Black Screen when trying install on Lenovo E15 Gen 2

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

Just a short note: Both Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso and Qubes-R4.1.0-alpha20201014-x86_64.iso produce a black screen after Xen loads the kernel on a Lenovo E15 Gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 4700 (8 cores, Radeon graphics) CPU.

Also Qubes 4.1 requires secure Boot to be disabled. Maybe time to change the boot loader?

Regards,
Ulrich

[awokd]

Ulrich Windl:

> Hi!
>
> Just a short note: Both Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso and Qubes-R4.1.0-alpha20201014-x86_64.iso produce a black screen after Xen loads the kernel on a Lenovo E15 Gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 4700 (8 cores, Radeon graphics) CPU.
>
> Also Qubes 4.1 requires secure Boot to be disabled. Maybe time to change the boot loader?

Might need to disable noexitboot and mapbs per
https://www.mail-archive.com/qubes...@googlegroups.com/msg36528.html.

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[Ulrich Windl]

On 4/14/21 6:01 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote:
> Ulrich Windl:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Just a short note: Both Qubes-R4.0.4-x86_64.iso and
>> Qubes-R4.1.0-alpha20201014-x86_64.iso produce a black screen after Xen
>> loads the kernel on a Lenovo E15 Gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 4700 (8
>> cores, Radeon graphics) CPU.
>>
>> Also Qubes 4.1 requires secure Boot to be disabled. Maybe time to
>> change the boot loader?
>
> Might need to disable noexitboot and mapbs per
> https://www.mail-archive.com/qubes...@googlegroups.com/msg36528.html.
>

Thanks for the hint! I wonder why other live-systems work out of the box.
However to be honest: There is a problem with the display not turning on
again after hibernate/resume, and the special function keys (like WLAN,
microphone, volume, brightness) don't work either.
I was lucky to get that hardware; they say next shipment will be in
October! Maybe it's just corona-homeoffice-madness, I don't know...

Ulrich