QubesOS - Hard Drive Recovery

User Support Hardware Issues
1

Have a hard drive from a motherboard with a bad SPI chip and need to boot into

it. It is installed with QubesOS.

There is a problem with the USB drivers not loading when the login GUI is

reached. Because of this, the password cannot be typed in to login.

Is this due to the Trusted boot? Where are drivers loaded from at boot?

2

Is it USB keyboard?

Can you type the LUKS password to decrypt the disk?

If no, then probably all USB controllers are hidden from Dom0:

  • Reboot and interrupt Grub, by pressing ‘e’.
  • Find the line with module2 vmlinuz.
  • Delete rd.qubes.hide_all_usb
  • press Ctrl-F10 to boot

Can you type anything for “user” login?

If no, probably you have problem with sys-usb:

  • Reboot and interrupt Grub, by pressing ‘e’.
  • Find the line with module2 vmlinuz.
  • At the end of the line, add a space, then qubes.skip_autostart
  • press Ctrl-F10 to boot

Does it let you log in?

Did I forget something?

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