Hi,
I’m trying to get HA installed on a Dell Optiplex 3080. I 've followed the generic x86 install instructions. I think I have the BIOS settings correct but I’m not sure?
On boot up, it get gets stuck here (see screenshot). No obvious error messages that I can see.
Any help would be appreciated.
Have you enabled ALL of the USB ports (front and back) in the BIOS?
Just wondering, since hid-generic is the last line in your log.
Yes, ALL USB ports are enabled.
another update for background/context if anyone is in a position to offer help:
I flashed the x86 image onto my m.2 ssd using etcher as described in the instructions. I had this in an enclosure plugged in via USB to the Dell. I was using the original windows OS that came installed.
I then swapped out the disks and changed the boot sequence in the BIOS so that UEFI was top and Windows Boot Manager was next (see screenshot). When I attempt to boot up, it hangs as per my original post.
I then put the original Windows disk back in, put the flashed m.2 ssd back in the enclosure and then booted from the usb drive. HA came up successfully?
So, am I missing a step somewhere? Does the new disk have to be in place before flashing it (i.e. not in the enclosure?
Would it be better to just try with a 2.5 inch SATA ssd in the secondary bay of the Dell?
Apologies for what will seem like silly questions. I’m not really clued up on Windows/Intel
Are you using a PCI M.2 SSD for booting and also have a second HD/SSD installed. If so, you may need to remove the second HD/SSD.
I’m using a PCI m.2 ssd to boot from (the flashed x86) there is no second HD/SSD installed. Im just swapping the original ssd (with Windows on it) with the new HA ssd
I’m also using the Optiplex. I experienced a fail to boot (perhaps the same as yours) after OS release 9.x. My initial installation uses the HD until I could acquire a m.2 SSD. When the SSD was set up and installed, it worked great. The HD remained as a backup in case of a ssd failure. OS release 9.x failed to boot. Physically removing the hard drive solved the issue. Don’t consider myself very compentent on such issues. Just sharing experience.
Thanks.
I don’t understand how the m.2 ssd will boot HA successfully from the USB enclosure but not when I put it in the slot where the original windows ssd was?
Sorry, wish I were more knowledgable. Mine is in the slot and seem to work without issue so keep digging. It does work quite well.
I’ve recently rehomed a few Dell Optiplex micro systems. They are fantastic machines, inexpensive, small footprint, and powerful. The BIOS in these systems is the source of the difficulty. You can boot a USB stick (or other USB device) successfully, and it will even write to an internal device as expected. But when it completes, the BIOS will NOT see the other device as bootable. It all involves UEFI versus Legacy booting, and what the setup program writes to the destination disk. If the USB-based setup / copy operation does not write a set of EFI and BOOT directories to the destination device, and the BIOS is set for UEFI booting, it will not see the destination device as bootable.
A few years ago, simply enabling Legacy booting in the BIOS was the only action required. Then they introduced additional boot options, complicating the process. If nothing else, be certain to update the BIOS to the latest version available before attempting any software installations, and use the option to set it to all default settings. This is usually enough to make most installations succeed. I was required to install Windows on one of my OptiPlex systems, just to update the BIOS. Dell buries their BIOS files within a self-extracting executable, making it difficult to obtain and load a single BIOS binary file. 
Intel NUC systems have a BIOS that allows you to load an individual BIOS file, and they provide them freely to users. The Intel BIOS is graphical/GUI, and fairly easy to navigate, compared to the Dell BIOS.
@FredTheFrog
Thanks for detailed explanation.
Updating the BIOS didn’t help much so in the end, I put the original ssd (with Windows) back in and threw in a SATA 2.5 inch ssd in the secondary bay.
Etcher of course won’t allow you to flash an internal drive on Windows so I created a USB ubuntu instance and flashed the SATA drive that way.
After changing the boot sequence to boot from the SATA drive, HA comes up successfully.
Not my ideal “solution” but I suppose if ever need a Windows instance for anything I can just boot into that.
Marking this as a “solution” but it’s really just a workaround.
Thanks again for the input from @FredTheFrog and @davebeckster
