Hello again @51lieal - I went ahead and purchased the machine. I cannot get the QubesOS installer from GRUB to pass through and get a familiar error in the community: “Failed to start udev”. What were your relevant BIOS setting changes? So far I have:
Boot order to USB first
Use of “Dynamic Graphics” instead of “Discrete Graphics” from UEFI menu
Disable Secure Boot
Did you append anything to the Xen command line from GRUB like mentioned here?
UPDATE 1: Disabled UEFI and only enabled Legacy BIOS support and the “Failed to start udev” error went away entirely but I have been sitting at a black screen for 40+ minutes…
UPDATE 2: Screen finally after 2+ hours showed that /root could not be mounted and was unresponsive to a USB keyboard or on-board keyboard input, cursor is rapidly blinking about 10x faster than it normally would (I presume)
UPDATE 3: I tried the latest ISO from the test branch: Qubes OS openQA: qubesos-4.1-install-iso-x86_64-Build4.1.202303180203-install_default_kernel_latest@hw10 test results and can’t even get GRUB to show up
UPDATE 4: Found @51lieal comment which they should have put in the notes when reporting the YAML file update steps taken or linked to this comment: Qubes 4.1 on Legion 5 pro R7 5800H RTX3060 - #10 by 51lieal. Downloading the same ISO on the same hardware and will try to follow these exact steps. A link to this comment should be in the notes for the YAML. Will try once I have the beta ISO downloaded and BIOS is configured.
UPDATE 5: When editing the line for Install as suggested in UPDATE 4 I had to remove the part of the line which had i915.alpha_support=1 between plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles and quiet so now the part of the line is: plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles quiet i915.force_probe=* and I get a blank screen for 30+ minutes…
Wait! Something happened… no longer getting messy screen graphics. I think “Dynamic” and not “Discreet” might have been set somewhere but took me saving it again for it to take to the system
Are you able to image a disk with the Qubes-R4.1.2-x86_64.iso and check all the UEFI/BIOS settings you and I have are the same? The only difference would be you have 1660 vs I have 1650… Do I still need to add the i915.force_probe=* - this was a suggestion you had from a long time ago? I have added that and still udev failure…
Hmmmm… Any other things you think you may have enabled/disabled in the BIOS? I can turn off other features like Intel Thermal section etc. Also, did you have an external keyboard/monitor hooked up? Mouse? etc.
