Qubes installed but not booting

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could you please clarify?
the uefi gui seems to only have the option of prioritizing boot drives ie internal ssd, usb, dvd etc.

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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

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Is the drive you installed to not include there?

In the MSI GUI have you enabled the nvme drive at boot?

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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

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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

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gl buddy im having very simillar issue. my pc als o after installing qubes cant boot the os

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Qubes 4.2.0 rc didn’t fix the boot issues however it did solve the performance issues in the installer

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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

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so i tried installing qubes onto a 500gb crucial p3 plus nvme ssd . . . it didn’t work

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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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thanks for the help everyone

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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: