Black screen after installation / rescue doesn't work / boot loop after successful installation

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Hello there,

I installed Qubes on a Lenovo T530 laptop. Used a usb stick. After the first installation I encountered the error described here:

I tried booting into recovery mode with the method described here:

However, that didn’t work, this is what happens:

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Now, I have reinstalled Qubes and did the other option described in the first link, that is I ctrl+alt+f2’d after installation before first restart, then editet xen.cfg:

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So far so good, now I have a running Qubes installation. However, booting into recovery mode still doesn’t work.
While booting at this stage the following message pops up:

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But as long as all I do is boot and browse, it behaves fine and reboots with only the above message, always the same.

However, after updating, the system no longer boots, instead goes into the following loop:

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Recovery mode still doesn’t work, still exact same issue (image above actually taken at this stage).

I’m afraid I’m not a linux person, I have no expertise in this. Getting to edit the cfg in vi was already out of my comfort zone at the time.
Please help.
Can we fix it?

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So the main problem is that after updating the system no longer boots.
In order to be able to fix that once it occurs, I would need rescue mode, which doesn’t work. That is the secondary problem.

Btw concerning the Load Kernel Modules error I got this

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but I fail to understand what information I should gain from that

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So I did the updates one by one, I had a hunch it was the dom0 update that breaks the installation. Unfortunately that is true.
I can update any other qube, but if I want to update dom0 it breaks.
I did it all once again and now it works, no idea what’s different but that’s okay. Now I have an up to date Qubes-OS set up.

At no point did the rescue mode work, unfortunately :frowning: still…

Also what’s still there is the Load Kernel Modules error described above… anyone?