Qubes on Ryzen 7 pro 6850U elitebook 845 g9

This sounds sadly like something I’ve on my Lenovo T14 with an AMD Gen 3 (w. a AMD Ryzen™ 5 PRO 6650U Processor(Ryzen™ 5 PRO 6650U)) … but maybe HP doesn’t have the BIOS challenges I see with Lenovo.

The quick test is to add the XEN options when you boot the installer - so when it says “Install Qubes OS R4.1…”, hit e to edit the arguments for GRUB, locate the line that looks like

multiboot2 /images/pxeboot/xen.gz console=none

and add dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin=1, so it becomes:

multiboot2 /images/pxeboot/xen.gz console=none dom0_max_vcpus=1 dom0_vcpus_pin=1

and press F10 (or Ctrl-x) and see if it will boot to the installer. If you have the “Qubes OS R4.1.2-rc1”, you can pick the “Install Qubes OS R4.1.2-rcX using 6.1.ZZ” … to get a newer kernel (with better support for the Ryzen).

Note: If the installer works, you’ll have to add it again when the machine boots from the NVMe … the changes are not permanent, but works fine to test. :slight_smile:

Can/will you test and report back?

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