Qubes won't boot on NVMe hard drives

[thomwiggers]

The GRUB shipped by Fedora 20 is too old and doesn't support NVMe PCIe ssds.

This was at least the case on 3.1-rc2, I forgot to report this.

(I was able to get GRUB working by bringing in an rpm from the fedora 23 libs but other stuff prevented booting)

[marmarek]

What is that other stuff?

[marmarek]

What is that other stuff?

[thomwiggers]

Boot just hung after entering my password. I also had issues with i915, Skylake graphics generally suck before kernel 4.3, and there were some other things. The installer also crashed into non-graphic mode half the time.

Unfortunately I was unable to get logs as after fixing the issues it was late at night and I needed my laptop in the morning... So I had to scramble to get Arch back up and running.

I was already using the 4.1.something kernel.

Is it btw possible to build Qubes based on a newer version on Fedora using qubes-builder?

[thomwiggers]

Boot just hung after entering my password. I also had issues with i915, Skylake graphics generally suck before kernel 4.3, and there were some other things. The installer also crashed into non-graphic mode half the time.

Unfortunately I was unable to get logs as after fixing the issues it was late at night and I needed my laptop in the morning... So I had to scramble to get Arch back up and running.

I was already using the 4.1.something kernel.

Is it btw possible to build Qubes based on a newer version on Fedora using qubes-builder?

[jacobrichard]

I'm also interested in this -- I'm on a skylake thinkpad, and I'm reading through various docs and makefiles to try to work out if i can build a kernel package for dom0 based on the latest stable kernel from kernel.org (4.5.3 as of this posting).

Alternatively, building from something like fc24 would yield a 4.5 family kernel as well.

[jacobrichard]

I'm also interested in this -- I'm on a skylake thinkpad, and I'm reading through various docs and makefiles to try to work out if i can build a kernel package for dom0 based on the latest stable kernel from kernel.org (4.5.3 as of this posting).

Alternatively, building from something like fc24 would yield a 4.5 family kernel as well.

[andrewdavidwong]

Take a look at this thread for using a 4.4.8+ kernel:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/-xXKdAkIjxU/discussion

Closing this in favor of #1807.

[andrewdavidwong]

Take a look at this thread for using a 4.4.8+ kernel:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/qubes-users/-xXKdAkIjxU/discussion

Closing this in favor of #1807.