Booting from External USB Device or BootROM Unsupported Device

Tutorials & Guides
#1

libre-computer OS Tool (LOST) is a firmware designed to deploy operating system distributions quickly over the internet. Our newer boards have it built-in and it supports booting from all storage mediums (MicroSD, eMMC, USB, NVMe).

Boards with onboard LOST

  • AML-S805X-AC
  • ROC-RK3399-PC - cannot deploy yet

Boards without onboard LOST

  • ALL-H3-CC-H3
  • ALL-H3-CC-H5
  • AML-S905X-CC
  • ROC-RK3328-CC

These boards can still boot from non-native storage mediums by having a blank MicroSD or eMMC flashed with the bootloader. You can use the following tool to install board-specific bootloaders on a MicroSD card. Leave it plugged in your board and it will be able to boot from non=native storage mediums like USB.

Booting from usb
NVMe Boot ROC-RK3399-PC
#2

Should USB boot work without any modifications to usb image? I’ve tried HA image for rasp and Proxmox7 but they won’t even try to boot. Error message “Canno’t find valid erofs superblock”

#3

What board do you have? Raspberry Pi Raspbian images don’t work without running libretech-raspbian-portability first on the Raspberry Pi. If you’re just finding random images off the internet that might not be Raspbian or based on an old version of NOOBS, it most likely won’t work.

#4

Thanks for the fast reply!

I just bought the AML-S905X-CC for HomeAssistant. First problem was that, HA OS will not boot on this board. Is there any tricks to get HA OS to boot on Le Potato? This would solve all problems at once.

Other problems I’ve encountered:
-I’ve been debugging HA Supervised install now for 10 hours and I can’t get it to work on “libre-computer-aml-s905x-cc-debian-stretch-headless-mali-4.19.55” image (“Preparing Home Assistant” gets stuck on “[supervisor.plugins.base] Watchdog found audio plugin failed, restarting” and error [supervisor.utils.dbus] D-Bus method org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.call_get_all not exists!".

-I also tried to install KVM and VirtualBox to run HA OS in VM. But CPU doesn’t support KVM and atleast “ubuntu-22.04.1-preinstalled-desktop-arm64+aml-s905x-cc” image can’t install VirtualBox.

#5

The image you are using is obsolete and 3+ years old. It will be replaced soon. I recommend starting off with Ubuntu or Raspbian from our site. That’s why you’re probably spending a ton of time and not having anything work.

I also tried to install KVM and VirtualBox to run HA OS in VM. But CPU doesn’t support KVM and atleast “ubuntu-22.04.1-preinstalled-desktop-arm64+aml-s905x-cc” image can’t install VirtualBox.

HomeAssistant and Klipper are two OSes on our todo list. KVM should work on Ubuntu 22.04.1 and 20.04.5 images. If it doesn’t work, send us the logs and we will fix it.

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#6

What is the timetable with that HA in your todo list? Weeks or months?

KVM did work on raspbian, but CPU does not support virtualization:
“egrep -c ‘(vmx|svm)’ /proc/cpuinfo” outputs “0”. Quoting: " As long as it doesn’t return 0 , then you’re good" from HomeAssistant Community.

Next I will try to install Debian 11 with your instructions (Debian11/Debian12) and try HA supervised installation again (HA Supervised).

#7

  1. Depending on the complexity. We have a lot of engineering tasks mostly to support commercial customers. It could be weeks or months. Currently a lot of users have gotten those things to work by just following standard Ubuntu instructions.

  2. vmx and svm are x86 virtualization flags. They do not apply to ARM devices. Our kernel has virtualization enabled.

  3. Recommend trying with Ubuntu as Debian install is cumbersome right now. We will have Debian images released in weeks.

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#8

Thank you for all the help. Got HA Supervised working with ubuntu server 22.04 LTS image from USB. :partying_face:

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#9

Kindly share a guide when you have the time on your process. It may help others.

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#10
  1. SD-card boot image from LibreComputer (link above)
  • Not necessary, but enables USB SSD.
  1. Image: Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS (distro.libre.computer)
  • Unzip: tar -xf
  • Flash: I used balenaEtcher to flash USB stick.
  • User and pw: ubuntu
  • update+upgrade ofcourse.
  • install jq ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
  • apt --fix-broken install (some dependencies will be missing)
  • reboot
  1. Home Assistant Supervised
  • Follow this instruction (link)
  • OBS! For Docker install, follow their instructions: docs docker com/engine/install/ubuntu/ (add dots, new users can’t add more than 2 links)
  1. Configurating HA Supervised
  • Choose Raspberrypi4-64
  • Wait 5-10 minutes and you should see HomeAssistant preparing page in port 8123

That should be all. Enjoy!

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#11

I have HA running on a rk3328. Should also work on other Libre boards. I installed Libre Raspian Bullseye lite on the rk3328. Then followed the HA supervised install guide here. GitHub - home-assistant/supervised-installer: Installer for a generic Linux system

#12

Thanks for the great guide! However, you should post this as a new thread title so that people can find it. eg. “How to install HomeAssistant Supervised on USB”