Installing Home Assistant OS on an NVMe drive

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Hi!

it was super easy:

  1. insert NVME drive into a USB enclosure
  2. Download HAOS image and use Balena Etcher to write the image to the NVME
  3. Put EP-0241 onto the PI, connect the ribbon cable.
  4. insert NVME into the EP-0241
  5. plug in network and after 5mins or so it was ready to go.

nothing more nothing less

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Thanks, I’m facing few issues…I guess you have not any like that ?

Also since your process doesn’t involve SD card, how did you apply EPROM changes then ?

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i didnt apply any EPROM changes. And i do have 3 USB (Sonoff zigbee, Aeotec Zwave, Sky connect) sticks connected.
I power it via POE.

Did you had POE and USB power connected simultaneously? because that will brick the hat if i read the manual.

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no, only via POE. I’ll redo following your steps on the weekend to see if that fixes this occasional reboot loop issue.
Just to confirm I did these steps too

dtparam=pciex1
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

Enable auto detection PCIe and booting from NVME.
sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

PCIE_PROBE=1
BOOT_ORDER=0xf416

but not these one as per Geekpi wiki

sudo fdisk /dev/nvme0n1
and then input:

> p
> n
> p
> 1 
> Enter 
> Enter  
> w 
> q
* Format the partition 
<pre>
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/nmve0n1p1 
Create mounting point and mounting the partion to the mounting point.
mkdir ~/mydata 
sudo mount -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1 /home/pi/mydata -v 
Automount configuration， edit /etc/fstab file and adding following parameters:
sudo vim.tiny /etc/fstab 
adding:

/dev/nvme0n1p1     /home/pi/mydata   ext4   defaults,noatime   0  0

While you did neither of these… which also means you’re not running PCI Gen3.

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I’d like to know how you did this too.
Do you have the commands?

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For those still trying to figure this out. I followed this guide and it was super easy, no keyboard or screen required. I just enabled VNC through SSH and used a Remote Desktop session to do the NVME install. Installing Home Assistant on Raspberry Pi 5 NVMe Storage - Martin Rowan

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Hi,
I have been running this setup since June, and it, well, sort of works. It is running well enough, at least to a degree that I didn’t put any energy into trying to fix my issues.
So what are the issues? Well, in a random fashion, the Pi just loses the disk. I haven’t found any pattern or managed to see anything in the logs, but sometimes everything works as a charm for a month, and sometimes it just loses the disk after 12 hours.
The easy fix is a power cycle and then everything is fine… For a while :rofl:

My main problem now is that when the winter is coming, I can’t have this behavior anymore as some of my radiators are controlled by simple thermostats.

Does anyone else have similar issues?

Any ideas would be very appreciated!!

Using geekworm X1001 with a crucial P3 500G gen 3.

Maybe I will have to create some external watchdog or go back to SD Card…

Edit: And yes, I’m using the recommended standard pi5 power supply.

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Ok, let’s see if this will help.

  • Updated to latest eeprom (and no, HassOS updates doesn’t do this, I checked my version and it wasn’t updated)
  • Added dtparam=pciex1 to confix.txt (shouldn’t be needed, should auto-detect on pi5)
  • Added dtparam=pciex_gen=3 to config.txt (maybe it’s more stable, let’s see)

Fingers crossed, no issues so far:-)

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