I’m stuck. I want to upgrade my Dell Wyse 5070 with a 512GB SATA SSD and I can’t get it to boot fully. I’ve tried installing using Balena Etcher and Ubuntu booted directly from the Dell but neither method works. AI hasn’t been able to help. Been through the BIOS. No matter what I do it goes into rescue mode on boot. I’m thinking it may not be connecting to the network correctly but I’m not sure. When I go back to boot the machine from the internal emmc drive everything works fine. Totally stumped. Anybody ever deal with anything like this?
Hi, check this: Installing HAOS on a dedicated x86-64 PC and Installing HAOS on a dedicated x86-64 PC - #21 by Nick4
You’ve flashed the SSD with Home Assistant using Balena Etcher. You’ve gone into BIOS and made sure UEFI is enabled and Secure Boot is disabled. Depending on the mobo and BIOS, especially on legacy/older hardware, there could be some type of option in the BIOS for the processor that gives you a selection between DOS or UNIX, make sure you have UNIX selected if this is the case. Make sure your boot order has the SSD as the first pick.
EDIT - Also, try a different SATA cable for the SSD. Legacy/older systems can be quirky. Best to rule out possibilities though process of elimination.
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Thanks Nick. I haven’t had any problems getting HAOS installed on the SSD. My issue is that it keeps crashing when booting from the SSD, even though I can boot HA from the internal drive just fine. It tries to boot from the SSD, but crashes over and over until it goes into rescue mode.
Thanks Matt. I’ve been using the Dell for about a year running HAOS off the internal emmc drive. The computer runs HA great, so I’m sure the bios is set correctly, otherwise HA wouldn’t run from the built-in drive. Even so, I’ve gone through the BIOS over and over, messing with settings, boot order, etc, but still get the same result. Every time I try to boot from the SSD it crashes quickly a few times and goes into rescue mode. What’s odd is that even when I switched the boot order back to the internal drive just to get my machine running again it wouldn’t boot up until I physically removed the SSD from the computer. I’m sure I’m missing something here, but I’m completely stumped. And I did try to boot from the SSD connected via USB instead of the internal SATA mount but same story. SSD seems to work fine. PC works fine with built-in drive, but for some reason I can’t get them to work together no matter what I try. About to give up and just keep the internal drive as the boot disk and use the SSD as the data disk but I don’t really want to lose the performance of the SSD as the boot drive.
Maybe the SSD had a bad flash. Did you try reflashing it? Strange that it won’t boot from it. That’s typically indicative of an issue with the drive itself or the data on the drive.
That’s what I’m thinking too. I did reflash it a couple of times so I’m at a loss. If the drive itself were bad I doubt it would even accept the flash but who knows. Going to completely wipe the drive and try again but not too hopeful it will work.
Got it working. Long story short I ended up having to delete the HAOS install on the internal eMMC disk because no matter what I did in the BIOS it would start booting from the new SSD and then look to mount from the eMMC. Was able to manually point it back to the SSD using the edit command in the GRUB utility and that got me as far as the CLI but then I got errors in the web interface saying there were duplicate installs of HAOS on the machine. Essentially, HA wasn’t sophisticated enough to ignore my old installation on the built in drive and since it’s not possible to unplug it I had to erase it so it wouldn’t try booting from two locations at the same time. It was scary to put all my faith in a downloaded backup but once I erased the eMMC it booted solely from the SSD and I was able to restore my instance. Wish there were a way to keep the old install on the eMMC in these situations just in case something goes wrong with the restore but it all finally worked.
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