Thinkpad T410 installation issues

[Jessica K. Litwin]

Hi,

Apologies if this is a double post, my first one doesn't appear to have made it to the forum.

I am trying to install Qubes on a Thinkpad T410 which is supported by the HCL but:

imgur.com/a/nGDtz

With the top image is my attempt at booting the graphical installer. I'm pretty sure this is just an incorrectly set graphics mode, but so far my attempts to set it with gfxpayload= or vga= have been unsuccessful.

The second image is what happens if I attempt to install in VGA graphics mode. After setting all my options, the installer croaks.

What can I do to get a successful installation?

[pixel fairy]

try this, https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad_x201/

[pixel fairy]

on my thinkpad, didnt have to do the 2nd part with the mouse settings. yours is newer, so you probably wont have to either.

[Jessica K. Litwin]

That got me going. Thank you. :)

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-08-08 17:17, Jessica K. Litwin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Apologies if this is a double post, my first one doesn't appear to have
> made it to the forum.
>

Looks like your first message got caught in the spam filter. Sorry about that.
You're whitelisted now.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[Jessica K. Litwin]

As a follow up to this:

When I try to boot the newly installed OS all I get is a blinking cursor. I don't believe this is a UEFI bios problem, but I am going to attempt to reinstall with different installation media in case there was an issue there.

[Frank Schäckermann]

Have you tried to just put your disk encryption password in at that point and hit enter? With some GPUs and driver combinations it has happened in the past, that the Luks password prompt just doesn't show properly.

One could call this an additional security feature. ;-)

Regards, Frank

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[Jessica Litwin]

Hi,

Just a quick update, I was able to get qubes installed with the help of some different media (my original media was faulty) and I am up and running. I do have one question though:

With vt-d off, my system works fine, however I would like to enable vt-d.  So, I do the steps outlined [https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad_x201/]  thus for iommu=no-gfx but when I enable vt-d the display is still garbled.

While I am still going to try and troubleshoot this issue on my own if anyone has any insight it would be appreciated.

P.S.: Is there an easy way to set my capslock as control in all my VM's? It's driving me a bit nuts :)

// jkl

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Frank Schäckermann <fr...@schaeckermann.net> wrote:

> On 09.08.2016, at 06:30, Jessica K. Litwin jessica-at-litw.in |qubes-mailing-list/Example Allow| <j58rv...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 8:17:12 PM UTC-4, Jessica K. Litwin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Apologies if this is a double post, my first one doesn't appear to have made it to the forum.
>>
>> I am trying to install Qubes on a Thinkpad T410 which is supported by the HCL but:
>>
>> imgur.com/a/nGDtz
>>
>> With the top image is my attempt at booting the graphical installer. I'm pretty sure this is just an incorrectly set graphics mode, but so far my attempts to set it with gfxpayload= or vga= have been unsuccessful.
>>
>> The second image is what happens if I attempt to install in VGA graphics mode. After setting all my options, the installer croaks.
>>
>> What can I do to get a successful installation?
>
> As a follow up to this:
>
> When I try to boot the newly installed OS all I get is a blinking cursor. I don't believe this is a UEFI bios problem, but I am going to attempt to reinstall with different installation media in case there was an issue there.

Have you tried to just put your disk encryption password in at that point and hit enter? With some GPUs and driver combinations it has happened in the past, that the Luks password prompt just doesn't show properly.

One could call this an additional security feature. ;-)

Regards, Frank

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[Jessica Litwin]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Jessica Litwin <jes...@litw.in> wrote:

Hi,

Just a quick update, I was able to get qubes installed with the help of some different media (my original media was faulty) and I am up and running. I do have one question though:

With vt-d off, my system works fine, however I would like to enable vt-d.  So, I do the steps outlined [https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad_x201/]  thus for iommu=no-gfx but when I enable vt-d the display is still garbled.

While I am still going to try and troubleshoot this issue on my own if anyone has any insight it would be appreciated.

P.S.: Is there an easy way to set my capslock as control in all my VM's? It's driving me a bit nuts :)

I fixed the capslock. apparently setting it in dom0 startup does the busines, dunno why i thought it should be per-vm, but apparently i need more sleep :)

[Jessica Litwin]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Jessica Litwin <jes...@litw.in> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 4:57 AM, Jessica Litwin <jes...@litw.in> wrote:

Hi,

Just a quick update, I was able to get qubes installed with the help of some different media (my original media was faulty) and I am up and running. I do have one question though:

With vt-d off, my system works fine, however I would like to enable vt-d.  So, I do the steps outlined [https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/thinkpad_x201/]  thus for iommu=no-gfx but when I enable vt-d the display is still garbled.

While I am still going to try and troubleshoot this issue on my own if anyone has any insight it would be appreciated.

P.S.: Is there an easy way to set my capslock as control in all my VM's? It's driving me a bit nuts :)

I fixed the capslock. apparently setting it in dom0 startup does the busines, dunno why i thought it should be per-vm, but apparently i need more sleep :)

NVM. ID10T error detected. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX != GRUB_CMDLINE_XEN_DEFAULT

tl;dr i should be sleeping not setting up this laptop.  But I do have an intelligent question:

dom0 seems to only use about half a gig of RAM; is there any reason it's allocated half my system RAM (4gb) to itself?  Is there any harm in adjusting dom0_mem=max: to something a little less.... lots?

// jkl

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 05:13:07AM -0400, Jessica Litwin wrote:
> dom0 seems to only use about half a gig of RAM; is there any reason it's
> allocated half my system RAM (4gb) to itself? Is there any harm in
> adjusting dom0_mem=max: to something a little less.... lots?

In practice dom0 memory is dynamically allocated, up to the 4GB (4GiB?)
limit. So there is no much need to adjusting this limit manually. But
there are some benefits of having it smaller - kernel needs to allocate
some metadata for every memory page (up to the limit), so you can save
few MBs by lowering the limit. Not a big deal.
On the other hand, having the limit too small will mean dom0 will use
swap, which will make the whole system a lot slower.

TL;DR if you have 8GB in total, don't bother. For smaller total memory,
it may help setting the limit to 2GB.

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Invisible Things Lab
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