The wizard keeps waiting

What you see: step 2 of the first run says "Waiting for this box to finish starting", and stays there.

Why

The password lives in LosOS cloud, so it cannot be set until LosOS cloud has installed itself, which it does on the box's first start. On a mini-PC that takes two to five minutes; in an emulated VM without hardware acceleration it can take fifteen. The page checks every few seconds and continues on its own.

What to do

1. Wait ten minutes before anything else. Open http://<address>/api/setup/claim in another tab: "ready": false with a waitingFor field says what it is waiting for.
2. After fifteen minutes, restart the box (pull the power) and reopen the wizard. LosOS cloud's first start is restartable.
3. A box that never gets there after a restart usually has no working network at the moment it needs to fetch nothing (everything is on the box) but a full disk or a failed install. Check the Storage pane if the admin pages open, otherwise reinstall.

A known bug

Take 9 of the demo (6 October 2026) found the panel staying on "starting" after LosOS cloud was in fact ready. That is pull request #62. If you reload the page and it goes straight on, you hit it.