And they told us which one they used:
or as I summarised:
With Balena Etcher from a bootable live USB, as above.
I’m not familiar with eMMC SSD, is there something special about writing an image to it?
I have one (Zotac) micro PC that has an eMMC boot disk. I could never get anything to flash to it. It also has an internal 2.5" SATA SSD where I flashed Ubuntu and changed the BIOS to boot from the SATA SSD. In my experience, if you can flash and run Ubuntu, HAOS works as well.
Hello guys!
Thanks a lot for your reply.
Indeed, I’m following the official guide, with the Bootable “live” ubuntu option.
Strangely, I tried a 3rd time, and it got stuck at 31% again. However, I let the computer work for 1hours, unplugged the computer, replugged it, unplugged the usb, and it booted on HA. It seems that while visually everything was frozen, it actually was working in the background.
I am now on HA and most of the things seems to work. Most… Because I can’t install hacs for some reasons. Ssh returns error “unable to resolve host address : get.hacs.xyz”.
Seems like it will be a long night…
Hi!
I have the exact same behaviour, and I’m not sure if everything will work.
Any solution to the incomplete flashing?
Thanks,
Damianos
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Hi !
I dont know whether it IS incomplete or its reach completion but we just cannot see it.
Anyway, I have access to home asssistant, but experiencing some issue that might be related (or not) to this.
Cheers
I just read your other topic: Need help - many issues, probably related to each other
All of your issues are DNS issues. Go to Settings → System → Network and update your DNS server there. Use 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 as your DNS server.
So it looks like your install did complete successfully.
Hi Tom,
Actually, I already tried 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1 or even 8.8.8.4, but all issues remains …
I strongly believe this is a DNS issue indeed, but have no idea how to resolve it.
Any other suggestion?
I had the same issue and finally gave up the Ubuntu live install path. I removed the ssd, installed it in an USB Adapter and flashed it on my Windows PC without any Problem.
Thanks for your input
And yes, I guess that might be the route I will end up taking …
I’m confused (normal). You said that you downloaded the binary and flashed the SSD using Balena. And I asked, and got chastised for asking, how did you flash the SSD? As I understand the ThinClient, the boot device is an eMMC soldered to the board, so how did you flash it?
I flashed it from Ubuntu running on a live usb plugged and booted to the thinclient
So, to be clear, from Balena you got an option to select the target drive, and you were able to select the eMMC SSD on the HP?
Yes indeed!
And, every time you do this, it gets stuck at 31%?
At this point I would install Ubuntu Desktop to the eMMC SSD. Use the parted utility to make sure you don’t have any partitions locked by HP which could potentially reduce the accessible size of the SSD. Then, flash HAOS again.
I have exactly the same problem. I installed live Lubuntu on SD card and booted it on former Chrome-box by HP (before that I had taken care of getting rid of Chrome OS, SecureBoot, etc. on this box, formatted box’s SDD with FAT32). Then I installed Balena etcher on this live Lubuntu, downloaded HAOS image and tried (few times) to flash SSD of the box with HAOS. It gets stuck at exactly 31%.
Before I tried (as a test) to do a similar thing but with live Lubuntu booted from USB and I tried to flash SD card. It also got stuck at 31%.
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The problem is that this guide Generic x86-64 - Home Assistant
does not seem to work for every x86 System. As I mentioned before, for me it did not work and I was Stuck at 31% too. I tried to install it on an old Lenovo Flex 14 Notebook with a Sata SSD.
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Can you install Ubuntu ON the former Chromebox?
What is the full model number. I am seeing them on eBay for $30 and I might buy one.
I think we are discussing two different topics here. One is the awkward behavior when flashing the SSD, the other is the network or DNS issues. I’m not sure if both are interrelated.
Let’s assume the flashing may appear strange but works in the end. What definitely doesn’t work is the connection to HA cloud or HACS. I’ve observed that the connection to the internet works but apparently, DNS doesn’t:
(if you ping www.bbc.co.uk you it resolves to 151.101.0.81)
I assume that’s why I can’t reach download HACS or can’t connect to HA Cloud:
What I’ve done so far:
• I triple checked if ipv6 is disabled on my router (FritzBox): yes, it is disabled (or not activated)
• I set DNS server on my router to 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1:
• I’ve set ipv4 address to “static”, set DNS to 8.8.8.8, and disabled ipv6 address:
• Home Assistant Cloud returns an “unexpected error”:
• The only thing reported in the logs is not being able to connect to weatherapi (probably due to the same reason):
Maybe it’s also worth mentioning that my previous HA instance (running on a VirtualBox on Windows) ran without any problem. When migrated to the Mini PC (with the strange flashing behavior) the network problems occured.
I would appreciate any possible support.
Thanks,
Damos
I suppose - yes. I haven’t tried to install Ubuntu on my (Chrome)box, but:
- I run lightweight live distro (Lubuntu) on it
- before installing HAOS I successfully installed Raspberry OS (Debian-based) on it.
So, I think it should work.