Closing the loop on this for anyone in the future. In the end, I had to: >From the working 4.0 host: - Enable a local admin + login one time. - Take a fresh backup. On the target 4.1 host: - Restore the backup - in a dom0 terminal, run "qvm-prefs <VM Name> qrexec_timeout 60000000" <---- number is just a large, arbitrary number so Qubes doesn't shut the machine down when qrexec doesn't come up. - Boot the machine 3x times. On the third time, Automatic Repair starts. - Logged in with the local admin. - Attempted automatic repair - no good. - Opened a command prompt and used diskpart to assign the boot partition to letter S and the Windows partition to letter C. - used bcdboot to regenerate the boot files. - used bcdedit to ensure the correct partition was set. - reboot
This *still* failed on the next boot, however I was able to get into Windows Safe Mode. Another reboot had me functioning normally. On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 5:10:22 PM UTC-5 EasyMac308 wrote: > Update: I was able to restore my backup to a Qubes 4.0 system and it > worked. The new system is 4.1... That gives me something else to chase > down. > > On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 1:44:14 PM UTC-5 EasyMac308 wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I had a catastrophic failure with my Librem 14v1 and am currently trying >> to get everything back up and running from my latest backup onto a new >> machine (Dell Precision 7510), pending the return of my repaired Librem. >> >> My Linux App VMs all seem good, but my Windows HVM is failing to start >> with "Inaccessible Boot Device". The steps I would normally take to >> attempt to troubleshoot a Windows machine in this state aren't working >> (booting from the Windows Install Media and/or some kind of PE disc). The >> VM just shuts down before either come up. Windows automatic repair fails >> because there's no local local admin account. >> >> The HVM was originally created from a Hyper-V VM whose disk was converted >> to qcow2 and then imported to Qubes. It's functioned fine on my original >> machine since. Backup and restore was done via the standard GUI tools >> within Qubes. >> >> One thing I've never been clear on is where the disks live once they're >> in Qubes. I know it's something to do with lvm, but I'm unsure how to >> access them or re-export them for use in another hypervisor. >> >> I have access to both the recent backup I took and the disk out of the >> bad laptop. Any tips would be much appreciated. Thanks! >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/00bb5621-64db-451a-b801-ba1cd88db87bn%40googlegroups.com.
