my partition is /dev/sda
the command i ran was
efibootmgr -v -c -u -L “example” -l /EFI/qubes/grubx64.efi -d /dev/sda -p 1
Are you sure that /dev/sda is your Qubes OS drive and not Qubes OS installer USB drive?
Can you post the output of this command?
lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,SIZE /dev/sd? /dev/nvme?n?
After you run this command:
efibootmgr -v -c -u -L “example” -l /EFI/qubes/grubx64.efi -d /dev/sda -p 1
Do you see the new boot entry with the name example in the command output? You can also run efibootmgr without arguments to print all boot entries.
Also, just in case, the -l argument in efibootmgr is lowercase L.
NAME FSTYPE SIZE
sda iso9660 28.7g
sda1 iso9660 5.8g
sda2 vfat 2.3m
nvme0n1p1 931.5g
nvme0n1p1 vfat 600m
nvme0n1p2 ext4 1g
nvme0n1p3 crypto_LUKS 929.9g
Your Qubes OS drive name is /dev/nvme0n1 and not /dev/sda so you need to run this command:
efibootmgr -v -c -u -L “QubesOS” -l /EFI/qubes/grubx64.efi -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1
After you run this command:
efibootmgr -v -c -u -L “QubesOS” -l /EFI/qubes/grubx64.efi -d /dev/nvme0n1 -p 1
Do you see the new boot entry with the name QubesOS in the command output? You can also run efibootmgr without arguments to print all boot entries.
the output is
Bootcurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001
Boot0001* UEFI: USB PciBoot(0x0…etc
Boot0000* QubesOS HD(1,GPT…etc
Ok, seems that Qubes OS boot entry was successfully created.
What happens when you try to boot this QubesOS boot entry from UEFI?
could you please clarify?
the uefi gui seems to only have the option of prioritizing boot drives ie internal ssd, usb, dvd etc.
after enabling legacy mode and doing some research i am still stuck
is my ssd potentially an issue? should i install something like dasharo? or am i missing something obvious?
the motherboard is currently running the latest version of Msi click bios 5
Is the drive you installed to not include there?
In the MSI GUI have you enabled the nvme drive at boot?
the uefi detects the following drives in order of boot priority
[UEFI Hard Disk]
[UEFI CD/DVD]
[UEFI USB Hard Disk]
[UEFI USB CD/DVD]
[UEFI USB Key]
[UEFI USB Floppy]
[UEFI Network]
all are enabled
in other words
no i cannot see the boot entry from the uefi gui
yes all drives are enabled
i can see and enable the drive qubes is installed on but can’t get it to boot even as the no1 boot priority
i can also confirm the usb, the downloaded iso & rufus are not the issue
gl buddy im having very simillar issue. my pc als o after installing qubes cant boot the os
Qubes 4.2.0 rc didn’t fix the boot issues however it did solve the performance issues in the installer
from here i intend to try installing qubes to another ssd and installing dasharo
if anyone has any potential fixes then please let me know
so i tried installing qubes onto a 500gb crucial p3 plus nvme ssd . . . it didn’t work
so… after some troubleshooting with someone i know we managed to get it working
I’m not entirely sure what fixed it but copying the qubes boot file to the efi directory provided a short term solution -(this would have to be repeated after every kernel update) and a while later manually instructing the efi where to boot from in the qubes partition provided a (presumably) permanent solution
sorry i can’t give the steps as it was mostly beyond my technical knowledge … but the short version is
problem solved, xmp being enabled by default probably the issue
I’m using a msi pro z690-a ddr4 wifi with default firmware and a intel i5-13500
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UPDATE:
After managing to boot into the Qubes installation there was no wifi or Ethernet available.
I’ve since switched motherboards to a Gigabyte Aourus elite z790 and added a AMD rx 560 GPU and it had almost no issues.
for specifics see here: