Q3.2 installation issues - x not starting on XPS13 HVW8J

[Niels ten Oever]

Hello all,

Merry christmas and thanks a lot for your awesome work on Qubes. I have
been trying to install Qubes R3.2-x86_64 on my XPS 13 - 9360HVW8J with a
Intel Core i7-7500U, but I've run into some problems. (My specific
laptop model is not mentioned in the HCL [0]).

Firstly the x server is not starting.

Secondly the text-based installer is running in a loop when I try set
the installation destination I run into the following error:

'Encryption requested for LUKS device nvme0n1p2 but no encryption key
specified for this device', which seems to be a upstream problem [0]

I read about a kickstart file , but that seems to be for an older
version (Qubes R2) [1].

Any suggestions on how I could get this working? Thanks much in advance.

Cheers,

Niels



[0]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/-9qRHSkwfy8/CCx08nnTVEAJ
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020345
[2]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/-9qRHSkwfy8/CCx08nnTVEAJ

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[Niels ten Oever]

Hi all,

Things I've tried thusfar:

- I tried in EFI and legacy mode,

- I verified the Internet Core I7 7500 Kaby Lake processor does VT-D and
VT-X [0] and both are switched on in the bios.

- I've added nomodeset as a kernel option in xen.cfg

Still no luck with getting xserver to start during install process.

Any other hints? Would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Niels

[0]
https://ark.intel.com/products/95451/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz-

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> On 12/24/2016 01:52 PM, Niels ten Oever wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Merry christmas and thanks a lot for your awesome work on Qubes. I have
> > been trying to install Qubes R3.2-x86_64 on my XPS 13 - 9360HVW8J with a
> > Intel Core i7-7500U, but I've run into some problems. (My specific
> > laptop model is not mentioned in the HCL [0]).
> >
> > Firstly the x server is not starting.
> >
> > Secondly the text-based installer is running in a loop when I try set
> > the installation destination I run into the following error:
> >
> > 'Encryption requested for LUKS device nvme0n1p2 but no encryption key
> > specified for this device', which seems to be a upstream problem [0]
> >
> > I read about a kickstart file , but that seems to be for an older
> > version (Qubes R2) [1].
> >
> > Any suggestions on how I could get this working? Thanks much in advance.
>

> Hi all,
>
> Things I've tried thusfar:
>
> - I tried in EFI and legacy mode,
>
> - I verified the Internet Core I7 7500 Kaby Lake processor does VT-D and
> VT-X [0] and both are switched on in the bios.
>
> - I've added nomodeset as a kernel option in xen.cfg
>
> Still no luck with getting xserver to start during install process.
>
> Any other hints? Would be much appreciated!

The kickstart way should still work. Other thing to try, is to take out
the disk, install in other machine and then put it back. Or, if that's
hard for hardware reasons (for example you don't have other machine
supporting nvme), install to USB stick (set the same partition size as
the target disk), then transfer installed system to your target machine
(just dd the whole disk).

> [0]
> https://ark.intel.com/products/95451/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-Processor-4M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz-

> > [0]
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/-9qRHSkwfy8/CCx08nnTVEAJ
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1020345
> > [2]
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/-9qRHSkwfy8/CCx08nnTVEAJ
> >
>

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[nie...@gmail.com]

Op woensdag 28 december 2016 21:47:00 UTC+1 schreef Marek Marczykowski-Górecki:

Thanks! I made some progress! By adding 'intremap=nosid,no_x2apic_optout intel_iommu=on' to the kernel option and booting in EFI mode I managed to get the X started. Hurray!

Now I am in the installation process and am unfortunately not able to select and Installation Destination. (Even though there is a 512 GB SSD drive in the device, which I could see/select in text mode).

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Niels

[nie...@gmail.com]

Op zaterdag 31 december 2016 11:24:33 UTC+1 schreef li...@digitaldissidents.org:

Disable RAID ON and changing it to AHCI will do the trick! Finally installing #excited