I’m new to Home Assistant and thought it would be easy to install, so I bought a Dell PowerEdge R630 server with PERC H730P controller and 2 SSD drives. I followed all the instructions for the Generic x86-64 installation, Ubuntu boots fine from USB and the image is created on the Raid0 2TB drive, but when I try to boot into HAOS, it stops at either “Waiting for root device PARTUUID=” and then gives the id of the system partition or, depending on the BIOS SATA mode, it will go past that point and stall after USB Hub detection.
Either way, I’m guessing that there is some sort of hardware issue keeping it from installing and I’m hoping someone has had similar issues and resolved them! I am determined to get HAOS installed natively on this box so I can add Frigate and Plex to it and utilize the other RAID controller for those.
I tried it, but not being familiar with Proxmox, I gave up. That may be my fallback.
The IT guy in me loved the idea of a RAID OS drive, but it has proven far more difficult than I thought it would be. I may look for a native SATA connection on this motherboard.
However, I was able to install HA Core on an Ubuntu installation and make it work. However, it was Ubuntu accessing the PERC rather than straight HAOS.
It’s a waste of resources to just install HA (directly) on such a system.
I would advice you to have a look again at Proxmox (which is built on Debian Linux, which also is used for Ubuntu) and figure out how to make that RAID controller work.
With Proxmox you can install HA as a Virtual Machine which gives you additional options & flexibility and on top of that you can install the other stuff as VM’s or containers (LXC)
By not installing Frigate & Plex on top of HA, you don’t make them dependent on HA and since you are new to HA, the other systems will still work if you have to shutdown, restart, rebuild, … HA