Can't boot into qubesos

[fywex]

So I downloaded qubesos restarted then put my passphrase in but the bar loading is being stuck in the end
I tried doing what some posts in here suggested which where going into grub options pressing ‘e’ and editing this file by deleting “rhgb”, “quiet” then adding nomodeset at the end of the line (I tried a few other thinks to add I saw that were suggested) but it got me to the same point where it logs my usb devices then gets stuck at the end and does nothing.
I would love to get some help

gpu: rtx 5070

[otter2]

Are there any errors?

[fywex]

no, its just stuck at the end of the bar

[ChrisA]

Hi fywex - and welcome to the forum!

When you edit the GRUB menu and remove quiet, does it then print any debug information? If so … will you share the messages/text?

Apart from the the GPU, does your machine have other parts? like motherboard/CPU/net card/WiFi/… if it’s a laptop, can/will you share the make/model?

[Atrate]

@ChrisA

does it then

Press Escape while the bar is still moving to see the full boot logs

[fywex]

This would be the debug info

and my specs are:
mobo: asrock pg z790 lightning wifi
cpu: i7 14700k
ram: crucial ddr5 pro
network card: Killer E3100G 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

tnx for the help guys

[brain_frog]

Hey @fywex

1. Could you 1) append qubes.skip_autostart to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in GRUB before booting; 2) enter your LUKS passphrase; 3) press Esc again like you just did and 4) send a screenshot of the output from the console? Skipping VMs autostart has a chance to allow us to debug further — there might be a problem with some of your devices that could’ve gotten hidden by verbosity settings. If you didn’t get “unstuck”, see my next steps.

2. While at the “stuck” screen, can you try hitting Ctrl + Alt + F2 or Ctrl + Alt + Fn + F2 (try F3 too in both cases) and see if you get into a login TTY? We’ll see if you booted but lost the GUI.

3. Our last resort is to boot straight into text mode bypassing the GUI all-together: before booting, append systemd.unit=multi-user.target to the same GRUB line mentioned above and see if that gets you in.

[fywex]

Hey, so after appending qubes.skip_autostart this is what I got

and when I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F2 I got into this screen then was able to login

[fywex]

[brain_frog]

Perfect. Do this (and send the screenshots):

• systemctl list-jobs (to see what is stuck in start or running forever)
• systemctl status lightdm – that will tell us what display manager has to say
• do journalctl -u lightdm -b as well
• Xorg might’ve failed to spin up, so try grep -E "(EE)|(WW)" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
• and finally, sudo dmesg | grep -iE "drm|kms|nouveau|nvidia|driver|fail|error|device|firmware" – I am 99% sure this is NVIDIA and its drivers being the final most evil boss which is like what NVIDIA always does

[fywex]

should I do it in this terminal I managed to open after pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2?

[brain_frog]

yup, that’s right

[fywex]

this is for the 4 first commands

[fywex]

and this is for the last one

[ChrisA]

I believe @brain_frog is on the right track – but just so I can learn a bit more:

Can you try (and share the output from):
lspci | grep -i VGA
lsmod | grep -E "nouveau|nvidia"
?

[fywex]

[ChrisA]

Can you also try:

lspci -s 01:00.0 -v

?

[fywex]

[fywex]

tnx again for the help its really appreciated

[Atrate]

@fywex Does your PC have an integrated graphics card with your CPU or do you only have a dGPU? Also, Qubes OS r4.3 came out recently and I believe it would be a good idea for you to try installing that, as it will be easier than trying to upgrade from r4.2.