RPI 4 keeps restarting
April 26, 2024, 21:44
I have been running RPI4 for a little over 3 years without an issue. I only have PI HOLE running on it. A couple of days ago it started to reboot itself over and over .. Any thoughts of what to do with it and fix it? I need to at least maybe recover the PI HOLE to important in some docker container
what do the logs say? let me find the filename for that
oop just got told you would need to turn on a specific feature which wouldnt work in our case
anyway, whats your power supply like? take a picture of the bottom
A constant running PiHole without turning of logging, I would guess the SD card has faulty cells.
It is an official power supply, I bought an official kit that included the board, power supply and SD card
just to be clear it does turn back on later?
You mean an SD issue? Will it boot normally if I pull thr SD out?
if you pull the boot device out it wont work
youd need a secondary boot device, i run my server pi from an SSD because its more relliable for this exact reason
I don't think I have an extra SD card
or usb would work
When I boot it as is, LED light will flash, green LED flshes twice then reboots
I think I have USB.. do I need to install something on it to test?
I just realised this is my RPI3, not 4
is it the B model or base pi 3?
B model
Then you can boot from usb
Its the Raspberry Pi 3B+ that can boot from USB by default, Raspberry Pi 3B needs to be programmed to do it.
So is it the + variant ?
Oh never mind
It is RPI 3B
Then you need to reprogram the OTP, check this out https://www.instructables.com/Booting-Raspberry-Pi-3-B-With-a-USB-Drive/
Thanks
But if this is the case, I lost the OS and I lost my PIHOLE anyway, right?
If I cannot recover my PIHOLE, I will just get a new SD card and do a new installation.. I customzed my PIHOLE to fit my local network needs but unfrotnately I never backed it up.. it used to just....work
The OTP programming gives you the ability to boot from USB and sometimes that can be beneficial.
And backups is the most common "I wish I had done that" that I ever see.
Unfortunately your server does need maintenance so it can't just work. Which is what your seeing the effects of. Your problem is probably because of bad SD card reliability
Yeah, it is a bummer