The installation cannot continue qubes 4.1

[Lep]

X230 with heads boot and OSX qubes 4.0 already installed.

upgrade to 4.1 failing.

I chose “test this media and install qubes 4.1 isolinux…”

It completes the test.

But then gets stuck as shown in images below:

I end up in the anaconda shell.
So should i do anything specific?
I have installed qubes 4.0 before and it always worked whats different with 4.1?
(I never saw the anaconda installer before, but i read its supposedly okay).

Do i need to be connected to the internet?

Now it’s a black screen I pressed tab but nothing.

[HPOA909]

What year is your machine?

[Lep]

I am not sure how to tell that?
I am running core i7 vpro
With qubes 4.0 already installed.
It’s a regular thinkpad.

[HPOA909]

I think it will be some sort of IMOU problem for the machine does not want to run, or you disabled the Virtualization feature in the BIOS.

[Lep]

How do i turn off secure boot in heads boot? I am not on windows i am on a heads boot menu and so far i don’t see anything about a secure boot.

Also
Okay so looking into the errors, i saw it noted

“Not asking for VNC because we don’t have a network.”

Does that mean anything?

I found a topic on this shown in link below:

UEFI troubleshooting

But I dont know what parameters to add to the kernel that it mentions above.

[HPOA909]

There is no actual tutorial on any similar thinkpad to yours, but I think you need to go to BIOS by keep on pressing F1 key on the built-in physical keyboard.

SECURE tab → SECURE BOOT: OFF → press F10 to save and restart.

[Lep]

Oh so the bios is separate from the heads boot menu?

F1 didn’t bring anything.

Btw:
Do i need to be connected to the internet?

I am trying qubes install with graphical isolinux… lets see what that does.

[tzwcfq]

I guess you need to update heads:

Nitropad X230 USB Installation Error

Welcome to the community @violetcroc11! There is qubes-issue #6792 fixed on Aug 1st, which solves heads #789. This means you will have to use RC2 to install R4.1. However, if you do a fresh install of R4.1 it will use cryptsetup2 which is not supported by the coreboot version that is build into your heads version. So you will need to wait until pull request #1015 was merged into heads. Then build it and flash it on your NitroPad. See also this thread with the answer from Thierry Laurion contai…

[Lep]

Okay i updated the heads firmware.

Currently running 4.0
Heads boot is at the latest version 1.4

Installing qubes 4.1.1 stops with the error shown in the image below.

Warning: /dev/root does not exist.

It says a log file is made but i cant mount a usb to copy it out. Ill check if it is saved in recovery shell.
I am also going to try to install qubes 4.1 instead of 4.1.1 to see.

Edit: trying to install qubes 4.1 failed as well. Same dev/root error.

Should i wipe my drive and all partions before trying to install?

[tzwcfq]

@Lep

It says a log file is made but i cant mount a usb to copy it out.

You can copy it to /boot partition after mounting it.

@Lep

Should i wipe my drive and all partions before trying to install?

I think it’s better to first check the errors in rdsosreport.txt and look for them on this forum or in qubes and heads github issues.