Initial Setup screen doesn't appear

I followed the installation steps on Installation guide | Qubes OS, but the “initial setup” screen never appeared before the operating system booted up. Within Qubes Manager, only dom0 is present and there are no templates. I’ve been struggling with this for two days now, reinstalling both versions 4.1 and 4.2 multiple times, but encountering the same issue each time. After installing version 4.2, I opened a console via xterm and tried the code from https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubes-wont-boot-up-following-a-sucessful-install/21793:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt 
cp -r /mnt/EFI/qubes/* /mnt/EFI/BOOT/ 
mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi 
mv /mnt/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.cfg 
umount

However, I received an error like “usage: mount.” The system did not show any errors during installation, but the “initial setup” screen never appeared. After completing the installation, I restarted the system, and the disk where I installed is split into two parts: one labeled “UEFI qubes os” and the other “qubes os.” I tried both options, but the result remained unchanged.

You can try to run the Initial Setup manually by running this command in dom0 terminal:

sudo /usr/libexec/initial-setup/initial-setup-graphical
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It worked! thank you so much