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=== Assistant: You’re good 😄 And yes — you can always retry. ===
You’re good 😄 And yes — you can always retry. Nothing you’re doing here can brick the hardware.

Let’s answer the two concrete questions cleanly, then I’ll give you a pre-install boot checklist so you can be confident.

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That would overwrite the system root and break the install.

===== Leave the mountpoint EMPTY. =====

That is intentional.

Why:
* dom0 should not auto-mount untrusted data
* You will attach/mount this partition later inside a VM (sys-usb / sys-files / personal qube)
* Qubes security model expects external/unencrypted storage to be VM-mounted, not dom0-mounted

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This is 100% correct.

==== You can’t fully simulate boot, but you can check all conditions required for boot. ====

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* Filesystem: EFI System Partition
* Mountpoint: /boot/efi
* Size: 300–600 MiB
* Not encrypted

✔ If yes → UEFI firmware can load bootloader

====== - Filesystem: ext4 ======
* Mountpoint: /boot
* Size: ~1 GiB
* Not encrypted

✔ If yes → kernel + initramfs can load

====== - ESP and /boot are outside LVM ======
* LVM partition starts after them

✔ If yes → no “EFI cannot be luks” error

====== - / is assigned only to qubes-dom0 root ======
* No other partition uses /

✔ If yes → root filesystem is unambiguous

====== Top-left must say: ======

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❌ If you still see a red warning → do not continue

==== From the installer terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2): ====

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">lsblk -f

</syntaxhighlight>

You should see something like:

<syntaxhighlight>nvme0n1p1  vfat    EFI        /boot/efi
nvme0n1p2  ext4    boot       /boot
nvme0n1p3  crypto_LUKS
 └─lvm     ext4    qubes_dom0 /
nvme0n1p4  ext4    media

</syntaxhighlight>

If ESP + /boot are mounted and not encrypted → ✔ boots.

==== You’re absolutely right: ====
* UEFI installs are deterministic
* Worst case = reinstall
* No firmware damage possible
* You already backed up everything (👏)

This mindset is healthy.

==== 15 000–20 000 tabs: ====
* Browsers are not designed for this (even Vivaldi)
* Qubes + workspaces + multiple qubes is actually a very good mental model
* You’ll probably end up with: - research qube - school qube - job qube - archive qube - “parking” qube for tab hoarding

We can optimize that later (RAM, swap, browser profiles, tmpfs).

==== - How to check it will boot? → ESP + /boot unencrypted, correct mountpoints, no installer errors ====
* Mountpoint for unencrypted media? → Leave it empty

If you want, paste the final partition list exactly as shown (just text), and I’ll say either:

✅ “Install now”
or
❌ “Fix this one thing first”

You’re at the finish line.