Tried everything but qubes wont boot

[ChrisA]

So to summarize you different posts:

• You have a laptop, where you would like to run Qubes.
• Since you couldn’t get the GUI-installer to run, you did the installation on a USB-stick on a different laptop.
• When you bring that USB-stick back to the laptop (where you would like to run Qubes), it doesn’t boot.

As I recall one of your other posts, the installer was actually able to load/start the kernel on your laptop - but the GUI installer failed. In that case, I think it should be possible to use the bootloader (GRUB) from the installer-stick to load the config for the USB-stick you installed on.

Plug both USB-stick into your laptop and boot from the installer stick. When the bootloader shows the menu, you should be able to follow the first part of this:

Multiboot Qubes with GRUB on a different drive

Did you install Qubes with a boot partition? If so, could you try this: When GRUB loads you normal menu, press ‘c’ and type: configfile (hdX,gptY)/efi/qubes/grub.cfg ? - If you don’t know X and Y, you should be able to press tab and get a list of known partitions – look for “Filesystem type fat”. If this works, I think you can do something like: I’ve not tested it, but looks like you should be able to add something like: menuentry "Give me QUBES" { insmod xfs search --set=root --lab…

It might only bring you back to the point where you started (kernel loaded, OS started but no GUI) - but with a little luck you’ll then have a shell, where you can start looking at what error messages you get.