Recently i had bios update after that qubes os boot option disappeared i tried to reinstall qubes but its showing floppy not found. I kown you’ll faulty installer media i tried with 2 diffrent usb same error every time. i can install the qubes 4.2 rc version but the stable 4.1. help!!
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anon30312169:
boot option disappeared
This looks similar to these threads, which could hopefully help you:
Problem: Qubes OS entry disappeared from the boot menu.
I had installed Qubes concurrent with a Windows 10 installation and another Linux and the boot menu listed all 3. Everything worked fine. But one day I took out the drive, put in another and booted from that, and then put the original drive back in. From then on, the boot menu only had Windows and the other Linux, but Qubes OS had mysteriously disappeared. No software was installed during this time.
I was able to follow the ‘Installation …
Perhaps these could help:
I could install Qubes successfully to my ssd and used it for over 1 week with no problems. then, when I removed the ssd containing qubes to format my windows 10 in the other ssd, I plugged the ssd containing qubes again and now qubes no longer appears in the boot menu in the bios, even though the SSD is recognized by the bios.
I have read the UEFI troubleshooting | Qubes OS (qubes-os.org) page and saw similiar threads describing the same problem, but I when I ran the commands instructed it gave…