Qubes OS 4 pre RC1

[P R]

Hello,

I tried to install Qubes 4 pre RC1 on my Lenovo Thinkpad W540.

I've seen some warning messages during the Boot process of the installation stick but the installation process itself was working without any problems.

After ~15min Qubes was ready to reboot.

When I reboot, Qubes Boot Menu comes up, but when I hit enter, after roughly 6 seconds a reboot happens.

I have also tried to remove rhgb quiet from the grub line, to get more information, but I just get a black screen, then reboot.

Any idea where to look for the for cause.

- Philipp

[Noor Christensen]

Can you boot in rescue mode or some Live CD and copy the follow file
from the partition where Qubes is installed?

/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

It would be really helpful to see how your GRUB is configured.

-- noor

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[P R]

Hello Noor,

2017-07-09 10:16 GMT-04:00 Noor Christensen <kchr+qub...@fripost.org>:

On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:42:35AM +0200, 'P R' via qubes-users wrote:
>
> When I reboot, Qubes Boot Menu comes up, but when I hit enter, after
> roughly 6 seconds a reboot happens.
 

(...) It would be really helpful to see how your GRUB is configured.

I have booted a Fedora 25 Live system.

My Qubes 4 installation is installed on my 2nd built-in SSD (/dev/sdb).

My first SSD is used for my windows installation.

Default Boot drive is /dev/sdb

partition layout of /dev/sdb

[root@localhost-live ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 447.1 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x88a60036

Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *       2048   2099199   2097152     1G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2       2099200 937701375 935602176 446.1G 83 Linux

where /dev/sdb1 is the boot drive and /dev/sdb2 is the encrypted partition with LVM on top.

I have attached the /grub2/grub.cfg as it is a bigger file.

I try to boot the following menu entry, which results in a black screen and a reboot after a few seconds.

I am not even reaching the prompt to enter my password to decrypt my Qubes partition (/dev/sdb2), so it has to be something with the boot options or BIOS settings.
btw: No changes have been made in the BIOS coming from Qubes 3.2.

Looking at the neccessary specs it seems that my laptop is Qubes 4 compatible.

CPU: Intel Core i7-4900MQ
https://ark.intel.com/de/products/75131/Intel-Core-i7-4900MQ-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_80-GHz

HCL report:

type:  'notebook'
hvm:  'yes'
iommu:  'yes'
tpm:  disabled in BIOS
brand: LENOVO
model:   20BG001CGE
bios:   GNET76WW (2.24 )
cpu:   Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4900MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
cpu-short: Core i7-4900MQ
chipset: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c04] (rev 06)
gpu:
- Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0416] (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
- NVIDIA Corporation GK106GLM [Quadro K2100M] [10de:11fc] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
gpu-short:   NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
network: |
- Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-LM (rev 04)
- Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)
- Sierra Wireless LTE WWAN Card (passed through to to sys-net)
memory: 32356
scsi: |
- SAMSUNG MZ7TD512 Rev: 5L0Q - SSD1 = 512 GB >>> Windows 10
- SanDisk SDSSDXPS Rev: 00RL - SSD2 (in optical Bay) 480 GB >>> Qubes OS 4 preRC1

Any idea where to continue troubleshooting?

- PhR

[P R]

Hello,

On Sun, Jul 09, 2017 at 12:42:35AM +0200, 'P R' via qubes-users wrote:

> When I reboot, Qubes Boot Menu comes up, but when I hit enter, after
> roughly 6 seconds a reboot happens.

No further help needed.

I downgraded to Qubes 3.2 again and will wait until the official release candidate will come.

- PhR