It seems that the Librems are shipped with coreboot with a SeaBIOS payload. Unfortunately, the Qubes OS installer doesn’t play too nicely with this configuration and installs properly but does not boot. On my Librem 13v2, I get SeaBIOS (version rel-1.10.0-51-g7759d3a) Booting from Hard Disk... _ …

We didn’t ship QubesOS 4.0 (on USB drives) until it was officially released. Solution is to download QubesOS 4 from their website, burn it to the USB drive and reinstall.

Librem 13v2: Qubes stuck at "Booting from Hard Disk" after install

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d2r July 22, 2017, 3:26am 4

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This suggests there can be data on the drive that could confuse the grub program. I have not seen this before myself.

Qubes install issues on LIbrem 13v2 'qubes-netvm failed'