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Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

John Graves, 2.7.2025, HP Bios errors after installing Q4OS inside WIN 11 on HP Laptop 15-fd0083wm; product #7L2C7UA#ABA; a 64 bit machine. SN: 1H84018my, 16gb Ram, 128 gb SSD

OS Boot Manager (UEFI) – Windows Boot Manager (SCSI Disk Device)

First bios error message:
Failed to open \EFI\DebianBoot\---Invalid Parameter
Failed to load image ----Invalid parameter,
start_image() returned Invalid Parameter, falling back to default loader
Loading Q4OS Aquarius operating system …
Loading initial ramdisk…
Initializing system…

Second bios error message:
Boot chainload, phase 1 …
umount: can’t umount /host1: Invalid argument
Host filesystem not found. Make Windows partition accessible.
Press [Enter] to reboot …

Reboots into WIN 11.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

We would need to get a debug information to be able to investigate the issue. Please attach the following logfile:

c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log

What partition or disk drive letter do you attempt to install Q4OS to ?

win82

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Are you referring to a Linux or DOS logfile? I have not been able to get into Linux yet. Also, I am not specifying a partition using your Windows install, but the main disk is, of course, C:  Your install seems to have gone OK and is located in a folder called LInux64 in C:, and inside that there is a folder called Debian12_S001. The BIOS boot menu now shows two boot devices: Windows Boot Manager UEFI and Q4OS Aquarius UEFI, also on the Win Boot Manager. However, when the pc is turned on it goes directly to the WIN 11 boot without giving the option to boot into Q4OS. If I go back into the BIOS and select the Q4OS boot option the pc just boots back into WIN 11 without ever mentioning Q4OS.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Are you referring to a Linux or DOS logfile?

Windows logfile.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

PS C:\Users\John> \appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log
\appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log : The term '\appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log' is not recognized as the
name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was
included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ \appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (\appdata\local\temp\wubi-5.x-rev344.log:String) [], CommandNotFoundExce
   ption
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

I have had very good luck installing Q4OS from inside Windows on two other computers running WIN 10.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Run the "cmd" application and type:

dir "c:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*"

and post the output.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

C:\Users\John>AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*
'AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Well, that looks like some Windows inconsistency, so try this one:

dir "c:\Users\your_user_name"

and post the output

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

C:\Users\John>AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*
'AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

If C:\Users\John> is the prompt and if AppData\Local\Temp\wubi* is what you typed, then you forgot the dir command in front of it.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

PS C:\Users\John> dir "c:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Temp\wubi*"

    Directory: C:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Temp

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----          2/7/2025   3:53 AM          29974 wubi-5.x-rev346.log

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

So the file "c:\Users\John\AppData\Local\Temp\wubi\wubi-5.x-rev346.log" actually exists. We need you to attach this file so we can check it.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

I'm not sure how to do that. I'll have to think about that overnight.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Click on "Post reply". Just under the text box there is a button to select the file to attach.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

@win82
You can also ship the file via e-mail support@q4os.org

win82

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Here is the file wubi-5.x-rev346.log

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wubi-5.x-rev346.log, Size: 29.27 KiB, Downloads: 52

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

The logfile and messages indicate boot process is not able to mount ntfs filesystem. It could be caused by some encryption or missing kernel module for your hardware. Do you use Bitlocker or some another encryption on the disk ?

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

No, I don't think so. This is a "new" refurbished PC from Amazon. It is quite possible that something is missing from this WIN 11 installation.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

We would rather guess Q4OS installer misses kernel module for your hardware, Win11 installation should be fine.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Will q4os installer be fixed any time soon?

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

Yes, it may be fixed with the next release, however it could take a few months.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

You could also contribute to fix it, as you like it  Boot Q4OS-5 Plasma live media, run in terminal:
$ lsmod
and post the output here.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

One more question, does your computer use ReFS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo … s-overview filesystem on drive C ? Or is it using the default NTFS ?

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

I'm afraid I don't fully understand your last 2 comments and I am running out of patience for trying to install q4os on WIN 11.  I am going to try one other thing: I will uninstall q4os and download and install it again. Perhaps there was some kind of corruption that took place in the first download, but I doubt it.  That did not work so I will have to return this  WIN 11 pc to Amazon and order one with WIN 10 on it. I know that q4pc loads inside WIN 10 because I have already successfully loaded it in 2 of my personal win 10 pcs. However, the q4os website should stop saying that q4os can be installed as a .exe file from within win 11.

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Re: Q4OS not booting after installing within WIN 11

I thought that because I was able to install q4os successfully from inside Windows on two HP desktop computers that I would have the same success on Win 10 laptops. Surprise. Not so. I attempted to install q4os from inside Windows 10 on a fairly recent Dell laptop and got the same problem that started this post: q4os would not boot after installation. Same error messages as before. Perhaps I could help you with your last 2 questions, but I may need some help understanding them. What is live media q4os? and how does it work? Also, how do I determine what file system Windows is using in any pc?