Stuck and not able to Boot after installation

[Qasker123]

I followed the following guide

Install Qubes OS with boot partition and a detached LUKS header on USB

The purpose of having a detached LUKS header and boot partition on a separate external disk is to achieve a deniable encryption: Deniable encryption - Wikipedia The encrypted disk will look like an unused/empty unpartitioned disk. Boot into Qubes OS installer and on GUI screen switch to shell on another TTY by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2. Assuming: /dev/sda - disk where you want to install Qubes OS /dev/sdb - USB disk where you want to install Qubes OS boot partition Find out the right disk name…

Not because I wanted plausible deniability but because I wanted to keep Qubes Boot loader separate from my laptop on a USB stick so that Windows have no chance of interference.

So I got my /boot/efi and /boot on a USB Disk and I put / on a 256 GB partition on same SSD on my laptop as my windows 11

When it asked me reboot, I did that . I had to go to UEFI and select my USB drive then on the screen where it asks Template configuration etc I chose following 2 things ( recommended so by a video on youtube)

make sysn net disposable
Enable system and template update over Tor anonymity network using whonix

Finally I get an erro dialog box saying
“stderr start failed internal error : unable to reset PCI device 0000:00 If 6 : noFLR PM rest or bus read available see so and so log for details”

When I clocked OK then it gave me a screen with many Green OK line , last was started accounts-daemon.service Account Service.
and then there was a cursor blinking. I thought there is some problem so after waiting for 5 or so minutes I just shutdown the laptop by Pressing prolonged on Start button ( I guess I made a mistake? , should have waited more may be 30 minutes to an hour for Qubes to do its things?)

When I restarted, it asked me for Disk password and then following three errors
all the Failed in red colour
Failed to start qubes-vm@sys-firewall.service and sys-net.service and sys-whonix.service

so I checked on google and added Qubes.skip_autostart when I got the command line by pressing e

NOW LATEST is as follows
Its stuck and saying
Warning : USB in dom0 is not restricted. Consider rd.qubes,hide_all_usb or usbcore.authorized_default=0.

Please help. Thanks in advance

[Qasker123]

Hello, someone please help. I did a reinstall and same issue.
In the template selection, I left everything default other than “make sysn net disposable”
After that installation began and at the end I got dialogue box saying
“[‘usr/bin/qvm-start’,‘sys-firewall’] failed
stderr start failed internal error : unable to reset PCI device 0000:00 1f.6 : no FLR PM rest or bus read available see so and so log for details”
I clicked ok and now it is a screen with bunch of Green [ OK ] written last line being “started accounts-daemon.service Account Service.”
and below it a curson blinking.
What should I do now?

[Qasker123]

Gosh… Everything is new to me and has to be googled.
So I did Alt F3 and got the command line
I am now logged in with my user id and password that I set in the installation process.
What to do now. Please help me getting the Qubes GUI.
I now have command line its saying myuserid@dom0 `1$ and then the cursor.

[otter2]

At the very least you can fix the PCI device error:

PCI troubleshooting

But more reasonably you should read your boot log, and, if it doesn’t contain any culprits on why GUI doesn’t work, read X log as well:

journalctl -b            # Journal of the current boot
less /var/log/Xorg.0.log # Xorg logs

[Qasker123]

Thank you. So I did the no_strict_reset=True for 00_1f.6 and when I do qvm-pci it is showing as such.
Also went through journal… 1000s of lines … Cant figure out what went wrong. Several line were Orange, blue and even red.
I am at the command prompt of dom0 now unsure how to get to GUI
I tried qvm-start sys-gui … It says no such domain

[otter2]

You can search logs with /pattern or grep, see man less and man grep

I don’t know all errors that can prevent GUI from working either. One thing to look for is errors related to lightdm and xorg.

@Qasker123

I tried qvm-start sys-gui … It says no such domain

You shouldn’t, dom0 is guivm by default

[Qasker123]

Wait a minute more googling led me to the following

Qubes OS GUI is not shown after installl

I tried to install Qubes OS 4.2.3 on my ThinkPad laptop. The installation went smoothly and laptop rebooted into the configuration. I kept everything at the default. Then after the configuration I got text screen with system-d messages, but there was no GUI: [IMG_6873] I can see that I can switch to a login console using Ctrl-Alt-f2 and login there to dom0. I tried to restart lightdm.service, systemctl restart lights.service reported a success but there was no attempt to start GUI, no screen…

I think I will try reinstalling using kernel latest and will report back.
Initially I got exact same screen as this post.
However my PCI problem will persist which you helped fixing.
Thanks being with me.
From Windows to Qubes directly… Not so easy but hopefully it will be worth it.
Also I am installing boo and boot/efi on a USB so bit more involved process.
My GPU is Nvidia RTX PRO 1000 Blackwell. Seems like it will give me issues.
I will be back

[Qasker123]

Installed using latest kernel option and GUI is working now. I am inside the Qubes. Wow
I have marked this part " Installation with kernel latest" as solution to this Issue.

However I will continue on this thread for some more inputs from you experienced guys. I went to Dom0 command line and did the PCI attach with no-strict-reset=True for the ethernet

Then started a personal Qube and went to youtube to listen something nice but now the volume is not working…

[otter2]

You mean you can’t set the volume or there is no sound at all? Do you have your audio device attached to the youtube qube?

[Qasker123]

I created another thread for my audio because this thread was about me getting stuck post installation. This is resolved now.
I don’t know what a YouTube qubes is. I start Firefox in a personal qubes and YouTube audio does not work.
I don’t see any device in output devices in Audio mixer.
My laptop is too new I guess. Check my other thread please if you want to help. Thx

No Audio after fresh install using Kernel latest

It did nothing. when I do uname -r I get the following 6.17.9-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 Yesterday I ran update for dom0 I guess it moved me from 6.12.11-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 to 6.17.9-1.qubes.fc37.x86_64 When I try your command it says - nothing to do. When I try with action=upgrade alsa-sof-firmware command it says alsa-sof-firmware-2023.09.1-1.fc37.noarch is already installed. I think I need alsa-sof-firmware-2025.05.1-1.fc42 or fc41 for my audio to work. Any other way to get this without upgr…