On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 02:07:10 -0400 Yushatak <yusha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Machine has no legacy mode. > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019, 11:32 PM Gaijin <gai...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 2019-03-24 02:41, Yushatak wrote: > > > On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-4, Yushatak wrote: > > >> When I boot the Qubes installation media (I dd'd it to a USB > > >> stick per > > the instructions on the site) it initializes Xen, then the kernel > > starts booting (Linux penguins, etc.), and then it goes to a black > > screen and there's no activity. F1 does nothing. My hardware is a > > laptop with an i7 8700K and an Nvidia 1060, so it smelled like > > nouveau driver problems to me. However, normally one works around > > that by editing the kernel line in grub with nouveau.modeset=0 and > > I have no grub! I decided to try editing the grub.conf in the > > isolinux directory of the ISO by extracting the iso, editing, then > > regenerating the ISO. Someone on IRC was nice enough to provide me > > a log from the official build of the ISO so I used the proper > > switches/etc.. I booted that in a VM to make sure it was OK as a > > sanity check, then wrote that to the USB stick (which takes like 26 > > minutes, it's USB 2.. not fun) and it stopped booting after > > attaching the USB stick as a SCSI device, not even quite getting to > > the black screen. AFAIK my hardware requires a 4.18 kernel and from > > what they said on IRC there's nothing newer than 4.14 in Qubes > > anyway, but since it tries to boot I don't know. I throw myself > > upon your mercy, Qubes community/developers. > > > > > > Nobody has a single thought? > > > > Might the solution be putting your BIOS into Legacy mode? > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/Vy5wpWbOYxU > > > > In my case switching the HDD from AHCI mode to IDE mode seemed to > > get past this blank screen and got me to the install screen. > > > I had exactly this problem when I installed Qubes. Searching this mail list found the answer. (You have to edit the installation image, or mount the image, edit it and build a new image for installation.) 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/20190324153605.69690b17.mike%40keehan.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
