No System(xen)boot after Qubes 4.0 installation

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evo

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May 23, 2018, 4:43:42 AM5/23/18
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Hi!

I can not boot the installation of Qubes 4.0 on my W530 Thinkpad.
It shows me no bootloader of Xen and goes in blackscreen. Nothing i can
do, just hard power off.

Can somebody say, which directories are on the boot-partition?

I have a guess, that there's something wrong with it.
although i burned the image with dd on linux, just as i saw it in qubes
docs.

thanks!
evo

evo

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May 23, 2018, 5:04:17 AM5/23/18
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can somebody also post the foto of Qubes 4.0 installer’s graphical
screen? Just where you can choose, what you want to do with you USB/DVD.

i found this in the docs:

"The installer loads Xen right at the beginning, so chances are high
that if you can see the installer’s graphical screen and you pass the
compatibility check that runs immediately after that, Qubes will work on
your system."

So i guess, that i can not install Qubes 4.0 on my system.
It gives me the grafical installation screen, where i choose the
language, but it gives me no choice of bootloader on the USB-flash drive.

evo

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May 24, 2018, 7:29:11 AM5/24/18
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after trying to install Qubes 3.2 (that i already had) i got also
problems. Than i installed it in legacy (no UEFI) mode and everything
was ok, also for Qubes 4.0

don't understand it (because earlier the 3.2 version works with UEFI
well), but it works!

evo

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May 24, 2018, 7:34:46 AM5/24/18
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Hi,

now i get Qubes 4.0 working... but by updating dom0 i get much errors.

curl error (6): couldn't resolve host name for ...

there are many of the mirrors which follows then.

it's a very fresh install of the qubes 4.0, so i did not do anything on
the system, but to set the network on manual connection with the router.

the strange thing is, that other mirrors work, so dom0 could
install/upgrade 46 packages.. but not the mentioned with the error.


greets
evo

awokd

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May 24, 2018, 8:34:10 AM5/24/18
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See the instructions at the top of
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/.


evo

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May 24, 2018, 12:24:15 PM5/24/18
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thanks!
i changed the 4 links to https.

...but now i get curl error (3) on several links
"ULR using bad/illegal format or missing URL for ..."
und am Ende "... http' contains bad letter"

awokd

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May 24, 2018, 1:30:56 PM5/24/18
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You edited /etc/yum.repos.d/qubes-dom0.repo, right? And made the line
under [qubes-dom0-current] look something like:

baseurl = https://yum.qubes-os.org/r$releasever/current/dom0/fc25


evo

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May 25, 2018, 8:32:03 AM5/25/18
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yes, correct.
i added there "s" by http
but then gor another error

awokd

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May 25, 2018, 12:23:42 PM5/25/18
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On Fri, May 25, 2018 12:31 pm, evo wrote:

>
> yes, correct. i added there "s" by http but then gor another error

Please copy and paste the error messages you are getting. See
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/copy-from-dom0/#copypaste-from-dom0.


evo

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May 27, 2018, 3:27:43 PM5/27/18
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On 05/24/18 19:30, awokd wrote:
don't understand it... it still gives me many errors, now again curl
error (6), so i can not update dom0

evo

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Jun 1, 2018, 7:17:31 AM6/1/18
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On 05/24/18 19:30, awokd wrote:
ok, i've updated dom0, but changing the Template VM of the sys-firewall
to Debian 9 (it was Fedora 26). Maby the errors come because of the old
Fedora 26.

the strange thing is:

error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.locl (Resource
temporarily unavailable
error: /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-25-primary: key 1 import failed

and the same problem on qubes-4.0-primary

why that??
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