HA not installed from USB

Installation
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I have a brand new Intel x64 PC with absolutely nothing on it, so I wanted to install HA on it.

I enabled UEFI and disabled secure boot.

I downloaded haos_generic-x86-64-15.2.img.xz

Extracted the *.img, used Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/ to create a bootable USB with the following options (they were all not editable):

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Then plugged the USB in the new PC, started it and it immediately went to the GNU Grub screen (no “Try Ubuntu” option) with options for

  • Slot A (OK=1 TRY=1)
  • Slot B (OK=0 TRY=0)
  • Slot A (rescue shell)
  • Slot B (rescue shell)

Choosing “Slot B” does nothing, I don’t remember the exact message but, basically, it said it couldn’t do anything.

Choosing “Slot A” starts up something HA-related and a bunch of logs and start jobs are being run.
After a while the first picture (seen in preview) from the following link greets me (new user restrictions, sorry):

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I thought “Great, it’s installed!”, turned off the PC, removed the USB and when I started it again it opened the UEFI motherboard boot menu with no bootable items in it. I.e. nothing was installed and there was nothing to start.

Why is that and how can I install HA on the PC’s harddisk?

Starting the PC with the USB in, neither of the two homeassistant.local addresses are reachable and the host IP 192.168.0.3 isn’t pingable by neither my main PC nor by the router, it self (although it obviously registers the machine by DHCP).

Here are pictures of the output of the following commands:
core info, jobs info, os info, host info, info
data screens

That’s all I could think of collecting, let me know if anything else is needed!

2

Looks like you installed ha on the USB stick.

Follow the docs to install correctly.

3

God damn it, every time.
I mistook the directions as “use the img to make the USB bootable”.

But, if I understand “Method 2” correctly, I basically did that. But I don’t understand how I can install HA from the USB I just made into a boot medium?

In other words, is it possible to just install HA on the PC from the USB that I have, somehow?

4

Follow Method 1

5

Method 2 means remove the drive from the PC you want to install HAOS on. Connect that drive to another computer. Then use an imaging tool to install the downloaded HAOS img file to the temporarily connected drive. Remove that drive and put it back into the PC you want to run HAOS on. There is no USB Flash Drive used for this method.

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Ah, many thanks!
This is what confused me - it seemed in the guide they are talking about a whole HDD/SSD install but it could also be interpreted as a USB, especially with the flash instructions, which is what led me to believe it might be possible.

Anyway, thank you all! I will follow Method 1.

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