My adventures with Qubes 4.1.1 on a Lenovo T14 Gen 3

[ChrisA]

Yes - that’s the efibootmgr that fails to add the boot option:

@ChrisA

Running the installer, everything is fine, until Qubes tries to run efibootmgr and warns me, that the system will not be able to boot … but that can be fixed, so I just continue and reboots.

As warned, the machines won’t boot … but booting a live system (eg. SystemRescueCD) it can be fixed with:

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/
efibootmgr -c -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1 -L "QUBES" -l '\EFI\qubes\grubx64.efi'

Since Xen needs extra options to start, I also adds
dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin=1 to /mnt/EFI/qubes/grub.cfg while the live system is running

Looks like the current ISO has the same issues I found back i October. There might be a new Qubes 4.2 in
https://qubes.notset.fr/iso/

soon:

QubesOS 4.1 Signed Weekly Builds

Still not finished, we are still debugging new 4.2 with dom0 being Fedora 37. We had an unexpected series of issues with installer and other stuff that took us more time than expected. I’ve setup weekly builds for 4.2 already and there exist some ISO uploaded to openqa by @marmarek. Next run is on Thursday so I would announce it.

Edit (2023-02-18): Oh you are teasing me!
http://mirror.notset.fr/qubes/iso/Qubes-4.2.202302181608-x86_64.log

Edit (2023-02-19): Time to do some testing!

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Qubes-4.2.202302191645-x86_64.iso.DIGESTS          19-Feb-2023 17:04                1291
Qubes-4.2.202302191645-x86_64.iso.asc              19-Feb-2023 17:02                 833
Qubes-4.2.202302191645-x86_64.log                  19-Feb-2023 17:06             1348201
Qubes-4.2.202302191645-x86_64.torrent              19-Feb-2023 17:04              119868