Qubes OS doesn't boot at all (Dell XPS 8940)

[Maxny]

Hello,

I come from Zorin OS (Ubuntu,Linux) and wanted to install Qubes OS for a week now but despite searching everywhere for an answer that works i decided to finally post here in hope of someone helping me for my case.

My PC specs :
CPU:

RAM: 16GB
Graphics card: GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A (I don’t know if that really matters in this case)
PC model: Dell XPS 8940
BIOS (UEFI only): 2.4.0 (latest)

My problem:
I flashed Qubes 4.1.0 with multiple etchers, used dd command on a 32GB USB key, I go into my UEFI and only get the following: (sorry for the low quality of the picture)

I then tried every single option but no matter what I am welcomed by a black screen that lasts forever (i waited over 20 mins).
I have no idea what to do, I tried everything i found online, and each time i did something and it didn’t work I kept on wiping the USB disk and flashing Qubes 4.1.0
Tell me if this is a dupe, I’ve searched around myself but wasn’t able to fix my issue even tho there’s tons of similar ones to mine.
Hope someone can help me, in the meantime, have a good day and take care in those hard times.

[enmus]

I don’t want to discourage you, but you might want to read this

Anyone running Qubes on a Rocket Lake chipset?

Is there a mobile rocket lake? It shouldn’t be about code name, but about specific chipset from the 500 Series. In addition to the motherboard chipset support, both CPU and system firmware (BIOS or UEFI) (you want to check this with OEM for a specific model), need to fully support the IOMMU I/O virtualization functionality for it to be usable. But, the chipset support for VT-d technology is not very clear to me at the moment. While for the chipset 400 series, this info still can be found, fo…

[Maxny]

I am using an “Intel Corporation Comet Lake series” (seen using lspci command) and on the Intel website I searched for my " Intel® Core™ i7-11700 Processor" and found the following:

Does that mean I can still use OMMU I/O virtualization functionality as you said on the previous thread?

Edit: after looking at my UEFI I checked and had this already ticked.

[fsflover]

@Maxny

PC model: Dell XPS 8940

There is a very similar model in the HCL: Hardware compatibility list (HCL) | Qubes OS. You could probably try to ask the author of the report and check if the report has some helpful details.

[deeplow]

Also, maybe check

Installation troubleshooting

[Maxny]

Sadly that person is using a desktop with legacy boot available, which is no longer supported in newer version, I just cannot access it nor is it even available anymore on newer desktop.

@deeplow

Also, maybe check

I have, Ive done all the troubleshooting possible that I found. Sadly nothing seems to work.

[Maxny]

After countless tries over the course of 3 weeks I found a way to finally boot Qubes on my machine.

I used the version 4.1 build 20220305-kernel-latest
(I will try to find the link i used to the list of all the iso i found, it was from qubes themselves but i cant find it anymore, anyway ill keep looking for people who had the same issue i did)

[enmus]

Great! Don’t give up, It’ll be rewarding more than you can imagine, I can tell now seeing how persistent you are!

[Maxny]

https://qubes.notset.fr/iso/
Here’s the link for anyone having trouble installing any kind of version of Qubes on a brand new machine.