Thanks ! With the help of Awokd I managed to boot each version by using "xen-pciback.hide=(PCI address of the discrete GPU)" and the small grub fix for 3.2. I was planning on using 4rc3 but the VM setup on first boot always fails to create sys-net because of a libxenlight error. I can still start my session but no internet access, same error each time I try to start sys-net and no VM manager to be found. So I decided to use 3.2 and it works like a charm, just needs some more ram and all will be perfect :) --- Emil Novik -------- Original Message -------- On Dec 30, 2017, 21:44, Ivan Ivanov wrote:

Hi Emil, thank you very much for your report. Regarding Qubes 3.2 : at the Qubes HCL list I wrote:

"after Qubes R3.2 installation it cant boot - cant reach GRUB Boot Menu because MBR (or GRUB) is corrupted. Use grub2-install to fix it (read more) Everything else is OK "

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/TS1zfKZ7q8w/JQFkVF4xBgAJ

If you fix your GRUB as described ^^^ you may be able to finally boot Qubes 3.2 Please test it and let me know the results

Live 3.1 was buggy, full 3.1 would have worked. Haven't tested 4.0 - can't speak about it

Best regards, Ivan

2017-12-28 1:19 GMT+03:00 Emil Novik via coreboot :

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Hey, I'm having some heavy trouble getting my laptop to run Qubes and I first thought I was having issues with the OS. But after digging into the logs I managed to get(crashes too early during boot to get any persistent logs, had to write most by hand) it feels more like an issue with my Coreboot built.

So there are the details : - G505s with integrated HD 8650G + discrete R5 M230 graphics. - Coreboot 4.6-2477-g6ab3edac3c-dirty with processor microcode patch (change-ID: Ibbfee47ce1d5081640d6924e2b12f5213a7fcadb). - Runs Debian Stretch fine. - Fails to start Qubes 3.2 / 4.0 rc3 / Live 3.1. - I added the vgabios.rom for the integrated card with menuconfig and the one for the discrete card with cbfstool. - Coreboot.rom, .config and full make output as attachment.

Some more error data I gathered from coreinfo's Bootlog :

Failed to enable LTR for dev = PCI: 01:00.0 Failed to enable LTR for dev = PCI: 02:00.0 ... I2C: 01:50 missing read_resources I2C: 01:51 missing read_resources PNP: 00ff.1 missing read_resources ... Warning: Can't write PCI_INTR 0xC00/0xC01 registers because 'mainboard_picr_data' or 'mainboard_intr_data' tables are NULL Warning: Can't write PCI IRQ assignments because 'mainboard_pirq_data' structure does not exist ... ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/Common/CommonReturns.c', line 187 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/vendorcode/amd/agesa/f15tn/Proc/CPU/cpuGeneralServices.c', line 776 ... Manufacturer: ef SF: Detected W25Q32 with sector size 0x1000, total 0x400000 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 Manufacturer: ef SF: Detected W25Q32 with sector size 0x1000, total 0x400000 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/spi/spi_flash.c', line 425 ASSERTION ERROR: file 'src/drivers/amd/agesa/state_machine.c', line 309 ... EEPROM not found EEPROM not found EEPROM not found EEPROM not found EEPROM not found EEPROM not found EEPROM not found ... I2C: 01:50 (unknown) I2C: 01:51 (unknown) ... APIC: 11 (unknown) APIC: 12 (unknown) APIC: 13 (unknown) PCI: 01:00.0 (unknown) PCI: 02:00.0 (unknown) PNP: 00ff.0 (unknown)

"..." are parts I didn't write down as they didn't show any obvious errors(but I'm bad at seeing them) and it would take me a loooong time to write down the full log as I can't export it as far as I know, if you need any more information from it, I can write down any part missing.

Output of "cbfstool coreboot.rom print" after I added the optionrom for the R5 M230 discrete graphic card : Name Offset Type Size Comp cbfs master header 0x0 cbfs header 32 none fallback/ramstage 0x80 stage 129247 none config 0x1f9c0 raw 263 none revision 0x1fb00 raw 582 none payload_revision 0x1fd80 raw 239 none apu/amdfw 0x1fec0 raw 131072 none fallback/romstage 0x3ff00 stage 320556 none cmos_layout.bin 0x8e3c0 cmos_layout 1164 none pci1002,990b.rom 0x8e8c0 optionrom 61952 none fallback/postcar 0x9db40 stage 13268 none fallback/dsdt.aml 0xa0f80 raw 9435 none img/coreinfo 0xa34c0 payload 102712 none img/nvramcui 0xbc640 payload 141628 none fallback/payload 0xdefc0 payload 67370 none payload_config 0xef740 raw 1611 none pci1002,6665.rom 0xefe00 optionrom 32768 none (empty) 0xf7e80 null 3112984 none s3nv 0x3efec0 raw 32768 none (empty) 0x3f7f00 null 31192 none bootblock 0x3ff900 bootblock 1424 none

What happened when I tried to boot each version of Qubes :

Live 3.1 : mce: Unable to init device /dev/mcelog (rc: -16) radeon 000:04:00:0: Invalid ROM contents radeon 000:04:00:0: Invalid ROM contents [drm:radeon_get_bios] *ERROR* Unable to locate a BIOS ROM radeon 000:04:00:0: Fatal error during GPU init [TTM] Memory type 3 has not been initialized SQUASHFS error: squashfs_read_data failed to read block 0x5cb75d68 SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [0x5cb75d68] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 0x5cb75d68, size af0 SQUASHFS error: Unable to read data cache entry [0x5cb75d68] SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 0x5cb75d68, size af0 EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_find_entry:1289: inode #41642: comm plymouthd: reading directory lblock 0 (Hangs at the Qubes graphical loading screen, with loading bar full.)

3.2 (Install looked fine) : Hangs at "Booting from Hard Disk..." in SeaBIOS on every try

4.0 rc3 : [ FAILED ] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. ... [ OK ] Reached target Basic System. (Hangs for about 10secs, followed by 5s of black screen) BUG: Unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at (null) (followed by a lot of output likely concerning the error and quickly back to boot) Sadly too much output and disappearing too fast for me to get anything out of it if all I can do is read and type to export it. Tried Ctrl+S/Ctrl+Q to "pause" it but nope, also checked that the laptop should not reboot in case of kernel panic but it still does...

Thanks to anyone that could help me find what's wrong and how to fix it :)

--- Emil Novik

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