My steps to success for Hass.io on Intel NUC

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Hi there, after 3 days of trying almost everything to install HA on my NUC’s (I have 2 same) I found a way how it works even on internal 32GB eMMC - so myth that it is not working with eMMC is BUSTED :wink:

Will be short, lot of details you can find somewhere above.

My config: pretty old second hand NUC 5GPYH (Pentium with 2GB RAM and 32GB eMMC) for same price as Rasperry Pi, but with lot of advantages.

  1. Update BIOS, latest is from 2020 (F7 on boot)
  2. Load defaults (F9) - do NOT switch system to Linux (as in my config I lost boot drive?!?)
  3. Use Ubuntu USB disk and boot from it (try Ubuntu)
  4. download official HA NUC compressed image (xz file) and put it to another USB drive
  5. under Ubuntu (steps 5-10): use built-in DISC utility, wipe all partitions from eMMC
  6. Run web browser, download Balena Etcher, decompress, save somewhere and run
  7. source will be image from USB step (4) target eMMC
  8. after etching is done, go back to DISK utility, you shoud see several partitions on eMMC
  9. go to first one (boot) right click and edit partition, mark as BOOT and UEFI
  10. shutdown Ubuntu, put away both USBs
  11. boot NUC (maybe try F10 and choose UEFI eMMC)
  12. HomeAssistant is running for the first time, it tooks less then a minute, you should see login: prompt
  13. type “root” (just word root, no " :wink: and press ENTER
  14. there is some warning that CLI is not installed, switching to emergency console (that is fine)
  15. type nmcli + ENTER -> you will see IP address of your NUC (like e.g. 192.168.1.15) - depends on your DHCP server pool
  16. on other machine (eg your PC) use web browser, type that IP:8123 (eg. 192.168.1.15:8123)
  17. you will see HA logo with message “preparing, wait 20 minutes”…
  18. It took like 2-3 min in reality to have HA ready
  19. go back to NUC screen, type: “shutdown now” - will reboot HA machine
  20. after new boot, on NUC screen you will se again login prompt, again type root + ENTER
  21. now you will see text logo HomeAssistant and its IP address and green ha > prompt
  22. on other machine’s web browser you can start with creating user etc.

On other NUC I did it easier way, I “sacrified” eMMC and used SSD SATA drive 2,5"

Steps 1+2 same (update bios)

Just plugged SSD it to my PC through USB adapter, used Balena Etcher for PC, “burn” image (step 4 above) to it, installed on NUC, set it up as first boot device and continued from step 11)

Hope this helps.

Qustions?

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