Ok, I'm lost. Dracut timeout, emergency shell. Trying to install.

[Dylan Garcia]

Specs:

GTX 1060 6GB AMD Ryzen 9 3900x Asus X470 Strix-f Gaming 32GB G.Skill Trident DDR4

I'm trying to install.

Normal boot cycles the display on and off. Flashes dracut-pre-udev[609]: rp.idmapd: conf_reinit: open ("(null)", 0_RDONLY) failed. Nouveau fix causes three dots to appear and then X startup fails. No graphics mode same thing. No graphics mode and commenting out those two lines in the bootx64.cfg managed to get me into the dracut terminal, but I'm getting dracut-initqueue timeout errors.

I'm using the latest version of Qubes. Anyone have any idea? Virtualization is enabled in bios, both types. Rufus is DD mode. I've tried two separate downloads too.

[Rob Janes]

that happened to me when i tried to install 4.0.3 in uefi mode.  i don't think it says 4.0.3 works with uefi.  anyways, installing with legacy works.

however - it will break your system.  probably.  maybe you'll have better luck than i did.  if you want to proceed,

mount the EPS file system.

save the /EFI/Boot folder, especially bootx64.efi.

sgdisk -b save_the_gpt /dev/xxxx

xxxx is your main disk

dd if=/dev/xxxx bs=512 count=1 | tee mbr-backup.raw | xxd > mbr-backup.hexdump

have a bootable linux usb or sd.  qube os messes up the partition table and my bios no longer recognized the disk for uefi boots.  none of the dual boot partitions on your hard drive will boot.

install qube os

reboot.

if you can't reboot into anything else, fix stuff as follows.

boot into the bootable linux

dd if=/dev/xxxx bs=512 count=1 | xxd > mbr.hexdump

edit it to change the 0x80 at offset 0x1be to 0x00

xxd -r < mbr.hexdump | dd of=/dev/xxxx bs=512 count=1

i don't think any regular partition tools will let you do that.  they all see the gpt and let you edit that.  you cannot go and fiddle with the legacy mbr.  but if you could, all you'd have to do is make the first partition in the mbr unbootable (inactive).

once i flipped the bit from 1 to 0, my disk was recognized again.

i haven't figured out how to make qube os bootable after that.  but i'm sure it's easier than figuring out which bit to flip.