SOLVED! Installation 4.2.4 Good, 4.3? Grub. What's the difference, please?

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Now that 4.2.4 is using 97.7% of the partition, and nothing I delete from the var/lib/qubes paths seems to be much help, and I apt remove –purged blender and that did nothing, and 4.2.4 has apparently been euthanised already, I thought I might set aside a few days to install a fresh system, and 4.3.1 is the latest, so I downloaded an .ISO and did the dd business, only to find that on booting the USB drive, it stopped at a grub prompt.

I tried chainloaded (msdos1) /EFT/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI boot as gpt5–nano sort of nudged me in that direction, roughly … and all I got back was “error: no server specified” or something like that. I don’t know how to copy text to anywhere at all for future reference when I am stuck at a grub prompt so excuse my syntax from memory, please.

I tried dd-ing 4.3.0 (which I have never used), and that got the same grub result.

I tried booting the 4.2.4 USB drive I still had laying around and that got me to the Install Summary without any sort of hesitation whatsoever. Wonderful! (except that’s past its UseBy Date now.)

I tried dd-ing the .ISO onto another USB stick, and got the same disaster.

I tried dd-ing the .ISO in a Mint 22.3 terminal because that called the USB drive /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/xvdj1 and that still didn’t work.

I tried using the USB Disk Writer which comes with the ‘Disks’ programme, as suggested in The Documentation and that didn’t work.

I searched here for “installation 4.3.1 grub” and all I got back was someone who managed to write their .ISO using a Fedora programme rather than a Debian alternative. I haven’t bothered with hunting that solution down because I haven’t used Fedora since Redhat 6.1, and 4.2.4 works as it ought to, and 4.3.n doesn’t, so what’s the difference, please?

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Just imagine that could be a solution?

Asking from us to “bother” to help would not be fair then.

Also, what resource doc you followed to install Qubes 4.3.1? Did you try to re-download ISO? What exact command you used to burn USB? You could upload photos when you don’t want to bother writing down when stuck in grub?

What is your exact goal? To comprehend (some?) difference or to install Qubes?

That’s roughly how I can help for now based on info you provided us with.

I was recently upgraded to 4.3.1 too and had issues. This is how I approached to help myself eventually

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Seriously folks, I’ve solved it! Just destroy one of the free-standing VMs which happened to be the one that once had Blender, and Inkspot, and Solvespace and OpenSCAD and OrcaSlicr and Ultimaker Cura, and suddenly the root partition has another 16% again. Thanks for your advice.

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Great! I believed no one could help you in this but yourself. That’s why I encouraged you with my example, because I understood your issue from the very first sentence.

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