Flashed the img with balena etcher. Seems nothing works!
Instead of flashing to a USB stick and plugging it into a NUC with no OS (this failed for me) either flash directly to the NUC HD, or install a base OS and run the install script:
- Debian (officially supported): Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Debian 10
- Ubuntu (works fine): Installing Home Assistant Supervised on Ubuntu 18.04.4
I flashed the file on my hdd with balena etcher, and nothing works. Your links are unsupported installations.
Supervised on Debian is not unsupported.
I flashed an 2.5 SSD with BalenaEtcher, installed in the NUC, and receive a āImage Authorization Fail. system can not boot to this device due to security violation.ā Get the same error with the USB stick.
UPDATE: Opening the BIOS tool and selecting the SSD to boot from seems to have circumvented whatever security issue there was. Up and running.
Please help - my NUC freezes when I boot from USB and my googling has failed me.
I bought a NUC5i3RYK, installed brand new RAM and SSD (not NVMe), updated the bios, flashed hassio to a USB drive using Etcher, but the NUC freezes when I boot with the USB plugged in. I get some very brief output and then a blank screen with just an underscore at the the top and the functions legend at the bottom (press F2 for setup, etc.), except itās frozen.
This was briefly printed before freezing:
Bootchooser: No valid targets found.
and
Nothing bootable found.
Maybe something went wrong with Etcher, even though it said success?
No wonder. You need to flash the image to the SSD directly. The easiest way is to remove the SSD from the NUC, connect it to a PC (10$USB to SATA adapter) and flash with etcher. Done.
In case you want to go the USB way, you have to flash a Linux live version to the USB drive, and from there flash the SSD. The HASSIO image is not bootable from USB
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Yikes, okay. Thanks for the reply. I had thought steps 4-6 at the very top were pretty clear that I needed to flash and boot from the USB, but I guess the edit for NVMe also applies to non NVMe drives.
If I go the Linux Live route, is the end result still the same (only Hass OS installed on the SSD) or will I end up with HA running inside Linux as a container/VM? Trying to keep if relatively simple so Iād actually prefer to dedicate the NUC to HA for now.
the image downloaded from that github always says corrupt tried to install with various method etcher etc and all complain corrupt downloaded on 3 different devices HA need to sort their crap out with nucs so hard to make them work getting very fed up now.
Just wanted to give update in this thread. I got my new NUC8i5BEK with NVME running using the latest official release (4.12) and not the dev 4.5. So now it seems the official one works. My steps have been listed above but if anyone wants a fresh step-by-step that worked, then here goes:
- Make sure bios is updated to latest on NUC, Use F2 upon boot to explore bios and see what version you are on. Go to Intel site for your NUC version and download latest bios. Extract the files to a clean usb root directory. Put USB in the NUC and press F7 in the boot up and follow instructions. Very important to wait until this is complete and the computer reboots itself. Afterwards go into bios again (F2). Do Factory default (F9) and then you must go into advanced --> boot secure --> disable secure boot. Press F10 to save and exit.
- Download latest official release (v 4.12).
- Unpack the .gz file to a clean usb so only the .img file is in the root (note usb had to be NTFS for me due to large size).
- Download Ubuntu Desktop (right now Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS). It will be a .iso file
- Make a bootable USB from this file (Windows: recommend Rufus and follow this guide https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#2-requirements if youāre on Mac follow this https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#1-overview )
- Put the bootable ubuntu usb and the USB with the hassio in the NUC and fire it up. Ubuntu will load, choose Try Ubuntu option and you will get to the desktop.
- Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open up a terminal window. Type: gnome-disks press enter
- Click on your NVMe disk. Then click on the āsettingsā icon (looks like gears) and choose āRestore partition imageā.
- I canāt remember exactly how it looked, but a new window will open and you will have to choose the source. Thus open the USB containing the hassio and choose the .img file and press ok. The image will be loaded onto the NVMe-drive.
- Shut down the NUC. Remove both USBs.
- Start the NUC again. Hassio should load. I let mine be for 30 mins to allow for everything to download/update. Note I use ethernet and not WIFI, there might be an additional step needed.
UPDATE: on my second install I had to disable WIFI within bios before it would start. - Go to http://homeassistant.local:8123 to see that itās up and running.
Hope this helps someone as noob as me in regards to linux 
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This looks good - will try it.
The weird thing is that originally I set my NUC up using the exact same method as at the beginning of this post, then had to re-use the NUC for another purpose before loading HA again. Unfortunately no amount of trying including using the original img file from 2 years ago would now work.
This method actually sounds promising.
In 11. you write that you wait 30 mins for download and updates. Are there any output written to the screen during the 30 mins wait?
Iām asking because my NUC stops booting (no output to screen) after a few seconds. Excatly the same problem as Blair_Pollard had in this thread.
Ya, I gotta ask the same thingā¦Iām doing this in a virtual machine, and on a pi.
On the VM with no addon devices, it gets to port 4, says its starting version 3.2.9, and then sits there forever.
With the pi it gets the last āusbā device (which is the built in BT I think) the it sits there and every few minutes spams IPv6 link is not ready, power save enabled.
With the pi, it might be a bad powersupply, or a bad SD cardā¦but I have no clue what it is for the VM (Iāve also tried as a SATA, donāt really want to try as a scsii or ide unless someone says to)
Mine is on a NUC - no VM, and stops at the same place, the Bluetooth drivers. No amount of waiting will make it go any further,
OK, I figured it outā¦atleast for meā¦I had an internal DNS server that wasnāt running, the Hassio apparently doesnt lookup secondary DNSs that arenāt listed in its own files.
example:
hassio is on automatic
custom internal DNS 192.168.5.95 -> this is set on home router
standard DNS 8.8.8.8 -> this is set on cablemodem which router is plugged into
hassio will use the one set on the router but wont use the cablemodem one when the custom one fails (windows and ubuntu will both do this)
Which NUC do you have? And are you booting from a eMMC?
Edit: one more thing, I have noticed the NIC LEDs are both off. Is that the same for you?
Sorry, didnāt look. I have now successfully installed using Supervised install on Debian OS, which went without a hitch.
No worries. I found out that my problem is similar to HassOS Image not working on NUC 2TB SSD
Still no solution though.
Actually I didnt really pay that much attention. I just figured I would leave it for 20mins since the official installation instructions said so. I was out doing other things in the mean time and when I got back everythin was up and running!
I have just installed a m2 SSD in my NUC, and now it works. eMMC is apparently not supported.