On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 6:23:54 PM UTC-5, Yuraeitha wrote: > On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 8:45:43 PM UTC+1, bill...@gmail.com wrote: > > Thanks so much for your reply and your help. I installed using legacy boot > > and it worked fine -- in fact, I'm responding from "untrusted firefox" > > right now! I don't know if qubes comes up in the grub menu yet. I just > > got this installed, and ran it from the BIOS boot sequence Legacy-USB > > option, and I'm off for some errands myself. > > > > However, in lieu of killing myself with UEFI, since this works, I'll stick > > with it and am a happy camper. Maybe in the next week I'll play around > > more with UEFI, but I'm going to have to learn a bit more about it, I think. > > > > Anyway, you made my weekend! Thanks again for your reply. > > I'm glad you got it working! :) > > Try run 'qubes-hcl-report' in dom0, and check if HVM, I/O MMU, HAP/SLAT, TPM, > and Remapping, is working properly in your Qubes setup. The top one, HVM, as > far as I know is the most important one. The lowest, remapping, should with > my limited knowledge as far as I can tell, be the least important of the 5. > All of them are relevant for security, and to some extent, proper working > features. > > If I'm not mistaken, I haven't ventured into these waters before, and someone > might correct me here. But I believe if a Qubes (or Linux in general) uses > the same partition table as UEFI/EFI (GPT), over the old out-dated MBR), then > it might be possible to switch between UEFI/EFI and Legacy/BIOS without > re-installing a system if retaining the modern GTR partition table. But it > can be tricky if something goes wrong, especially if you have precious data > you don't want to loose. Also UEFI/EFI is heavily reliant on not having a > buggy motherboard firmware, which many unfortunately have. I also recall > having issues not being able to restore an EFI path for Qubes 4, which used > to always work on the same machine on Qubes 3.2. I'm not sure if this got > fixed, it was some months back and Qubes 4 has rapidly been updated on many > ways since then. But this issue is likely to be Qubes related, or at least > partly Qubes related. So it's not always the hardware that is causing it, > although the hardware in this case might be part-reason still. > > Remember to take frequent AppVM backups. If you're learning with the trial > and error method like I do, many things can end up going wrong. For example, > burned my fingers more than a few times my self there before I got into > proper backup habits. Never take that risk, it will eventually go wrong :')
I'll do that, probably next week. Today was my "play with new linuxes" day. Tomorrow is the sabbath for me, and then it's back to the grindstone. Sigh. -- 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/f7cfa1d1-2e89-4327-8c51-cf61944956bb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
