r/Qubes•8 yr. ago

Qubes hangs on install; any suggestions?

Hi everyone, was hoping to get qubes installed this weekend, but both r3.2 and r4 rc4 hang when installing the templates. r4 hangs at step (946/1018) that states "Installing qubes-template-fedora-26.noarch". Any recommendations on what do to, to get this working would be appreciated. I have a T440s with the newest bios and have UEFI and legacy boot enabled with secure boot disabled. Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks!

Posted Feb 25, 2018, 3:44 PM UTC

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0x20•8 yr. ago

Run a memtest? Does everything else work? That hardware shouldn't have a problem.

PseudoSecuritay•8 yr. ago

In the Lenovo boot options you might see a Diagnostic section where you can do HDD and RAM tests. If its not there look around in the BIOS or get an image of bootable memtest.

thornton67•8 yr. ago

I am doing a clean install of Qubes 4.0 on a Dell XPS 13 9343 and not succeeding.

I have tried two installation methods with the first being legacy which does successfully install without hanging at all. The second installation method being UEFI hangs on either "Installing qubes-template-fedora-26.noarch (947/1018)" or "Installing qubes-template-debian-9.noarch (948/1018)". The information found here was not useful and didn't help for a solution at all. Memtest showed no issues. I still have keyboard light control, but mouse and keyboard keys are not responsive at all. Only a hard shutdown is possible. When Qubes 4.0 is successfully installed in legacy mood, the machine reboots after successfully entering the decryption key leaving me with an unusable system. I have tried a multitude of various fixes and troubleshooting procedures found around without success.

Why does Qubes 4.0 legacy install succeed but fail to boot after decryption key entered?

Why does Qubes 4.0 UEFI install fail to succeed and hangs?

Anyone able to through in some advice?