latest .iso is broken

[osbyrne]

trying to run the latest umbrel OS .iso from boxes doesn't work (screenshot above)
and trying to install on a spare laptop also fails

what do?

[a4004]

Hey @osbyrne 👋

It looks like GNOME Boxes is booting in Legacy BIOS mode which is the older firmware type that umbrelOS does not support.

I would recommend using another hypervisor such as Oracle VM VirtualBox or QEMU/KVM with Libvirtd on Linux to boot umbrelOS.

However, you may be able to change the boot mode on GNOME Boxes by doing the following:

• Go to Box preferences → Resources → Configuration
• Look for the line that says something like: <os> and change it to: <os firmware="efi">
• Try booting again

Hope that helps! 😄

[osbyrne]

thanks!

running Boxes as Flatpak on ChromeOS, I weirdly can't edit configuration (clicking on the button simply does not open any config editor)

I was trying Boxes after failing to boot umbrelOS on a Dell Latitude E5540 laptop, which is maybe old enough. I'll see if I can change its Bios to run UmbrelOS

[zerpex]

Hey,

Got a similar issue with Proxmox:

I tried a lot of settings. Here are the latest ones:

And the options of the VM:

Checked the iso, it seems correct. The VM just don't boot !
Any thoughts ?

Thanks,
z.

[osbyrne]

I tried with UEFI

still no boot

[a4004]

Hey @zerpex,

I've managed to get umbrelOS successfully installed on my test instance of Proxmox as you can see here:

With pretty much the same configuration - however, I did not specify an EFI disk and used i440fx instead of q35 which seems to work.

Could you try removing the EFI disk and see if that helps?

[a4004]

I tried with UEFI still no boot

Could you try re-creating the USB drive again using Etcher or Rufus if you're on Windows and try booting again? Could you also show what happens after you choose the USB drive, any error messages or just a blank screen + reset of the machine?

[zerpex]

Hey @zerpex,

I've managed to get umbrelOS successfully installed on my test instance of Proxmox as you can see here:

With pretty much the same configuration - however, I did not specify an EFI disk and used i440fx instead of q35 which seems to work.

Could you try removing the EFI disk and see if that helps?

Confirmed to works with this config.
The only thing I did not test was to remove the EFI disk... Which is asked by Proxmox when setting the bios to UEFI !

Anyway, it works !
Thanks a lot.

[a4004]

No worries, glad to hear it works! 🎉

Interestingly, on my version of Proxmox you can untick the "Add EFI Disk" option and create a VM without one:

😄

[osbyrne]

Rufus fails to write the .iso to USB

I'll try to meddle more with the boot settings

[lhuanluz]

I'm having the same error on Rufus, and balena won't even make the thumb drive bootable

[a4004]

Rufus fails to write the .iso to USB

I'll try to meddle more with the boot settings

Try using DD image mode instead of ISO image mode.

[osbyrne]

I found success with Balena Etcher.
I could also boot umbrelOS after disabling secure boot.

Maybe I do a PR to the docs to add "make sure you're booting in EFI or UEFI mode, and secure boot is off" ? at your service @a4004 , thanks for your help

[a4004]

No worries @osbyrne, glad you have the issue resolved! 😎

And yes, feel free to make any contributions in a PR to the Umbrel project! ☂️

[osbyrne]

No worries @osbyrne, glad you have the issue resolved! 😎

And yes, feel free to make any contributions in a PR to the Umbrel project! ☂️

Since the info is in a wiki tab, it's not available for PR's :(

[marleixo]

Hey,

Got a similar issue with Proxmox:

I tried a lot of settings. Here are the latest ones:

And the options of the VM:

Checked the iso, it seems correct. The VM just don't boot ! Any thoughts ?

Thanks, z.

It seems the issue with ProxMox is the "pre-Enroll keys", untick and it works.
you cannot remove the EFI storage, it must store it somewhere, if you create the VM and remove it later it loads the VM using a "temp" storage, that's why without it works, that is, there are no "Pre-Enrolled keys".

[marleixo]

Hey,

Got a similar issue with Proxmox:

I tried a lot of settings. Here are the latest ones:

And the options of the VM:

Checked the iso, it seems correct. The VM just don't boot ! Any thoughts ?

Thanks, z.

It seems the issue with ProxMox is the "pre-Enroll keys", untick and it works.
you cannot remove the EFI storage, it must store it somewhere, if you create the VM and remove it later it loads the VM using a "temp" storage, that's why without it works, that is, there are no "Pre-Enrolled keys".

[DavidEGx]

I would recommend using another hypervisor such as Oracle VM VirtualBox or QEMU/KVM with Libvirtd on Linux to boot umbrelOS.

Litvirtd didn't work by default for me.

I had to:

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install ovmf
$ sudo virsh edit UmbrelOS

Then add:

    <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader>
    <nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/UmbrelOS_VARS.fd</nvram>

right after:

    <type arch='x86_64' machine='q35'>hvm</type>

After that, it worked just fine.