"S5520HC S5500HCV S5520HCT S5520SC BIOS Recovery Package for EFI"
Maybe this is the problem, that my bios in some reason could working always with EFI mode even if I change it on 'Disable' in bios menu?
When i started again today my usual working way: Xen 4.6.6 Linux 4.4.14-11.pvops.qubes.x86_64
I could imprint one error: https://prnt.sc/ijhwya
Is there a connection between my current problem and this error?
I wanted to go with a Lenova from 2008 or prior, a freedom fighting association out of the UK puts them together and sells them and claims that they are pretty much the freest thing you can get. But with how slow they likely are I thought I'd rather get something a little more modern. The new TPM chips are pretty cool too, will see where that goes. How do you like yours? Did you do it all yourself or get it as is? Was it hard to get to its current state where you feel like you are literally in complete control of everything? Pretty sure Purism is the same but I could be wrong about something. I'm just getting into all this really.
Thanks again for your insight :)
After following the links, I see that yes I had already visited those, however they do lead to other important links to be sure, so thank you. The ones you sent me explain how to install through the terminal, I believe, whereas I was hoping to simply transfer the file from my stick over to the computer and then simply hit install. Is the only option that I use the terminal, do you know?
Thanks
Sorry yes I'll start a new thread in the future, sorry it's just I responded while you were responding so I didn't see that you had left your message. I thought it had been published so I was busy doing other stuff and when I came back I saw that it had detected my email and wasn't actually published, which explain the time discrepancy. Thanks, will start a new thread of course.
Lenovo laptops from 2008 or prior most likely have CPUs without the vt-d/IOMMU feature support, so they are not supported for production systems in Qubes R4.0 and later.
Brendan