Installation help please

[Bengt Thuree]

Hi All

I have just assembled my new Desktop consisting of the following main components.

Motherboard : Asus Prime A320M-E
CPU : AMD Ryze 7 2700 (No internal video handling)
GPU : GigaByte GeForce GT 1030
SSD : Samsung 970 Pro NVMe M.2
RAM : 16GB DDR4

First, this is my first attempt in installing Qubes, so I probably have made some stupid misstakes...

I downloaded the latest Qubes 4.0, and dd'it to my USB stick.
Confirmed the check sum was ok.

Booted up the qubes installer, and tried both options on first page (Install, Verify and Install).
None worked due to X-Issues.

Loads of Firmware Bug popped up.
X statup failed, aborting installation
(WARN anaconda: X startup failed, Xorg existed with status 1)
(DEBUG blivet: IGNORED: blivet.safe_dbus.DBusCalError: Failed to call Introspect method on /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/Manager with None arguments:
GDBus.Error.=:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 was not provided by any .service files)

The /tmp/X.log has the following info at the end.
Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Basic Graphics mode did not work either.

So this did not work, so I found some information on how to do it in the old fashion way, just text terminal.

I added inst.text to the boot prompt.
And I got further....

But now it stops on Partitioner don't have LUKS password!
1) Selected the SSD
2) Use all Space
3) LVM Thin Provisioning
---> And the following output appears
Generating updated storage configuration
storage configuration failed: autopart failed:
Encryption requested for LUKS device nvme0n1p2 but no encryption key specified for this device

I thought I could perhaps use a kickstart file (found reference to it via Google), but could not find the kickstart file on the SSD disk. I presume it is
created when installation starts, which it will not do since there is an Error checking storage configuration.
Some questions...

==> Q1 How do I get the graphical installer to work for me?
==> Q2 How do I input the encryption key when I use the text based installer?
==> Q3 How do I create and use a kickstart file?
==> Q4 I presume Qubes should work fine with my configuration?

Looking forward to any hints or tips or suggestions

Cheers

Bengt

[John S.Recdep]

On 08/17/2018 02:41 AM, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> Asus Prime A320M-E

you saw the HCL ?

ASUS PRIME H270-PLUS/CSM
i7-7700 Kaby Lake HD Graphics 0808 yes yes yes unknown R4.0 4.8.2
4.9.56-21

set BIOS to Legacy OPROM only

I realize its not a exact match but
https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/

the whole legacy v. uefi boot I don't see mentioned in your writeup
; & can be the 1st thing to try ; the crux of some installs

otherwise, another common Bios thing is to "disable discrete graphics"
if there exists such an option in the Bios, otherwise, ....it
shouldn't be that complicated .... unless your doing something special,
of which much of your writeup is beyond my level :)

[awokd]

On Fri, August 17, 2018 12:41 pm, Bengt Thuree wrote:

> GPU : GigaByte GeForce GT 1030

Try adding nouveau.modeset=0. See
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/nvidia-troubleshooting/#disabling-nouveau.

> ==> Q2 How do I input the encryption key when I use the text based
> installer?
> ==> Q3 How do I create and use a kickstart file?

These are good questions, but I don't know the answers!

> ==> Q4 I presume Qubes should work fine with my configuration?

There are a handful of people who got it running on Ryzen so it's probably
a question of if the motherboard/BIOS can handle it. Check
https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/.

[Bengt Thuree]

Thank you all for the suggestions.
I am not allowed to use legacy bios setting, so no can do :(
I want to use the nouveau drives, so I have some use of my gpu card.

Decided to wait a bit with Qubes, and get back to it later. In the mean time, back to OpenSuse for me.

Cheers