HA native install on HP laptop stalls

Installation
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Hello people, I’m a software engineer and I’m new to HA. I wanted to get started with an old laptop that I don’t use any more (HP 7th generation Intel core i5, 32 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, NVMe). Maybe it’s important to say the laptop does have built-in WiFi but does not have a built-in ethernet port, I use a RealTek compatible USB-C device for that.
For installation I used the method with a bootable Ubuntu memory stick and downloaded the current HA version 17.1 in Ubuntu via the Realtek network interface. Install via de Disks Linux tool and after reboot I see it booting the linux-fashion console but it gets stuck after detecting all USB devices (including the realtek interface).

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The interface does not change after the last line but I did not leave it on for more than 30 minutes.
There is no key combination or command that I can type that gives any response and the website http://homeassistant.local:8123 is unavailable. My router overview screen does not list any recognizable new IP address either so any help is welcome.

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Googling some more I found some clues looking for “HA Waiting for root device” more people have this problem in combiunation with NVMe disks. So I dicided to put the HA image on my 32GB pen drive, inserted it and I was about to reboot my PC as all of a sudden HA started to boot and initialize to a working software (could access it via the well known web-link) from my pen drive. So I will re-install HA to an external USB HDD of 160 GB to use that instead of the built-in NVMe

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Sounds like you need to make sure the NVME is in the available boot path for the device and that the msata slot is NVME compatible, not just SATA compatible. This is a hardware BIOS setting under boot device or similar.

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Thanks for the reply. I checked and tried every feasible BIOS setting (including boot from NVMe first) but got no better result than the screen photo. I’ll use the external USD HDD instead, no worries.