HAOS not booting on old Laptop (ASUS P52F)

[glockmane (Stefan)]

Symptoms:

Black screen with white underscore blinking

What I did:

• flash “haos_generic-x86-64-8.0.img.xz” to HDD with Balena Etcher → success
• set bootmode to UEFI (cannot configure Secure Boot, as there is no option in BIOS)

Other notes:

• can install and run Debian 11.3 without a problem
• already installed Docker and Home Assistant on Debian but don’t know how to restore the backup *.tar on the Debian install, coming from a Raspberry Pi 3B which has a boot loop and I don’t know how to fix, that’s why I want to migrate to this laptop…
• maybe I have to unpack the img.xz and flash the img?

Thanks for help

[francisp (Francis)]

HA Container (docker) does not offer the option to restore from a backup. Only HA OS and HA Supervised do. Maybe you can try this:

Installing Home Assistant Supervised using Debian 12

Installing Home Assistant Supervised using Debian 12 Before proceeding, please read the following information It is being made increasing difficult to run a Supervised installation, by choosing to do so you understand the guidelines linked in the next paragraph. If you are new to Home Assistant and/or Linux, then this installation type is most likely not for you and you should choose to run Home Assistant OS on your machine. A PR has now been merged into the…

[glockmane (Stefan)]

I got it to work with Debian, but why does HAOS not boot on my machine? Do I have to unpack the img.xz before flashing?

[francisp (Francis)]

It makes no difference if you unpack or not. Etcher unpacks while flashing, so it should be something else.

[glockmane (Stefan)]

Okay, so it simply cannot boot on my device…

But I’m asking me the following questions…

1. Why can GrubFM (got it on a USB Stick) boot the installed HAOS?
2. Why can Debian boot on this device and HAOS not?