🛠 Troubleshooting Etcher Stuck or Frozen - Try Gnome Disk Tool: Hey everyone, I've noticed some of you are facing an issue with Etcher getting stuck. If you're encountering this problem, here's a workaround that might help: Alternative Solution: Gnome Disk Tool Some viewers have suggested using the "Gnome Disk Tool" as an alternative to Etcher, and it seems to work smoothly without these issues. Give it a try, and you might find it to be a reliable option for your installations. Feel free to share your experiences with Gnome Disk Tool or any other solutions you've come across. Happy experimenting, P.S. Remember, troubleshooting can vary depending on system configurations, so your input and suggestions can be valuable to others in the community. 🚀
Are you able to close the laptop while have HA still operational, or does it still go into sleep mode? I tried a laptop a few years ago and when i close the lid it would shut off my server, haven't done this method yet, just want to know before i attempt it
It depends on the laptop you use, mine had a setting in the bios that I could change and allowed it to be closed, others that I've used required it to remain open
Great, informative video that I followed to a T and it worked perfectly on my old Thinkpad E520 laptop that was just sitting around collecting dust. Thank you for the step by step instructions! 👍
Many thanks! With your excellent guide I was able to migrate to a spare Dell 7390 i7, Gen8 in a couple of hours. I have fairly large HA setup+frigate+multiple cameras (+ Coral). My old Synology DS218+ VM struggled a lot but it goes superfast with the laptop. Superhappy!
I'm not sure, I've not seen it by that name. However, a lot of people are having issues with etcher, so I suggest you try gnome disk tool instead, as mentioned in my pinned comment.
The preferred method is hard wired, but you can use WiFi. Check out my first video on setting it up via WiFi if you need the help. ua-cam.com/video/qmijXm3hmg4/v-deo.html
Thank you! Installation boots up on an HP ThinClient to the HAOS terminal command prompt. Then you just kind of skip over the next part.. what do I do next? it says put in the IP address into your web browser, but I can't find any web browser associated with HAOS. any suggesstions on where to go from the command prompt to actually get Home Assistant to start?
Ah sorry, that hp thin client will get an IP address, use that ip address in another computer's web browser and you will see the onboarding page. Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123 The :8123 is the port that home assistant runs on
balenaetcher wont let me check the execute as program. i did the apt and libefuse2 still nothing. i tried double clicking it and it just said no application. can i just install ubuntu and make my laptop ubuntu instead of windows will i still be able to install home assistant?
Balena etcher is not the program that does that. It's the live environment of Ubuntu that does. This will wipe out the laptop and it will be only for home assistant, and you'd use another computer to access the web interface. You need 2 USB drives for this, one is a bootable version of Ubuntu called a live OS, you plug it in to the computer before it boots and then it will boot from that USB
I followed your instructions, but with Belena Etcher i couldn't flash the image to drive, the notbook froze at 33%. So i tried to write the image with the build in gnome disk and it worked. Then after restart i get a message "reboot and select proper boot device". I have set the boot in de Bios to UEFI, the secure boot option is not an option in my BIOS so i can't enable or disable this. I also checked if i could specify the EFI entry, i saw this at the Home assistant site, but when i "sudo efibootmgr" in the terminal it says "EFI variables are not supported on this system". That is strange becaus the Bios says i can enable and Disable EUFI Boot option. So i don't know what i can try next to make it work. I have a Samsung Series 5 NP535U3C-A02NL. Installing Ubuntu on the SSD works just fine.
Thanks for the comments and supporting the channel. I think you are best to bring this up on the home assistant forum, where a dev would have the chance to help you.
Hey, that error message is a known bug in the newer versions, you can try to use an older one, which is why I share the version I'm using, or use any other software like gnome disks like my pinned comment says.
Just been following your tutorial, i've flashed my hard drive in ubuntu, But when i restart my Laptop and remove the memory stick it just says non bootable device found? when i insert my ubuntu usb again and check disk management its made 8 partitions is that right or am i missing something, thanks
Debian 11 on windows 10 virtualbox with ha supervised is the best choice to keep full control of the systems and use apps off the 2 worlds. I use winsound to play wav files via mqtt messages and python scripts? also to send processor temperature to home assistant and windows SAPI tts
It's great to hear that you have found a setup that works well for you! It sounds like you have a solid understanding of these technologies and are using them creatively to accomplish your goals. Keep up the good work!
when i get to the step of verifying permissions on the balenaetcher appimage file, i can check the allow executing check box but it immediately unchecks. Thoughts?
That's a weird one, only thing I can think of off hand is somehow you don't own the file. So on the terminal in the directory where the file is try running this command to add the needed permissions: sudo chmod +rwx 'filename' Where 'filename' is the actual filename of the appimage
@@BinaryTechLabs I think it had to do with how I formatted the file system on the drive that contained these files. i selected ms-dos fat. I dont think ubuntu can write to that.
Great video, however when I tried doing this and followed the steps and flashed the Image to my disk drive, upon reboot. I just get a spit out from Slot A on the command line of computer components and manufacturer.
@@BinaryTechLabs Looking at the logs, Im not sure there is any specific error. My guess is that the components in the PC arent compatible? (which would be weird) Just tried your method on another setup and it worked flawlessly.
Hello, i have installed HAOS on X86 64, flashed the ssd with etcher. However, superviser does not start, also i have a message waiting for HA CLI to be ready . Please Help
That is perfect, that's what you want to see, now also you should see an ip address there, use that ip address in another computer's web browser like this : Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123
@@BinaryTechLabs Thank you very much. So it is normal that the message "waiting for supervisor to start up" and " waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready" stays like that on the start screen ?. I Can Access home assistant on the app and browser, it is just those two messages that bothers me, I Wonder if the install is good like that and will be duly supervised.
Yeah that is normal, and sometimes it takes a bit of time to get up and running after a new install. It's setting everything up. But it means that you have installed everything correctly
ubuntu froze and then logged me out... and i tought it didn't go trough but it did the job, just restart PC it will tell you to unplug the USB and it should work, just...wait about 15min after home assistant welcome screen appears, because it seems like its still doing something in the background where you are not seeing it even in CLI
Thanks for the videos. First time I tried this everything went smoothly till the final boot. Just a blinking cursor. Plugged in usb drive, Ubuntu live, look at disk and there were multiple partitions with HA about the 4th one. None of them mounted. What should the disk partitions look like ? I'll try again and see what transpires.
Home assistant will make 7 partitions, if I remember that correctly, it takes a bit before it unpack and installs everything, then it should connect to your network
@@BinaryTechLabs gets to 26% freezes. Screen goes blank after a while then it presents the user name signon screen. If I perform a shut down, remove usb, a restart just gives a flashing cursor. No boot. 8 partitions are created but a huge portion of the disk is left unallocated. Using latest Ubuntu, 1.18 of balena, added the universal and libfuse2. Always has to be one person, right?
@@BinaryTechLabs balena hangs at 36% everytime. Machine unresponsive. Partitions get created but no granted is unable to read contents of file system and partitions unmounted. If I run balena in a terminal I get a flash failed but no other messages.
That is weird. Others reported that flashing stops, but it does successfully flash. If you reboot up with the live environment it won't mount the drive. If you reboot without the live usb what happens? You should see this screen at some point.
My Chrome box stucks at 32% . Not responsive at all..no mouse, no keyboard... I leave it like this for a while because I see that the LED from the USB drive is still flashing from time to time. I don't know if is still installing or is just stuck...
Hey, as another viewer, terrancezhao mentioned, "Etcher stuck at 28% percent and stopped responding," so because Etcher was the problem, they used the built-in gnome disk tool instead, and it worked without issue. I hope that helps!
I don't see why not, only issue that you might come across is an unsupported network card, but if you do there are usb network cards or WiFi also works.
Try the exact same procedure as you listed in the video, but I can never finish flashing, Etcher stuck at 28% percent and ubuntu stop responding. I already deleted all the partitions like you did in your video. Now my whole home is down because of this, any suggestion is appreciated!
The only thing I can suggest is to give it time, there are a few people who have run into this issue. I am not sure why that happens. In the many times I have done this, I've not been able to reproduce this. Sorry, I know that is not the answer you were hoping to get.
Why does BalenaEtcher not allow me to select the System Drive (12:11 of this video; it shows as a hidden option but is not clickable... using BE v1.18.4-x64.AppImage AND USB is format as FAT32 AND Ubuntu is running off separate USB as NTFS in order to store whole ISO because file greater than 4GB)?
Are you booting into a live Linux environment from the USB stick? That tends to happen if you are booting from the system drive, it won't let you erase it
@Binary Tech Labs Yes, booting into USB Ubuntu (believed to be live Linux environment; when laptop turns on hit ESC to choose boot from USB). This is on laptop: ASUS EEE PC 1005PE. As stated in video, X'ed out of Try or Install Ubuntu.
🛠 Troubleshooting Etcher Stuck or Frozen - Try Gnome Disk Tool:
Hey everyone,
I've noticed some of you are facing an issue with Etcher getting stuck. If you're encountering this problem, here's a workaround that might help:
Alternative Solution: Gnome Disk Tool
Some viewers have suggested using the "Gnome Disk Tool" as an alternative to Etcher, and it seems to work smoothly without these issues. Give it a try, and you might find it to be a reliable option for your installations.
Feel free to share your experiences with Gnome Disk Tool or any other solutions you've come across.
Happy experimenting,
P.S. Remember, troubleshooting can vary depending on system configurations, so your input and suggestions can be valuable to others in the community. 🚀
👆
Are you able to close the laptop while have HA still operational, or does it still go into sleep mode? I tried a laptop a few years ago and when i close the lid it would shut off my server, haven't done this method yet, just want to know before i attempt it
It depends on the laptop you use, mine had a setting in the bios that I could change and allowed it to be closed, others that I've used required it to remain open
Great, informative video that I followed to a T and it worked perfectly on my old Thinkpad E520 laptop that was just sitting around collecting dust. Thank you for the step by step instructions! 👍
You're welcome, glad it worked out!
Many thanks! With your excellent guide I was able to migrate to a spare Dell 7390 i7, Gen8 in a couple of hours. I have fairly large HA setup+frigate+multiple cameras (+ Coral). My old Synology DS218+ VM struggled a lot but it goes superfast with the laptop. Superhappy!
You are very welcome. Glad it helped you and thanks for taking the time to let me know ❤️
Great video. I have only one USB port on my laptop. How can I boot Ubuntu from a bootable USB drive and then install HA without removing the USB pen?
You can use a USB hub
Im trying to get Belena on usb drive. Ive downloaded a etcher master. Is that the right one?
I'm not sure, I've not seen it by that name. However, a lot of people are having issues with etcher, so I suggest you try gnome disk tool instead, as mentioned in my pinned comment.
Do you have to be hard wired or can you use WiFi for setup and to run Home Assistant ??
The preferred method is hard wired, but you can use WiFi. Check out my first video on setting it up via WiFi if you need the help.
ua-cam.com/video/qmijXm3hmg4/v-deo.html
Thank you! Installation boots up on an HP ThinClient to the HAOS terminal command prompt. Then you just kind of skip over the next part.. what do I do next? it says put in the IP address into your web browser, but I can't find any web browser associated with HAOS. any suggesstions on where to go from the command prompt to actually get Home Assistant to start?
Ah sorry, that hp thin client will get an IP address, use that ip address in another computer's web browser and you will see the onboarding page. Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123
The :8123 is the port that home assistant runs on
@Binary Tech Labs Got it, thank you very much?
You are very welcome! Glad it worked out.
balenaetcher wont let me check the execute as program. i did the apt and libefuse2 still nothing. i tried double clicking it and it just said no application. can i just install ubuntu and make my laptop ubuntu instead of windows will i still be able to install home assistant?
Balena etcher is not the program that does that. It's the live environment of Ubuntu that does.
This will wipe out the laptop and it will be only for home assistant, and you'd use another computer to access the web interface.
You need 2 USB drives for this, one is a bootable version of Ubuntu called a live OS, you plug it in to the computer before it boots and then it will boot from that USB
I followed your instructions, but with Belena Etcher i couldn't flash the image to drive, the notbook froze at 33%. So i tried to write the image with the build in gnome disk and it worked. Then after restart i get a message "reboot and select proper boot device". I have set the boot in de Bios to UEFI, the secure boot option is not an option in my BIOS so i can't enable or disable this.
I also checked if i could specify the EFI entry, i saw this at the Home assistant site, but when i "sudo efibootmgr" in the terminal it says "EFI variables are not supported on this system". That is strange becaus the Bios says i can enable and Disable EUFI Boot option.
So i don't know what i can try next to make it work. I have a Samsung Series 5 NP535U3C-A02NL.
Installing Ubuntu on the SSD works just fine.
Thanks for the comments and supporting the channel. I think you are best to bring this up on the home assistant forum, where a dev would have the chance to help you.
Everytime i try and flash the home assistant image, it gives me an error opening source.
Error: (0,h.requestMetadata) is not found
Hey, that error message is a known bug in the newer versions, you can try to use an older one, which is why I share the version I'm using, or use any other software like gnome disks like my pinned comment says.
Just been following your tutorial, i've flashed my hard drive in ubuntu, But when i restart my Laptop and remove the memory stick it just says non bootable device found? when i insert my ubuntu usb again and check disk management its made 8 partitions is that right or am i missing something, thanks
Yes it does make a lot of partitions, it's weird that it's not booting. Maybe double check your bios to ensure uefi boot and disable secure booting
Debian 11 on windows 10 virtualbox with ha supervised is the best choice to keep full control of the systems and use apps off the 2 worlds. I use winsound to play wav files via mqtt messages and python scripts? also to send processor temperature to home assistant and windows SAPI tts
It's great to hear that you have found a setup that works well for you!
It sounds like you have a solid understanding of these technologies and are using them creatively to accomplish your goals. Keep up the good work!
when i get to the step of verifying permissions on the balenaetcher appimage file, i can check the allow executing check box but it immediately unchecks. Thoughts?
That's a weird one, only thing I can think of off hand is somehow you don't own the file. So on the terminal in the directory where the file is try running this command to add the needed permissions:
sudo chmod +rwx 'filename'
Where 'filename' is the actual filename of the appimage
@@BinaryTechLabs I think it had to do with how I formatted the file system on the drive that contained these files. i selected ms-dos fat. I dont think ubuntu can write to that.
Did you reformat and try again?
@@BinaryTechLabs no, I coped the files to the downloads directory in the live image, and then I was able to modify the permissions accordingly.
Glad it worked out for you
Great video, however when I tried doing this and followed the steps and flashed the Image to my disk drive, upon reboot. I just get a spit out from Slot A on the command line of computer components and manufacturer.
What error is it giving you?
@@BinaryTechLabs Looking at the logs, Im not sure there is any specific error. My guess is that the components in the PC arent compatible? (which would be weird)
Just tried your method on another setup and it worked flawlessly.
Hmm that is weird, it most likely is a hardware issue. Also thanks for the support and comments
Hello, i have installed HAOS on X86 64, flashed the ssd with etcher. However, superviser does not start, also i have a message waiting for HA CLI to be ready . Please Help
That is perfect, that's what you want to see, now also you should see an ip address there, use that ip address in another computer's web browser like this :
Http://IP_ADDRESS:8123
@@BinaryTechLabs Thank you very much. So it is normal that the message "waiting for supervisor to start up" and " waiting for the home assistant CLI to be ready" stays like that on the start screen ?. I Can Access home assistant on the app and browser, it is just those two messages that bothers me, I Wonder if the install is good like that and will be duly supervised.
Yeah that is normal, and sometimes it takes a bit of time to get up and running after a new install. It's setting everything up. But it means that you have installed everything correctly
@@BinaryTechLabs Thank you very much !
No problem
ubuntu froze and then logged me out... and i tought it didn't go trough but it did the job, just restart PC it will tell you to unplug the USB and it should work, just...wait about 15min after home assistant welcome screen appears, because it seems like its still doing something in the background where you are not seeing it even in CLI
Thank you for the tip.
Thanks for the videos. First time I tried this everything went smoothly till the final boot. Just a blinking cursor. Plugged in usb drive, Ubuntu live, look at disk and there were multiple partitions with HA about the 4th one. None of them mounted.
What should the disk partitions look like ? I'll try again and see what transpires.
Home assistant will make 7 partitions, if I remember that correctly, it takes a bit before it unpack and installs everything, then it should connect to your network
@@BinaryTechLabs gets to 26% freezes. Screen goes blank after a while then it presents the user name signon screen. If I perform a shut down, remove usb, a restart just gives a flashing cursor. No boot. 8 partitions are created but a huge portion of the disk is left unallocated.
Using latest Ubuntu, 1.18 of balena, added the universal and libfuse2.
Always has to be one person, right?
Yeah, haha. Have you disabled secure boot and enabled uefi? It's the only thing I can think of
@@BinaryTechLabs balena hangs at 36% everytime. Machine unresponsive. Partitions get created but no granted is unable to read contents of file system and partitions unmounted. If I run balena in a terminal I get a flash failed but no other messages.
That is weird. Others reported that flashing stops, but it does successfully flash. If you reboot up with the live environment it won't mount the drive. If you reboot without the live usb what happens?
You should see this screen at some point.
My Chrome box stucks at 32% . Not responsive at all..no mouse, no keyboard... I leave it like this for a while because I see that the LED from the USB drive is still flashing from time to time. I don't know if is still installing or is just stuck...
Hey, as another viewer, terrancezhao mentioned, "Etcher stuck at 28% percent and stopped responding," so because Etcher was the problem, they used the built-in gnome disk tool instead, and it worked without issue. I hope that helps!
@@BinaryTechLabs I just finished installing HA with Gnome. Thanks :)
Awesome! I am just in the process of pinning a comment so others in the future can see it right away.
Could I use a cheap new Acer laptop for this?
I don't see why not, only issue that you might come across is an unsupported network card, but if you do there are usb network cards or WiFi also works.
Try the exact same procedure as you listed in the video, but I can never finish flashing, Etcher stuck at 28% percent and ubuntu stop responding. I already deleted all the partitions like you did in your video. Now my whole home is down because of this, any suggestion is appreciated!
The only thing I can suggest is to give it time, there are a few people who have run into this issue. I am not sure why that happens. In the many times I have done this, I've not been able to reproduce this.
Sorry, I know that is not the answer you were hoping to get.
@@BinaryTechLabs I figured it out, Etcher is the problem here, I tried the builtin gnome disk instead, and it worked like a charm.
Good to know, thanks for sharing
Why does BalenaEtcher not allow me to select the System Drive (12:11 of this video; it shows as a hidden option but is not clickable... using BE v1.18.4-x64.AppImage AND USB is format as FAT32 AND Ubuntu is running off separate USB as NTFS in order to store whole ISO because file greater than 4GB)?
Are you booting into a live Linux environment from the USB stick? That tends to happen if you are booting from the system drive, it won't let you erase it
@Binary Tech Labs Yes, booting into USB Ubuntu (believed to be live Linux environment; when laptop turns on hit ESC to choose boot from USB). This is on laptop: ASUS EEE PC 1005PE.
As stated in video, X'ed out of Try or Install Ubuntu.
Secure boot is disabled in your bios?
@Binary Tech Labs This is an old Windows 7 laptop/notebook. Thought it's old enough that's not an option, looked for and not seen in BIOS.
And the bios is capable of uefi booting? Other than that I am not sure why it's blocking you
i cant choosing pc's disk on etcher
Do you get any errors?
Great option... Nice video... 👍😜
Thank you. 😉
I installed Debian 11 on the laptop and then supervised HA on it - works great as well
Great to hear that, going that route is fairly advanced, as you have to manage a lot more, and the dev team does not really support that method.
@@BinaryTechLabs I think this is supported supervised option as per HA site
Are you talking about running the python virtual environment one?
@@BinaryTechLabs no, you install supervisor from HA web page and it pulls entire HA then
Yeah, ok. That is the advanced one, where you have to mange all the individual components yourself. You had to install apparmor, jq, dbus etc
Thank you!
No thank you! Appreciate your support.
Nice video really
Thank you for your comment and support
I got the same error as you how do I go forward
Can you give more information?
@@BinaryTechLabs I got it in the end, I was trying to install from a url then I swapped it to file and it worked first time
Happy to hear you got it working
cool!
I thought so too!
Too much presumption of knowledge for a newbie like me.
What are you struggling with, perhaps we can help you