Boot problem that I created!

[Patrick Bouldin]

Hi Qubes fans.
Ok, my royal mistake - not realizing I had a keyboard error and in trying to fix the computer I created other issues. Now my system is not booting to Qubes. When I didn't realize I had a keyboard issue I changed secure boot mode back a few times, among other things. Here's what I did:

So, I tried these scenarios:
Legacy Support enabled, Secure boot disabled. It asks for a new four digit code, and then reboot - nothing but black screen. Honestly, I do not remember if I had secure boot running before!

Then this try:
Legacy Support Disabled, Secure boot disabled.
Result: "Boot device not found - install an OS on your hard disk"

Then this try:
Legacy support Disabled, Secure boot enabled - Same result as above, no boot device found.

Finally this try:
Legacy support enable, secure boot enabled - it won't allow this combination.

So then I boot to the USB - Qubes - and selected the recovery option:
(Legacy support disabled, secure boot disabled) - it said a changed in OS was detected, I had to confirm with a four digit key.

Then Qubes loaded and I continued to rescue mode.
It asked for my LUKS passphrase, this is the same as my disk encryption right?
So I entered that.

Then it displayed this prompt:

sh-4.3#

Is that my hard drive Qubes it found?

Any suggestions on what to do from here would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Patrick

[Vít Šesták]

> Legacy Support enabled, Secure boot disabled. It asks for a new four digit code, and then reboot - nothing but black screen.

What asks for the code?

> Honestly, I do not remember if I had secure boot running before!

AFAIK it is not supported on Qubes.

> Legacy Support Disabled, Secure boot disabled.
Result: "Boot device not found - install an OS on your hard disk"

Looks like you have either installed Qubes using legacy boot or you have messed up the UEFI config.

> Legacy support enable, secure boot enabled - it won't allow this combination.

That's OK, secure boot requires UEFI boot.

> It asked for my LUKS passphrase, this is the same as my disk encryption right?

Yes, it is.

> Is that my hard drive Qubes it found?

The rescue mounts system to /mnt/sysimage or something like it. It should write you a message in a messagebox or maybe as a message in the console. (I don't remember it exactly.) And it also informs you how to chroot.

Regards,
Vít Šesták 'v6ak'