Failed to get initiator name from iscsi firmware

[loro...@gmail.com]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Qubes 4 on an XMG P407 laptop. Unfortunately I get the error "failed to get initiator name from iscsi firmware", coming from here: https://github.com/fepitre/qubes-installer-qubes-os/commit/2ee1f1ad93d0e51cb264aefdb3d6147223136eb7

Reading Reddit it seems like P407 should work: https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/be38ee/what_is_the_best_laptop_for_qubes_os/

I have installed Qubes previously on another laptop (Gigabyte) and it works fine. However trying to reinstall it on that laptop now just for testing also gives me the same error.

What does work is installing Qubes on my desktop computer, but that is not my goal...

Any pointers?

Best regards

[loro...@gmail.com]

After more testing with different releases I can conclude that the following low level errors are thrown:

• Qubes 4.0.2-rc2:
  blivet.errors.DependencyError: storaged iSCSI functionality not available
• Qubes 4.0.1 & Qubes 4.0 RC4:
  blivet.safe_dbus.DBusCallError: Failed to call Introspect method on /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/Manager with None arguments: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnkown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisk2 was not provided by any .service files
  

I found a couple of bugs reported along these lines:

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429132
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1378159
• https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/E4wvjPSgirE/discussion

Nothing to fix the problem though so far unfortunately...

[loro...@gmail.com]

Since iSCSI is used just for networking, can it be disabled?

https://anaconda-installer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/iscsi.html

[loro...@gmail.com]

Moving the disk to another computer and then installing Qubes works. However after moving the disk back it can no longer boot (not surprised)... Is it possible to edit boot options to get it booting or are hardware differences a problem?

[loro...@gmail.com]

It seems like this was a graphics error and not related to iSCSI. Adding the following boot arguments to [qubes] section in BOOTX64.cfg fixed the problem:

 mapbs=1 noexitboot=1 modprobe.blacklist=nouveau rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau




As suggested here: https://bytefreaks.net/tag/modprobe-blacklistnouveau