New installation of Qubes OS stopped booting for no reason?

[bill...@gmail.com]

So, I had installed Qubes 4 on a triple boot laptop (Win 10, Netrunner linux, Qubes OS). It had installed fine, and I had booted up in Qubes three or four times, played with the VMS, ran firefox, poked around a little, and was happy. Then I got busy with some other stuff and set it aside, and worked mostly in Netrunner for my "real" work.

Today, I come back to it, and Qubes won't boot. I get the following errors on the boot screen:

Failed to load kernal modules
<stuff comes up>
Kfd: kgd2kfd_probe failed
<some stuff comes up>
Reached target basic system

<then stall for a few minutes>

<some number> dracut - initqueue[334]: Warning: dracut-initque time out - starting timeout script

<the above repeats with advancing numbers a zillion times>

Could not boot
/dev/mapper/qubes_dom0_root does not exist
/dev/qubes_dome0/root does not exist

and I'm dumped into the rescue prompt.

This has repeated three times. I tried taking out my usb mouse (which has caused problems in the past, though not this), but that didn't change anything.

Is this some configuration thing, or did aliens from outer space corrupt my partition with their evil laptop killer ray and I need to reinstall -- I don't mind, since I'm just playing around with Qubes, but I'd rather fix it...

Thanks!

billo

[cooloutac]

Maybe one of the other os's did. Maybe qubes dom0 updated its kernel and its no longer recognized by whatever grub you are using?

[awokd]

On Thu, April 19, 2018 6:05 pm, bill...@gmail.com wrote:

>
> Could not boot
> /dev/mapper/qubes_dom0_root does not exist
> /dev/qubes_dome0/root does not exist
>
>
> and I'm dumped into the rescue prompt.
>
> This has repeated three times. I tried taking out my usb mouse (which
> has caused problems in the past, though not this), but that didn't change
> anything.
>
> Is this some configuration thing, or did aliens from outer space corrupt
> my partition with their evil laptop killer ray and I need to reinstall --
> I don't mind, since I'm just playing around with Qubes, but I'd rather
> fix it...

Do you remember if you installed an update last time? Should be in
/var/log/dnf* logs if you can get to it.

[john]

sounds a bit like my meltdown in Q4 ; did you try the troubleshooting
choice then #1 enter LUKS passphrase from the installation media ?
in my case it failed, and I finally gave up, after Awokd kind of
confirmed I was SOOL or so

[bill...@gmail.com]

Thanks everybody for the replies. I apologize for the delay in responding -- I've been traveling and just got off the plane on the last leg of the trip.

I had not installed any updates in Qubes, afaik, but did install upgrades in both Netrunner and Windows. Yes, my troubleshooting failed also. No big deal -- I'll reinstall when I get a chance.