On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 4:46:53 PM UTC+1, Nathan Myers wrote:
> On 3/8/18 1:19 AM, Nathan Myers wrote:
> > I am trying to install on an ASUS ZenBook UV501 (Skylake, HD530, NV960M,
> > NVME SSD). The installer kernel OOPSes because it loads the nouveau
> > driver module, and gets confused by the bumblebee/optimus hardware
> > arrangement.
> >
> > I have installed Debian 9.3 on this machine, and it works if I blacklist
> > the nouveau module during boot. (I.e. the i915 module needs to load
> > first.) But I don't see any way to control the boot line during
> > installation. ("E" only shows me a chainloader command line.)
> >
> > Also, when choosing where to install, the installer seems to offer only
> > the whole disk, but I have partitions already in place, currently
> > formatted for swap and ext4, that I would like for the installer to
> > overwrite. How do I tell the Qubes installer to use those?
> >
> > Might the 4.0 beta installer deal better with these details?
>
> With the 4.0rc5 installer, it never gets to the option to edit the
> chainloader command line. It just says X failed, press ENTER, and then
> nothing when i press ENTER. The log shows it looping trying to start
> things. But the kernel is not obviously OOPSing.
>
> What to try next?
that sounds odd... the boot-loader isn't even loading?
Is it possible to temporarily disable your nvidia graphics card in the
BIOS/UEFI? It should produce the same results as writing the blacklist. Then if
that works, you can then later easier blacklist it inside Qubes, reboot, and
then re-enable your nvidia card in the BIOS/UEFI, and then test if it works.
Also about the full partition thing, I do not mean to scare you or put you off,
but I recall there was an issue back in fedora-23 that caused changes to other
partitions despite not telling the installer to do anything to them. It should
be fixed today? I never personally encountered this bug, but I recall it
discussed once. Qubes 3.2. installs dom0 with fedora-23, while Qubes 4 installs
dom0 with fedora-25. At any rate, it might be a good idea to backup first.
Though, I haven't seen it since, so maybe it's rare, or it's fixed today. But
that you can't "choose" partition layout editor seems a bit worrying. I'm still
on lower Qubes 4 release candidates updated to RC-5, I haven't re-installed
with RC-5 yet though. Maybe it's something specifically in the RC-5 installer?
Any chance you can try out the RC-4 and RC-3 installers and see if they act
differently with the partition editor here? If so, then you can just update to
RC-5 from those if it installs.
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