Thanks for this interesting hint. Following your detailed instructions I
was able to create a bootable media that correctly boots on my Thinkpad
in UEFI mode. However, when the kernel finished loading, an emergency
shell appears and the following messages are displayed:
Starting Dracut Emergency Shell...
Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Entering emergency mode
It seems that the kernels loads OK, but is unable to find a root
filesystem to mount. As I do not have Qubes currently installed on my
machine, I am unsure about how to specify a root filesystem. The only
valid root filesystem is the one on the installation media, but that
should be found automatically. Or is it necessary to specify it manually?
Regards,
Stephan
On 06/26/2017 08:29 AM, Dave C wrote:
I recently had some success install Qubes 3.2 on a lenovo p51, booting UEFI. I
went through a lot of a trial and error in the process. I'm hoping this post
can save others some time. I've seen in other threads some struggling to get
Qubes working with UEFI firmware.
I intended to save my command history to disk so that I could post step-by-step
exactly what to do. But I must have been in a dispvm at the time, because now
I can't find that history. So the following is from memory and not precise.
I tried every trick I could find related to Qubes UEFI installation, and
thinkpad troubleshooting. What finally worked does not appear to be documented
in any of the Qubes documentation. Qubes uses Fedora's installer, Anaconda,
and the following approach is documented on Fedora's wiki.
1. Follow Qubes install guide up to the `dd` command. Don't write to usb with
`dd`.
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/
2. Instead, use Fedora's `livecd-iso-to-disk` tool. You'll need the
`livecd-tools` package. See
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB#Command_line_method:_Using_the_livecd-iso-to-disk_tool_.28Fedora_only.2C_non-graphical.2C_both_non-destructive_and_destructive_methods_available.29
I don't recall for certain exactly what I passed to `livecd-iso-to-disk`. Try
this:
sudo livecd-iso-to-disk --efi --format Qubes-R3.2-x86_64.iso /dev/xvdi
The media as written will not quite boot, yet. Qubes EFI boot is configured to find a label
"Qubes-R3.2-x86_64", but the media written by the livecd tool is labelled
"BOOT" (and the filesystem does not support the longer label, so the --label option would
not help).
3. Mount the usb media (/dev/xvdi in the example above)
4. Edit xen.cfg. If I recall correctly, `<mount>/EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg`.
In this file, replace every occurrence of `LABEL=Qubes-R3.2-x86_64` with
`LABEL=BOOT`
You should now have install media that work on UEFI firmware!
After install, I recommend upgrading kernel version for recent hardware. I.e.
with
sudo qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-unstable kernel
kernel-qubes-vm
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