Can't get HAOS to boot

[MikeyBE (Mike)]

I’ve been struggling to get HAOS to install for a couple of days now.

I’m trying to install it on a (very) old intel D2550MUD2 ITX system, 1.86GHz dual core Atom CPU, 8GB RAM and a 120Gb SSD. Windows 10 installs and works fine on it, if a little slowly.

However, after copying the disk image to the SSD and rebooting, I get an error:

Booting ‘Slot A (OK=1 TRY=1)’
Error: Cannot Load image
Failed to boot both default and fallback entries.
Press any key to continue…

I’m starting to think this PC is just too old for the job.

[francisp (Francis)]

Does the PC support UEFI?

[aceindy]

Install HA on old laptop without UEFI

I just managed to install HAOS on non-UEFI system. If anyone will be stucked with this here is an overview of what I did: Write image of haos_generic-x86-64-9.4.img.xz with Etcher Boot some linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu) and create 3 partitions at this SSD/HDD: /boot (~ 500MB), bios_grub (~ 1MB) and root (I used 20GB for this) Install some Linux on this partitions (I used Debian) next to HAOS, which will install Grub at disk bootloader area e.g. /dev/sda (it’s possible to install Grub only, not wh…

According that post it is possible but requires some tinkering

[MikeyBE (Mike)]

It’s a bit of an odd BIOS.

Windows 10 happily boots from a GPT partitioned drive, as does Ubuntu from a GPT USB pen, and yes it is UEFI. However, due to its age (I think) it doesn’t support secure boot.

[MikeyBE (Mike)]

OK, I decided to put Ubuntu on the SSD and then install HA Core.

Everything went fine with the Ubuntu install until right at the end when it crashed. The install log complained about not being able to set various UEFI variables. However, once the machine rebooted Ubuntu works fine.

So I’m putting this down to an early/incomplete/buggy UEFI BIOS.

[agners]

@MikeyBE

I’m trying to install it on a (very) old intel D2550MUD2 ITX system, 1.86GHz dual core Atom CPU, 8GB RAM and a 120Gb SSD. Windows 10 installs and works fine on it, if a little slowly.

The issue with D2550 is known, see also this issue: GRUB failing to load kernel on Intel Atom boards (Intel NM10 chipset) · Issue #3305 · home-assistant/operating-system · GitHub. It will be resolved with Home Assistant OS 13.1 (you can download the 13.1.rc1 already today from Release Home Assistant OS 13.1.rc1 · home-assistant/operating-system · GitHub. You’ll be able to upgrade to the stable version safely once it is out.