Issue Installing HAOS

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Trying to set up a new HAOS System on an Intel NUC7i5. I have successfully done this previously on an NUC5i5…but here is what I am running in to.

Equipment
Intel NUC7i5DNHE1
Bios DNi50079 (updated during this process)
SSD TEAMGROUP MP33 1TB SLC Cache 3D NAND TLC NVMe 1.3
8 GB of Teamgroup 2133 (2@4GB ea)

Process

  1. Downloaded Ubuntu Desktop Image and used Balena Etcher to create bootable USB

  2. Went in to BIOS and set UEFI and disabled secure boot

  3. Booted into Ubuntu on the NUC via USB

  4. Installed Balena Etcher via this process:
    sudo add-apt-repository universe -y
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install libfuse2

    sudo apt update
    wget ‘https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v1.14.3/balena-etcher_1.14.3_amd64.deb’
    sudo dpkg -i balena-etcher_1.14.3_amd64.deb
    sudo rm balena-etcher_1.14.3_amd64.deb
    sudo apt update -y
    sudo apt --fix-broken install -y

  5. Opened Balena Etcher

  6. Choose Install from URL

  7. Pasted the following in to Balena:
    https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/10.4/haos_generic-x86-64-10.4.img.xz

  8. Choose the hard drive as the target

  9. Hit Flash

  10. When I reboot and remove the USB after flash, the attempted bootup give me:
    Booting `Slot A (OK=0 TRY=0) ’

I have tried the following:

  1. Download the HAOS file and flash from file - same result
  2. Update BIOS - same result
  3. Download a previous version (9.5) and flash from file - same result

Hoping someone has an answer? There are no log files, as it quits before it gets that far

2

Also, just for kicks I installed Ubuntu on the SSD just to be sure all was well and bootable. Worked as expected. Then retried HAOS with the same result as previous

3

When I did this to had to use gnome disks to wipe all the partitions. I don’t know if you just omitted that in your post, or… ??

See: How to install Home Assistant OS on an Intel NUC or any x86 PC - YouTube

Kudos on using github to download etcher. I get a lot of complaints about the video because of balena pulling it from their cloud hosting provider…

4

Thank you for that information. Really quite an excellent video. Actually thought I was making headway, as when I tried to create the partition in gnome-disks it errored out. So i went to gdisk and rewrote the partition tables, then successfully followed your example. Sadly, no difference in the end result, still the same Slot A thing

5

Thank you for the kind words!

Hrmm… Did you disable secure boot as shown in the video as well? A quick google on the issue shows that some folks had some issues with firmware. Have you tried updating the BIOS of the NUC to the latest?

6

Yeah…I felt like your description was exactly me…lol. I worked on this for hours (of course thinking it would take 20 mins) and did the BIOS update and checked and rechecked the secure boot and UEFI setings in the BIOS

7

Hmmm…really confused now. I put a Samsung 980 SATA drive in it instead of the NVME drive…same result.

8

Ok…so figuring it HAD to be the machine, I went in and disabled UEFI, rebooted. Then went back in to BIOS and re-enabled UEFI…works fine on either the SATA or the NVME drive now. So there was something hinkey with the BIOS not setting…dunno…odd. But fixed :slight_smile:

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