Using ChatGPT I finally fought this and won. The gist was using another proxmox linux vm, attach the drive, mount /dev/sdb1, edit the grub file in /mnt/haos_boot/EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg set the timeout=0 The only thing I can think might have caused this, is when I changed the memory size or disk size… Answer from zimmer62 on community.home-assistant.io
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Grub config on hassoss - Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community
February 16, 2023 - I’m trying to get rid of the A/B boot options from grub. The B option can’t boot so i dont want it to be tried at all anymore tried to edit the grub.cfg, but it’s not helping. Grub commands dont seem to be present on t…
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Home Assistant
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Boot and GRUB - Installation - Home Assistant Community
December 30, 2022 - Hello, totally beginner here. I have installed Home Assistent OS on Intel NUC ATKC4. I have used Samsung 980 M2 SSD drive for that, flashed with Balena etcher etc. Everything is pretty much working just OK, the only un…
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GNU GRUB error on boot up
I have Home Assistant running within an Oracle VM and recently upgraded. Since the upgrade, I am getting the GNU GRUB screen on boot up If I go to the command prompt, and do an ‘ls’, I get the following: I have seen other posts with the same issue, but no resolutions. any advice? More on community.home-assistant.io
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Restore home assistant from GNU GRUB
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Upgrading home assistant or reboot always get stuck on GRUB screen
This started a long time ago, but every time I reboot the OS, or upgrade the OS version, I end up getting stuck on a GRUB screen and have to make a selection. This time I had to select Slot B in order to it booted up to OS 9.2 I went to the command shell and looked at the environment an it’s ... More on community.home-assistant.io
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Stuck on GNU GRUB on boot
Hi, Last time I rebooted my Home assistant OS (which I do around once/wk) it now gets stuck on this screen and I can’t move forward. I have no idea about GNU GRUB but googled “ls”, which gives the list on screen. I am unable to get anywhere further. It is an Intel PC with Home assistant OS More on community.home-assistant.io
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Ask Ubuntu
askubuntu.com › questions › 1438168 › stuck-at-grub-command-line-gnu-grub-version-2-06-3deb11u2
boot - Stuck at GRUB command line - GNU GRUB version 2.06-3~deb11u2 - Ask Ubuntu
October 30, 2022 - Arrow down to Power-On Password, hit Enter (brought up Set Power On Password), Hit Enter 3 times (taking me back to Security) 5.) System Configuration: selected Language (hit Enter on English, then Enter again taking me back to System Configuration) 6.) Same process as above with Virtualization Technology (disabled), Fan Always on, Action Keys Mode (enabled) 7.)Picture of where changes were madeThen when I select Boot options I NOW have the ability to change UEFI boot order, etc. (before there were only 3 options under boot options) ... Load HP Factory Default Keys 8.) Don't know if this is the correct / safe way to work around the “Stuck at GRUB command line - GNU GRUB” problem but now I'm able to shut down/restart with no hangups.
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GNU GRUB error on boot up - Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community
February 24, 2023 - I have Home Assistant running within an Oracle VM and recently upgraded. Since the upgrade, I am getting the GNU GRUB screen on boot up If I go to the command prompt, and do an ‘ls’, I get the following: I have se…
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Home Assistant
community.home-assistant.io › configuration
Install HA on old laptop without UEFI - #60 by lpt2007 - Configuration - Home Assistant Community
April 23, 2023 - I figuret out how to do this proces manualy. I run ha os from slot a when ha os is up and runing i ran command: ha os update from cli when update complete ha os goes to restart when pc starts I first boot to some linux and mount sda1 with command: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt then I edit /efi/boot/grub.cfg with command nano /mnt/efi/boot/grub.cfg end I changed default=99 to default=1 to get more time to select slot b then umount mounted sda1 with command umount /mnt type reboot to restart pc on syst...
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Reddit
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r/homeassistant on Reddit: Restore home assistant from GNU GRUB
August 3, 2023 -

Hi. I updated ha os to 10.4 and now i don't have WIFI or LAN connection, so i can't revert to 9.5 If i select 'Slot A (OK=1 TRY=0)" it boots (in last known good boot?). But if machine restarts it boots in "Slot B" again. What should i do?

Running HA OS on mini pc.

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Stuck on GNU GRUB on boot - Installation - Home Assistant Community
December 9, 2023 - Hi, Last time I rebooted my Home assistant OS (which I do around once/wk) it now gets stuck on this screen and I can’t move forward. I have no idea about GNU GRUB but googled “ls”, which gives the list on screen. I am u…
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HA occasionally halts to GNU GRUB menu - Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community
November 29, 2022 - Every couple of days, I find my haos halted on GNU GRUB screen with following options. *Slot A (OK=1 TRY=1) Slot B (OK=0 TRY 0) Slot A (rescue shell) Slo B (rescue shell) I have to hit ENTER to boot. What is happeni…
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Proxmox
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HomeAssistant: Booting 'Slot A (OK=1 TRY=1)' | Proxmox Support Forum
March 16, 2023 - #/boot/grub/grub.cfg # so war es zuerst GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt" # so ist es jetzt, brachte keine Veränderung GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on iommu=pt nofb nomodeset textonly video=vesafb:off initcall_blacklist=sysfb_init" ... # cat /etc/pve/qemu-server/103.conf ## Home Assistant OS #### https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox #[![ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/D1D7EP4GF) agent: 1 bios: ovmf boot: order=scsi0 cores: 4 efidisk0: local-lvm:vm-103-disk-0,size=4M hostpci0: 0000:00:02 localtime: 1 machine: q35 memory
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GitHub
github.com › home-assistant › operating-system › issues › 3305
GRUB failing to load kernel on Intel Atom boards (Intel NM10 chipset) · Issue #3305 · home-assistant/operating-system
April 12, 2024 - I see GNU GRUB with 4 options - Slot A, Slot B, Slot A rescue shell, Slot B rescue shell. Selecting any of them results in a message that it's unable to boot. I dont get any CLI options. I have used Linux Reader to download the backups from the disk and have then tried to do a fresh installation with OS12.2.
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Chapter 26. Working with GRUB 2 | System Administrator’s Guide | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7 | Red Hat Documentation
Enter the exit command again to resume the initialization and finish the system boot. ... Start the system and, on the GRUB 2 boot screen, press the e key for edit. Remove the rhgb and quiet parameters from the end, or near the end, of the linux16 line, or linuxefi on UEFI systems. Press Ctrl+a and Ctrl+e to jump to the start and end of the line, respectively. On some systems, Home and End might also work.
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reddit.com › r/homeassistant › you don't need uefi to install haos. here's a simple guide to cover how it's done.
r/homeassistant on Reddit: You don't need UEFI to install HAOS. Here's a simple guide to cover how it's done.
June 3, 2024 -

First of all, credit to these two folks: (thread 1) (thread 2)

I spent too much time trying to figure out how to get this done, and in the end it takes very little to do it.

It also includes instructions at the end that can address the issue on any install that is not booting to the latest OS after an update. Anyway, I hope this is helpful!

NOTE: This was written by me, for me. So key presses or hardware may vary in your use case!

Here's the stuff from above for copying/pasting

LINK referenced early in image.

Code from above:

sudo mount /dev/sda9 /mnt
sudo apt install grub2
sudo grub-install --compress=xz --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda --force
cat <<! | sudo dd of=/mnt/boot/grub/grub.cfg
set root=(hd0,1)
configfile /efi/boot/grub.cfg
!

grub.cfg changes:

load_env --file (hd0,gpt1)/efi/boot/grubenv
save_env --file (hd0,gpt1)/efi/boot/grubenv A_TRY A_OK B_TRY B_OK ORDER MACHINE_ID
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Home Assistant
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Installing Home Assistant Supervised on a Raspberry Pi using Debian 12 - #573 by kanga_who - Community Guides - Home Assistant Community
April 6, 2022 - Installing Home Assistant Supervised on a Raspberry Pi using Debian 12 :stop_sign: Before proceeding, please read the following information :stop_sign: It is being made increasing difficult to run a Supervised installati…
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Home Assistant
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Stuck on grub prompt after installing HAOS Supervisor? read this - Installation - Home Assistant Community
June 21, 2025 - I was installing HAOS on a Mini-PC which is one of those with Atom processor and uses an eMMC interface soldered to the motherboard. Mine is branded by BeeLink. I did try to boot the Ubuntu live USB, downloaded the image and wrote it to the /dev/mmcblk2 device using the procedure on HOme Assistant’s site, thru the disk utility that ships with the Ubuntu USB.
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OS 12.2 upgrade left HA on grub menu, unbootable - Installation - Home Assistant Community
April 11, 2024 - Hi, I’m using this section as I believe it’s the most appropriate I clicked to upgrade to the latest HAOS (12.2) about 30’ ago. Never came back up. On plugging a screen and keyboard, I saw it was stuck on the grub bo…
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Home Assistant
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Common tasks - Operating System - Home Assistant
This section will provide guides to some common tasks and information which you will need in order to run, maintain, and edit your Home Assistant OS system. For further details on any particular subject, make sure to refer to the documentation for specific apps (formerly known as add-ons) or ...
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Level1Techs
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Introducting remote-bootselect: a tool to remotely set grub's boot option - Linux - Level1Techs Forums
January 25, 2025 - I was tired of spamming F11 when I want to switch between Linux and Windows. I also wanted to be able to switch between Linux and Windows from home assistant. So, I developed a grub module and server daemon that can rem…
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Home Assistant
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HAOS Install on X86 fails with Grub prompt - Installation - Home Assistant Community
June 4, 2024 - Hi I tried to install HAOD on an oldish Intel NUC at the weekend, using the latest version from the site. I followed the instructions - fix bios to disable secure boot, make sure it’s UEFI. Boot with live Ubuntu on USB, download the ISO, copy to partition, reboot.