On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:26:00 -0800 (PST) Bryce <scott.lewis.engin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 6:37:47 AM UTC-5, Mike Keehan wrote: > > > > Ah, what a shame. It does seem as if your iommu is a problem. > > > > Without any other ideas, the only thing I can suggest is that you > > try the latest Qubes 3.2 just to allow you to try out Qubes. It > > doesn't require the vt-d stuff, so might work on your box. > > > > The other thing you can do is try googling for iommu and your cpu > > together to see if others have had problems (not necessarily in > > Qubes, just in general use). > > > > Mike. > > Well, just to put this out there, it seems as if my CPU doesn't > support SLAT and maybe that's why (I thought from intel's page it > did). Installing the latest 3 stable and I don't get any errors about > IOMMU like I did with 4, but just like with 4 I do have to disable > vt-d in bios in order to boot to the installer. > > Unfortunately as soon as I turn vt-d back on, the system goes thru > post, I see qubes start to boot and then after a minute (about when I > think I'd see the disk password prompt) I get a message from my > monitor that the input timing is wrong, which I've never seen on > several other operating systems! Wierldy, I was able to reproduce > this behavior by turning off vt-d, booting up fully and then was able > to update without issues unlike in 4. Rebooted twice without issues, > then turned vt-d back on and got the exact same behavior. > > So I guess I just try out using 3.2 without vt-d. > > I'll take a look around the users' group, but I don't see any real > details on the qubes site for what the key differences are between 3 > & 4 are, can anyone point me to something that will tell me how worth > it (secure) that it is to use 3.2 instead of replacing hardware to > run 4? > Hi Bryce, Glad you got something working for you :) This is a good description of the changes in Qubes 4.0 :- https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/releases/4.0/release-notes/ Mike. -- 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/20190123112857.72b8ec98.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
