Lenovo Yoga 920 Hypervisor not starting
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I am trying to install Qubes and have tried 3.2 and 4.0-rc5.
In both cases the hypervisor does not start but halts after five lines and the processor still running heavy for a while. The only screen output I get (4.0-rc5)
"
Xen 4.8.3 (c/s ) EFI loader
Using configuration file 'BOOTX64.cfg'
vmlinuz: 0x00.....(some numbers)
initrd.img: 0x0000....(more numbers)
0x0000:0x00:0x02.0x0: ROM: 0x10000 bytes at 0x2d...(numbers)
"
The same happens on 3.2, but I get the GRUB menu first. This did not help:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/#cannot-start-installation-installation-completes-successfully-but-then-bios-loops-at-boot-device-selection-hangs-at-four-penguins-after-choosing-test-media-and-install-qubes-os-in-grub-menu
I have also gone to BIOS to enable USB boot and disable Secure boot (Legacy doesn't appear to be an option)
I installed Fedora and set up Qubes on my USB, both as instructed in the installation guide and in the guide for Lenovo thinkpads:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad-troubleshooting
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/installation-guide/#copying-the-iso-onto-the-installation-medium
I have tried the same in a macOS (terminal) and Windows (Rufus) environment.
I would *really* like Qubes to work, and would be exhilarated if it does eventually.
Sincerely,
Troubled Qubes fan
Yuraeitha
Keep looking for other replies and fix suggestions here in the future, but for now I'd suggest trying this.
I recently inspected a Lenovo 720 for a short time in the BIOS, I noticed the UEFI boot selecting between LegacyBIOS/UEFI was grayed out, and from another experience a year or so ago I had to switch some BIOS settings to allow to enable LegacyBIOS. Sometimes you need to re-start the BIOS/PC to make changes take effect too. Since you probably have a grayed out UEFI boot-selection in the boot menu, chances are it's a setting that needs changing, to allow LegacyBIOS to be selected. Which setting, is hard to say, I don't have that knowledge on hand, but it's probably a UEFI related setting which can't be enabled while LegacyBIOS is used. Be careful you don't change anything risky if you're trial and error'ing this though.
Keep trying, you might get it working in the end, whether it's by UEFI or LegacyBIOS. It might be worth it to see if you can get LegacyBIOS enabled.
Yuraeitha
http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-were-ending-all-legacy-bios-support-by-2020/
This article seems very unfortunate, it might be that LegacyBIOS can have been purged on your machine. You might want to look it up, there must be some discussions for Linux in general on the Yoga 920 who wants to use LegacyBIOS, so you should be able to find a discussion if you dig long enough after it in the search engines.