Greeting dbrand666 thanks for your post. if you could, being new to HA and Linux, and trying to install on a legacy machine, could you maybe give more detail and make it easier to understand for a newbie. Thank you!
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Thanks you for editing the code added line(s). From someone who doesnât know linux and was giving this another shot. It finally worked for me.
Welcome to the community!
Glad it worked for you. Iâll keep updating the instructions with the feedback Iâm getting. If you had trouble figuring anything out, let me know.
The problem I was having is I didnât know how to create a grub.cfg and you didnât mention how to do it. Iâm assuming the new line you entered does that and the last line saves it? Also when you said to install grub on the HassIO drive, I wasnât sure if you meant a specific partition. I left it as dev/sda with out a partition and it work, so I guess not. Now I get to spend the weekend seting up my second instance. Thanks again
Greetings and thank you both for your help,
Installed grub on /dev/sda9
When trying to install grub on /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 get following error:
âInstalling for i386 - pc platform.
grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of âoverlayâ.â
Did you remember to run this?
sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mntyes i did. i just tried it again now and same error
That second grub install (using just sda) is the right one. If the install to /dev/sda1 didnât damage anything, you should be able to boot now.
Otherwise, you might need to start from the top again.
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@dbrand666 BTW you donât even need to create a new partition. Iâve used the EFI boot partition (/dev/sda1) to install GRUB files there on APU2, worked like a charm.
- Boot APU into some Linux live USB (Iâve used SysrescueCD)
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ddthe HAOS image to APUâs internal SSD (or from where you boot it),/dev/sdain my case
xzcat haos_generic-x86-64-9.4.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sda bs=1m - Mount
/dev/sda1(EFI boot partition) to/mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot --force /dev/sda
Then just create a /mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg with the following content:
set root=(hd0,gpt1)
configfile (hd0,gpt1)/efi/boot/grub.cfg
- Unmount
/mnt, take bootable USB out and reboot - Done, HAOS booting
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@blind-oracle I specifically didnât want to touch any of the partitions âownedâ by HassIO just in case it decides to mess with them during an upgrade. I agree itâs pretty unlikely though and worst case youâd just need to reinstall GRUB.
@dbrand666 Yeah, I agree. But sda1 is just dumb standard EFI FAT32 which has EFI GRUB stuff inside which probably never gets updated (and even if it does we donât care since we install in other folder). So, probably it should work fine. Time will tell 
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It worked!!! Thank you @dbrand666, unfortunately now I am stuck in perpetual âPreparing Home Assistant.â In its long script at the end it reads: â23-01-23 18:06:06 WARNING (MainThread) [supervisor.homeassistant.core] Error on Home Assistant installation. Retry in 30secâ
BTW, this is my third installation of HAOS.
May go now to: Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Debian 11
Made a last-ditch effort with an operational and updated install of HA on an SSD of an UEFI x86-64 system. I applied your instructions from there and itâs working wonderfully
I think the problem was how the install of HA from github.com created very small partitions and giving an error of not enough space on the dev/sda8.
I am grateful for you help and hopefully the system will be stable â thanks again very much!
Not enough space on sda8? Any chance you put sda9 right after sda8 instead of telling gparted to place it all the way at the end of the drive?
Maybe @blind-oracle 's suggestion of installing GRUB right into sda1 is easier to follow. Sorry.
I did put sda9 right after sda8. I will try again with the other drive; but I need a bit more help understanding @blind-oracle instructions - thanks @dbrand666!
BTW sda8 used up all the rest of the space on the drive. I had to reduce its size to get the 10MBs to create the sda9 partition on the UEFI system that I used.
sda8 doesnât get expanded until you boot for the first time. You should be able to create an sda9 at the end of the disk right after you copy the HassIO image to it. Make sure to say yes when gparted asks you whether to fix the disk
As for @blind-oracle 's instructions, just skip the part where I had you create the sda9 partition and mount the existing sda1 instead.
Thank you both @dbrand666 and @blind-oracle â its working great! This is how I did it (hoping it helps other newbies) with both your help:
Using Debian 11 Live I installed HAOS @ Terminal:
Logged in as root user
sudo su -
Downloaded and installed Home Assistant
curl -L https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.4/haos_generic-x86-64-9.4.img.xz |xz -d >/dev/sda
Mounted sda1
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
Installed grub2
sudo apt install grub2sudo grub-install --compress=xz --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda --force
Configured the grub.cfg file
cat <<! | sudo dd of=/mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfgset root=(hd0,gpt1)configfile (hd0,gpt1)/efi/boot/grub.cfg!
Unmount sda1
sudo umount /dev/sda1exit
Closed Terminal, shutdown pc, removed Debian 11 Live boot usb and restarted x86-64-bit system with a non-UEFI Legacy BIOS.
Thank you both, I could not have done it without your support â onward to Automation Creation!
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Hi @carloshurtadom!
Your post is very useful for newbies. I have followed all your steps with some modifications:
- -force must be --force
- Before install grub 2 I must make an apt update (if not throws an error that grub2 doesnât exists)
- unmount must be umount
I was able to install grub but HAOS doesnât start and I donât know the reason. I attach you a screenshot. Itâ seems that there is no fail in any step, but Iâm not sure. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance
Saludos @zantos, thank you for your help; I made the typos corrections.
I am a newbie too and hope that others can help; @dbrand666 & @blind-oracle were very helpful to me.
Sorry I do not know enough to make any sense of your screenshot.
All the best
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