Installing qubes -hard drive detection problem
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1. I burned the image as DD on my usb with Rufus
2. Turned off secure boot in BIOS
3. Booted successfully from the usb
4. Proceeded with the installation
5. While choosing the installation device there was no device detected.
Am I missing anything here that I have to do before installation. Really having a hard time solving this issue.
cooloutac
what hdd you installing to? how is it attached, shows up in bios? whats your pc specs? what is hdd settings in bios? legacy boot mode? you dual booting?
Did you do a integrity check from the qubes menu before installing? Check key sigs before burning iso?
Maybe try this program instead of rufus: https://www.netbsd.org/~martin/rawrite32/
even better use dd from a linux machine if possible.
Mystic Buyer
I am trying to install it on my Dell xps 15 9560 - 16GB DDR, 512GB SSD. I am trying to install it on the SSD on my laptop, its a Toshiba make it is set to RAID enabled in Bios, booting in UEFI mode. Any pointers on how to check the integrity of the qubes os. I did the first option to check if qubes is original before installing but it gave up on me and froze, so I suppose I'll have to do it by comparing my self. I tried installing on my Acer Aspire V, which is of much lower architecture with 6GB DDR and lower specs than xps 15 and it was installed and working good except the touch pad isn't recognized. I am wondering what is wrong with my xps 15. Any suggestions? And also pointers on checking the Integrity of Qubes.
cooloutac
Don't set it to raid if only a single drive try AHCI if installing Qubes only on the drive. Also try legacy boot mode instead of uefi if your bios have the option. The installer should verify the files automatically but its one of the options next to install qubes when the usb first boots. Is that what you mean that it froze? that shouldn't happen.
Mystic Buyer
Thank you for the quick reply. So I did think about changing from RAID to AHCI, but I am not sure how I should go about it safely if anything could go wrong with the os.
There is an option for Legacy boot mode but I think since I am able to boot into the installer that shouldn't be a problem, or is it?
And yes I did select the verify qubes before the install qubes option, and it did for upto 8% and it said it failed and froze on me.
Just to make sure that the problem was with the internal ssd not being recognized I connected via a usb and external HDD and qubes did recognized that in the installation destination page. So I really don't know how should I get internal disk to be detected for installation.