On Sunday, January 28, 2018 at 2:03:35 AM UTC+1, bill...@gmail.com wrote: > 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.
uh yeah, workdays can really get in the way for these things. I have probably somewhat similar issues, there are so many things to catch up on. It can be fun, but indeed this is really time-consuming, which is already frustratingly in short-supply. -- 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/ef7549b8-2667-4514-9206-0b1afa6b0292%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
