gmail.com> wrote: You might want to check the hardware support of your laptop with qubes. I am not sure of the blue installer. If the graphical installer starts then your laptop is compatible with qubes and will install it. Not sure whats causing the problem in your case. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Dara Vakili <dvakil...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Mystic So When I do test and install, I get that error when the test begins. If I reboot and try to install without the test, I get to the blue installer (anaconda?) and it asks me what language and key layout for qubes. The second I see that screen it fails and outputs a long error that I currently don't have a way of saving. I'll try downloading another version of the ISO but it shouldn't be due to the ISO integrity. I know qubes works on this laptop, people on the qubes Reddit have managed, just trying to also see if they also had these issues. Bests D Sent from my iPhone On 18 May 2017, at 01:49, Mystic Buyer <mysticbuye...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, Did the anaconda installer start? or did this happen when you chose test and install. If it happened during test and install and it did not get to graphical installer at all, you should probably test the integrity of the downloaded qubes iso as per the instruction given on the qubes os site and just start the installation without testing it from the menu. Go straight to install qubes I think the second option. On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Dara Vakili <dvakil...@gmail.com> wrote: Thanks for that. I was able to boot from the USB. When starting by testing media I get the report in the photo, sorry for the res If I go to install, the installer asks me what language and instantly fails due to some random error Bests D <image1.JPG> Sent from my iPhone On 17 May 2017, at 15:26, Mystic Buyer <mysticbuye...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, You may want to turn off secure boot in bios, that sometimes causes the usb to not boot On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Dara Vakili <dvakil...@gmail.com> wrote: Hey all I’m still struggling to get it to work. I have used rubus to write the qubes ISO as a dd image onto a usb stick. When it was complete I could see two folders. I restart my laptop with UEFI bios putting USB boot as my primary. For some reason it won’t boot from the USB. Does the qubes installation need to be done in legacy mode or it works with UEFI? Best Wishes Dara Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Franz Sent: 15 May 2017 21:35 To: dvakil...@gmail.com Cc: qubes-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [qubes-users] Installation Issues on WD MyPassport Ultra Drive On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 4:30 PM, <dvakil...@gmail.com> wrote: Hey Guys Trying to write ISO as DD with rufus onto my external HDD. When I use rufus, tell it to read all files and select the iso, confirm I want it as dd image and not as iso then I hit start. The bugger gets to around 15% after like 4 hours then fails with an error message. Error message just says write failure. The HDD works fine but there’s some issue with my windows 10 laptop from formatting it properly. I had to download minitool partition wizard as windows couldn’t partition or format it. Anyone know any other dd writer that works on windows? Or anything else I can try? All I want to do is install qubes onto this 2TB external HDD. Any advice greatly appreciated xxx Two notes: 1. if you do not find any better way, you may boot a live linux distribution over your windows installation without damaging it. 2. To install Qubes onto this 2TB external HDD I imagine you need another source (such as a USB pendrive) for keeping the Qubes iso installer. Then, installation should start with the pendrive and the 2TB HDD will be the target. Once I did that and it worked. Best Fran Bests D Sent from Mail for Windows 10 -- 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/591a01f1.f58edf0a.c869a.fb38%40mx.google.com. 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