Installations Problems

[Markus Tester]

Hello Everyone

 

Today i tried to install Cubes OS on my new Laptop (Acer Nitro 5 with a Nvidea Geforce GTX 1050). I checked the BIOS for VTX and VTD, both are enabled alongside of UEFI and Secure boot.

I downloaded Qubes-R4.0.1-x86_64.iso checked the signature, and tried to boot it. The only response i was given was Security Boot Fail. i tried it without secure boot, sadly i was just given a blank screen and the noise of the fans going to max.

Back in the BIOS i discovered that my laptop don't have a legacy option.

 

So i went to "Installation freezes before displaying installer" in the doc, and after figuring out that the ANACONDA partition is the one to edit commented noexitboot=1 mapbs=1 out.

 

So finally i got to the installer, touch-pad sadly not working. After 5 seconds the screen went blank. I rebooted and tried again but still after 5 seconds i got a black screen.

 

And that's the Point i am now completely stuck.
 

Greedings Markus

[awokd]

Markus Tester:

Sounds like you are pretty close. Check
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/nvidia-troubleshooting/#disabling-nouveau
and add nouveau.modeset=0 to the appropriate line in that same file you
edited before.

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[Elmo]

Hi, we seem to have the same laptop.

You mention this documentation regarding freezing:

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/#installation-freezes-before-displaying-installer 

> So i went to "Installation freezes before displaying installer" in the doc, and 
> after figuring out that the ANACONDA partition is the one to edit commented 
> |noexitboot=1 mapbs=1 out.| 

Can you lead me to a layman's DIY of the three steps in how to "Change the xen configuration on a USB media" at the top of this document?

1 - How to "mount the EFI partition"?

2 - How can I be "su", and edit the xen config with the kernel key changes?

Then any steps you took if you had success in completing the installation.

Cheers,