Install media won't boot

[John Messina]

I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD image).  I have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and off.  At the boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and "troubleshoot".  All have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and then immediately comes back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the install from working?  The laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor.

Thanks in advance!

John

[hugh...@gmail.com]

I have a similar problem. In my case I don't even get the installation menu. The computer tries to boot from the usb stick and eventually gives up and boots the old operating system. I tried using linux dd to begin with but when that didn't work I used Rufus as recommended but the result was the same.
Any clues anyone?

[hugh...@gmail.com]

Is there any way to analyse the boot. I can't see a thing so have no idea what the problem might be. How can I retrieve log or error data?

[Frank Schäckermann]

You are making sure, you are writing the data to the device and not to a partition on it, right?

The dd command ought to be:

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX

and NOT

dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX1

Regards, Frank

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[John Messina]

I've confirmed that there isn't a problem with the installation USB drive.  I successfully used the same drive to install Qubes on a different PC.  I'm not sure why this PC isn't happy, but I know it has something to do with the PC itself.  My guess is that there is something wrong with the configuration of the PC that is preventing zen from starting.

[hugh...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina wrote:

So it turns out the installation media is fine and I can boot from another computer. Just like John, the machine I want to use doesn't work.
I've made sure it supports vt-x and vt-d and they are set in the bios. I've already installed the latest xen on this machine so I wonder what the problem is.
It there a way to see what's going on as I get no display whatsoever?

Hugh

[raah...@gmail.com]

check bios for legacy boot setting which works better with qubes. or check for external drive boot settings somehwere.