>
> So, pressing the Shift Key from Starting the box *should* bring up the
> Grub menu.
> Sometimes, I've tried keeping it pressed, or just repeatedly hammering
> on the key from start.
>
> If you really cant get a grub menu, then you can use a live distro to
> fix the problem.If you dont have one they are not difficult to get - for
> what you want to do I'd suggest something small - slitaz, dsl,nanolinux.
>
> Boot to the live distro, mount your /boot partition and edit the
> grub2//grub.cfg -
> look for entries relating to TIMEOUT - if you have HIDDEN_TIMEOUT, delete
> that line.
> set TIMEOUT=30
> Save the file.
> umount /mnt (or wherever you mounted boot partition)
> reboot
I went with a live os from another usb, decrypted the HDD, and since I
couldn't find any grub2 folder or grub.cfg file I started searching
for grub files, I looked at them all, and only 1 had the TIMEOUT Lines
etc, It is located at '/etc/sysconfig' . So once in the sysconfig
folder I did the 'sudo nano grub' and modified the following lines
FROM :
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
TO:
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=30
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
GRUB_TIMEOUT=30
saved the file, unmounted the HDD, and on reboot I pressed the
left-shift (during all boot) and nothing, just a black screen with
some "_" showing up sometimes, and after a few seconds it gets into
the uefi-boot. got the same thing hammering the left-shit instead of
just pressing it from the start. Got the same result.
Then I rebooted without pressing anything and it went to the uefi-bios
AND I NOTICED THAT NOW "Qubes" OS DOESN'T EVEN SHOW UP in the bios
list, and rebooting again and again the OS IS NOT EVEN LOADED ANYMORE
and the passphrase is not asked anymore!!!!!
:(((( DESPERATION IS RISING UP
Plus when I went back booting the live OS from the usb, and going back
to /etc/sysconfig and issuing 'nano grub', I noticed the file remained
unchanged, which if you think about it, it's normal because it's wrote
on it that to apply the changes you have to issue "update-grub", which
btw I can't do because i'm not in the qubes OS!!!
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> I had the same problem a few months ago. If you have a PS/2 port on
> your motherboard just plug the keyboard via a ps/2 to usb adapter
> and never worry about that again.
I would have tried that but I do not have the ps/2-usb adapter. Now
that I know I could use one I would think about buying one as a last
resource, but since now the problem got even worse and the os is not
loaded and consequently the passphrase is not even asked, thats not
gonna help :(
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> Try removing the 'rd.qubes.hide_all_usb' entry from dom0's
> /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.cfg.
>
> You can do this from a liveUSB or another OS if you do not have the
> ability to edit it from within Qubes.
>
> Credit to mnords on IRC for the solution.
>
> Andrew Morgan
Unfortunately booting with a live OS from a usb, accessing the
internal HDD, going to /boot as you said, unfortunately that folder is
completely empty, not even hidden files are there. (not even 'ls -a'
didn't show anything)
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:(((( DESPERATION IS RISING UP
Isn't there a way to copy my Vms from the live OS (in the usb) ? so I
can just reinstall the system and change the vms folders like when
using Vbox ?
Thank you for the attempts to help till now, I truly and deeply hope
to get out of this trouble.. it's a nightmare to me.