Install HAOS baremetal on Dell 9020?

Installation
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Background: been running HA on RPI4 for years. I want to look into moving to some spare hardware i have soon, but first wanted to look into putting my voice load on a 2nd instance - hence the Dell 9020.

I tried for days to get the vhdx to work on HyperV, but once there couldn’t access Supervisor, or Addons or Pipelines.

So i decided to try native on a Dell 9020. I’ve grabbed the generic x86 image build a USB. I get the device to banner, but can’t connect to 8123. I’ve expended a lot of cycles with AI tools trying to troubleshoot and blown tons of commands at this thing. I’ve flattened the drive a couple times with diskpart even.

I can get to banner with the USB stick in but dont’ find any bootable devices if i remove it and restart.

I’m set UEFI on, Secure boot off, and all the other recommended BIOS options…

Has anyone successfully deployed Generic to a Dell 9020?

#Frustrated.

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Did you restore the image to your Dell hard drive using a Ubuntu live disk?

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Why Hyper-V? I’d recomemnd Proxmox VE.
When booted, what does ha network info show? If it doesn’t boot, have you created the boot entry via efibootmgr?

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I gave up on the boot to USB approach and had success booting to Ubuntu and then Etcher’ing HAOS directly on to the 9020’s disk… weird.

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it wasn’t a restore scenario, it was a bare-metal new install requirement. Thx.

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I’m not sure why you would want to have HAOS bare metal.

I’m running haos in a virtual box on a much les capable machine. I use the other part of the machine for running an mqtt broker z2m, and a very nice irrigation controller called SIP which stands for sustainable irrigation platform.

I also use the spare bandwidth on the box for running a custom energy monitoring system.

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I’m just trying things out… Hyper V, Pi, Bare Metal, I’ve got loads of hardware lying about. My Smartthings Hubs at three locations are all integrated in. My home ST has 200+ devices (lights, GDO, pool, ESPs, etc.)…

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How would You know ?, Dell 9020 Comes in Many “Flavors” , From 4 Cores / 8MB DDR3 etc.
I would not consider HyperV ( Or Any VM’s ) , for more than a small OS test environment , Definitely Not Load it With i.e LLM’s and Voice Load , If it Only can “borrow 2 Cores/4MB RAM” From Windows
BareMetal sounds like best Option , in such case

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@chantal I had tried method 2 (install from boot media) and just didn’t seem to find success. So eventually, I fell back and did Method 1. It seemed like a bit of extra work for not much bang, but it turns out that workd for B/M and Method 2 didn’t for my hardware. ?shrug.

I’m able to do some voice assistant testing and evaluation now. so it’s all good. I can rehome this on a better platform later (HyperV, Proxmoxx, something with a GPU etc).