Qubes 3.2-rc3 RAID and nvme

[joseph.y...@gmail.com]

I installed Qubes 3.2-rc3 on my Lenovo P50 (Xeon ECC laptop)

It works, but I had to disable RAID in the bios and use lvm striping.

The raid disks don't seem to show up at all. The bios doesn't have a storage remapping option ( https://communities.intel.com/thread/102395 )

I'm guessing this is a bios issue. I installed with software RAID and lvm raid0 with success, expect the EFI won't boot.

I was able to boot with rEFInd on a USB, but I can't figure out how to install it permanently. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Qubes/comments/4onsfe/qubes_os_32_rc1_has_been_released/d4mi1mn )

I'm installing Qubes 3.1 now to see if it will work. Hopefully the final 3.2 can EFI boot on nvme SSDs.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm loving this software!!

[joseph.y...@gmail.com]

Qubes 3.1 was no help.

Fedora 24-1.2 installed unless I select RAID 0 for the volume group. I am going to attempt the same with Qubes 3.2-RC3.

I need to this this working this week, even if I have to use Fedora instead of Qubes :(

[ludwig jaffe]

hw raid or kernel raid?

#cat /proc/mdstat

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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What do you mean by "EFI won't boot"? Does it crash/hang during startup,
or isn't detected at all? Take a look here:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/

Also take a look at those threads:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/8Ui1csb2S9Q
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/kBKABl9-A3g/discussion

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[joseph.y...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 4:02:13 AM UTC-4, ludwig jaffe wrote:
> hw raid or kernel raid?
>
> #cat /proc/mdstat

It is PCIe NVMe RAID, so Intel RST powered. It is skylake, so I don't think it is supported in this version of the kernel in NVMe mode. I believe SATA disks would be though.

no devices listed in mdstat or /dev/nvme*

On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 4:14:40 AM UTC-4, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> What do you mean by "EFI won't boot"? Does it crash/hang during startup,
> or isn't detected at all? Take a look here:
> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/
>

It shows up, but it immediately returns to the EFI selection menu when I try it.

I found that page through Google before asking. No joy from any of that.

> Also take a look at those threads:
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/8Ui1csb2S9Q
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/kBKABl9-A3g/discussion

In legacy mode, Qubes does not boot from the USB media. It tries but it immediately reboots my laptop.

I did not try: efibootmgr -v -c -u -L Qubes -l /EFI/qubes/xen.efi -d /dev/sda -p 1
I used the last option string.

My laptop is new with the latest BIOS.

I appreciate the help, but I realized that I'm going to have to wait until Qubes has more up to date kernel / software. It doesn't let me shutdown. The light stays lit and something keeps it HOT until it runs the battery down. It doesn't come back from suspend to disk or suspend to ram.

I need to get it functional for work, as sad as I am to be limited to user security.