Re: [qubes-users] Dell G5 5590 no boot device found (noob user)

[Mike Keehan]

Please don't top post, and please reply to the list.

On 3/19/20 4:00 PM, MICHAIL PITSAKIS wrote:
> Thank you for coming back to me. I really appreciate your input and help.
>
> Did your "dd'ing" wipe out the disk partition tables?
> -> I wouldn't know. How can i check ? What would the difference be if it
> did or not? How should i proceed in each case?
>
> You may need to boot from some other Linux distro and sort out the disk
> partioning first.
>  -> What do you mean by sorting out the disk partitioning first? Would
> you be able to elaborate a bit?
> I did run xubuntu and tried to follow the cp -r /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/.
> /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT but it says that the file does not exist so i cant go
> any further.
> I already tried to install Xubuntu as you suggested but i'm having the
> same problem. I go through the initial installation and after the first
> reboot i run into "no boot device found" again.
>
> Mike
>

What dd command line did you use? And specifically, to what device?

If you don't understand what partitions are, you need to use google to
find out. It's nothing to do with Qubes, just the normal setup of
disks.

Mike.