ubuntu miserably ancient computer, etc | Home Assistant | Page 1

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 1:38 PM

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did you follow an install guide, and if so which one?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 1:39 PM

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yes, this guide https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/generic-x86-64

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i tryed this 2 methods but none worked

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 1:46 PM

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have you ever done this sort of thing before?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 1:48 PM

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boot a new system ? yes of course

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 2:02 PM

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no, use a live usb distro to then write an image over the installed hard drive

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 2:06 PM

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no never

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 2:12 PM

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do you know much about running ubuntu?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 2:14 PM

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yes a little

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 2:16 PM

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my first attempt would be to go through all of the steps again. sometimes computers just hate us, or we miss something, or whatever. if it still doesn't boot after that, try checking that it is bootable and that the bios is telling it to try that drive

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have you run HA at all before? I guess that's a decent question too

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 2:18 PM

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no never it the first time, do you recommend method 1 or method 2 ?

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 2:20 PM

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method 1

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just as the guide does

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:19 PM

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my pc never boots in the new system

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:19 PM

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you HAVE to give us more than that to help you

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what have you tried? what does it actually do?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:22 PM

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umbral panther what have you tried? what does it actually do?

I tried to install the os from ubuntu as explained in method 1 and then after I tried with balena etcher ect as in method 2. Finally it gives the same thing, white "_" flashing on a black background

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:24 PM

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did the computer boot from something installed to that disk before this?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:25 PM

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yes this morning there was linux mint

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but in fact I wonder if it is not related to UEFI

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:27 PM

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it does say that you need that in the instructions

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UEFI enabled and secure boot disabled

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:29 PM

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I think my pc is too old for uefi

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:30 PM

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that's pretty old

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but it is specified in those instructions in the blue note section at the beginning and then again right below that

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:34 PM

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it's this one https://www.portables.org/ordinateur-portable-quotidien/5528-dell-latitude-e5500.html

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:34 PM

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wow.

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so a little less powerful than a raspberry pi 3

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and like 16 years old?

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:37 PM

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yes it was just to test home assistant before perhaps buying a rasbery

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:38 PM

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I probably wouldn't buy a raspberry if I were you

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a 6th or 7th gen i5 with 8gb in a SFF case is about the same price and twice as powerful as a pi4 with 8gb, a case, a way to boot it, and a power supply. by which I mean around 100 bucks. it can't handle transcoding video or anything with video codecs, but neither can the pi

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whatever you're getting online with can certainly run a VM and you can try it that way.

odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:42 PM

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OK but no solutions?

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for my splendid pc 😂

umbral panther Jun 17, 2024, 5:43 PM

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it requires UEFI

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send that off to the recyclers

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odd stirrup Jun 17, 2024, 5:44 PM

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This tutorial wouldn't work either?

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