as many other people, I’m stuck at the installation boot with the well known error: cancel-multipath-wait
I tried qubes 4.3RC, 4.2.4 4.21, I tried kernel-latest and normal install, I tried nomodeset and “inst.noverifysll rd.multipath=0”. none of them work.
can somebody please tell me how to boot the installation?
boot mode is UEFI with secure mode OFF. AMD security module is on.
The usb stick has been created with rufus on windows, MBR partition scheme and UEFI (non CSM).
qubes was on this laptop before, so I’m pretty sure it’s possible to install it somehow
thanks
Did you used “dd” copying mode in Rufus?
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I don’t want to seem rude, but fuck Rufus.
I just installed QubesOS myself a few days ago and only had problems with Rufus.
Use the Fedora Mediawriter. This is available for Linux, Windows, MacOS and you can simply enter the QubesOS.iso there and have it written to the stick. The program also checks afterwards that everything has been correctly written to the stick.
Good luck
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Scroll down until you see Fedora Media Writer
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turns out I needed to enable DD writing mode on rufus when creating the image. weird. all other images always worked perfectly with the default mode!
Because it’s not fat32 and if you save files to ntfs/fat32 it loose permissions and won’t work in linux. You could have files in archive which could preserve permissions.
But it was decision of QubesOS to not have installation files in ntfs/fat32 filesystem and it’s specifically stated in install instruction: use dd to make installation usb. dd is coping bytes not files so it preserves exactly of original formats.