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Installing Qubes OS 3.2 on a HP Zbook Studio G3

I recently got a demo unit of an HP Zbook Studio G3 to play with.  It is a tricked out one with a 4k display and a NVMe drive.  I wanted to try out Qubes OS on it, but the installer would lock up when I tried to boot it. Getting Qubes to install and boot The rough steps for getting a HP Zbook Studio G3 to install Qubes OS 3.2 are: Get a copy of the Qubes OS 3.2 ISO Write the ISO to a USB Drive Mount the EFI boot partition of the USB drive Windows will automatically mount it if you plug in the USB drive – a Mac won’t recognize it at all Modify the EFI/BOOT/xen.cfg file so that all of the kernel lines contain acpi_osi=! acpi_osi=”Windows 2009″ I found this useful tip on the ArchWiki Disable Secure Boot… Read More »Installing Qubes OS 3.2 on a HP Zbook Studio G3