Does Not Boot After Install (Desktop MSI Z490-A PRO i7)

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Sorry to be that honest with you - no bad feelings I hope… :slight_smile:

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@nyg33

Any luck with this? This is the same issue I am facing

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I had this problem. And suddenly after my last desperate install it stared to work …
But what fixed it?

Could it be

  1. I destroyed all partitions on my internal hard disk (SSD) using the advanced partition manager
    I then created

(EFI partition)/boot/efi 750MB (ie less than a 1GB)
(EXT4) / 400GB
(Swap) 75GB

  1. I went into the bios. Set the password. Which allowed me to access the EFI settings. And click the reset everything button. “Erase all EFI boot settings”

  2. I DID NOT set my language/keyboard to Australian. I only set the date time. Everything else was US.

Item 3 may seem trivial. But 17 years ago it was what stopped me from installing Linux from scratch (LFS). If you think about it all the testers are probably American. So what are the chances they have picked up a bug when you choose a non default setting?

Anyway. Hope this helps.

Pointless trivia

  • Acer laptop 16GB 512 SSD I3 intel chipset
  • I downloaded the iso twice
  • I used rufus as instructed from a windows machine to burn the 16GB usb
  • F2 gets me the bios screen. In the bios settings
    – I turned off fast boot
    – I enabled F12 boot choice menu
    – I had to set the password to get to the EFI menu (password set to password - don’t tell anyone)
    – I hit the delete all EFI data

After the successfull boot to qubes from my interal ssd hard disk I went into the bios (F2)

  • EFI boot priority order now does not have windows in it.
  • Boot priority has only 1 entry and they are weird characters (I did a reset)
  • EFI and secure boot enabled.
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