balenaEtcher flash to SD card fails. Newbee hits a dead end

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Following the installation instructions the final step of copying to the SD card fails. I have tried with two different PCs (Windows) and also two different SD cards. Same error each time. I am using the Raspberry Pi 3 option from the install guide.

I am robotically following the process described on the HS web site so I have no way to progress.

Message “Attention, something went wrong…” doesn’t help

Also, I can’t text-copy from the error report box. Who thought that was a good idea?

I am a newbee to Raspberry Pi so please keep the jargon to a minimum.

Thanks,

Phillip

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Does the message box say anything more than ‘something went wrong’? Can you take a screen shot (in Windows) or take a photograph of your screen with your phone or simply write it down with pencil on paper?

Pardon me for asking, but which would be the ‘HS web site’?

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The install guide…

The message box…

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Too much to type and as I said, can’t be copied.

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Either:

  1. You have a bad image - did you try downloading the image and flashing it locally?
  2. The SD card is dead - did you try a new, known good, SD card?
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As I said in my post, I tried two computers and two SD cards.

I am following a lookie-see-lookie-do guide. I don’t know how to download and flash locally. Who knows what that button in the app dose.

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Meaning, first download the image, and then flash it; do NOT use the web url within balena-etcher

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Can you point me to a Pi 3 image? Also, by “flash” do we mean just copy the file to the SD card or is it more complicated than that to make a bootable SD card with Pi operating system and Home Assistant installed?

Thanks.

They said it was easy, just follow the guide. Does the guide point me to a bad file? As usual, I sit down to do a five minute job and the rest of the day disappears. Doh!

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https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi#write-the-image-to-your-boot-media

Select Raspberry Pi 3

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  1. Download this file to your PC → https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.5/haos_rpi3-64-9.5.img.xz
  2. start Balena etcher, choose flash from file (instead of flash from URL) and use the file downloaded in point 1

The rest is same same

(one of the reasons for having a incomplete image might be poor internet; downloading it first could help with getting a complete image ;))

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That worked a treat.

I am off to continue the set up.

Many thanks.

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That helped me thanks @aceindy. I’d waited more than long enough for a 2.15gb file to download but the flashing failed multiple times. Obviously I didn’t wait long enough!!!

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I run still into the problem that Balena fails. I have tried all suggestions: downloaded the file, disabled Windows defender, run Balena as administrator. I don’t see any error report that suggests what I need to do.

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I tried this steps you gave to the person coming for help and for whatever reason my Micro Mini does not detect it as a bootable device. Hoping for some ideas?

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check bios dor uefi boot mode?

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already checked it and set correctly