I just wanted to post this info and see what others have observed.
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 B with 8GB. I configured it to boot off a 1TB M.2 NVME SSD about a year and half ago. I ran it headless and used Windows RDP to access it. The SSD was connected via USB and is hosted by a Suptronics X873 board. Everything worked great and the Pi always booted.
Fast forward to about two weeks ago. I upgraded to a 2TB SSD (1TB getting full fast), installing Raspbian instead of Ubuntu. I use this as a Plex Media Server and from all that I read, Plex is faster on Raspbian than Ubuntu. Still a headless Pi but I had to switch to VNC to access it. All seemed great until this past weekend.,,
I rebooted the Pi after a config change. All of a sudden the bootloader went nuts. Sometimes I would let the Pi sit and eventually the bootloader would find the SSD and up came the OS. Often it would just search ad nauseam and never load the OS. Occasionally I would reboot and the bootloader would find the SSD right away and load the OS. Suffice it to say that this whole process was a painful crapshoot and I could make no sense of it.
I went with assumption that the bootloader was somehow garbled , so I updated it. No luck - same situation. I even thought that perhaps the Suptronics firmware update I applied last year may have gotten whacked, so I reapplied that as well. No change.
Then a little, lost voice deep within my brain, the one from my ancient "professional" IT days (now I'm just a hobbyist), welled up unexpectedly. "Reseat the SSD" it said. "BAH, nonsense, I thought."
Yeah, you know where this is going. I removed the little set screw and reseated the SSD. Now it works fine (again). I have rebooted the friggin' thing about 15 times now. Every time it comes back up, no problem.
Can anyone shed light or corroborate on this bizarre behavior? I am beside myself. Baffled. I'm happy to have my Plex server back but have this uneasy feeling that witchcraft and ghosts are afoot. I don't like the feeling one bit...
Thoughts or personal experiences, anyone?
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 B with 8GB. I configured it to boot off a 1TB M.2 NVME SSD about a year and half ago. I ran it headless and used Windows RDP to access it. The SSD was connected via USB and is hosted by a Suptronics X873 board. Everything worked great and the Pi always booted.
Fast forward to about two weeks ago. I upgraded to a 2TB SSD (1TB getting full fast), installing Raspbian instead of Ubuntu. I use this as a Plex Media Server and from all that I read, Plex is faster on Raspbian than Ubuntu. Still a headless Pi but I had to switch to VNC to access it. All seemed great until this past weekend.,,
I rebooted the Pi after a config change. All of a sudden the bootloader went nuts. Sometimes I would let the Pi sit and eventually the bootloader would find the SSD and up came the OS. Often it would just search ad nauseam and never load the OS. Occasionally I would reboot and the bootloader would find the SSD right away and load the OS. Suffice it to say that this whole process was a painful crapshoot and I could make no sense of it.
I went with assumption that the bootloader was somehow garbled , so I updated it. No luck - same situation. I even thought that perhaps the Suptronics firmware update I applied last year may have gotten whacked, so I reapplied that as well. No change.
Then a little, lost voice deep within my brain, the one from my ancient "professional" IT days (now I'm just a hobbyist), welled up unexpectedly. "Reseat the SSD" it said. "BAH, nonsense, I thought."
Yeah, you know where this is going. I removed the little set screw and reseated the SSD. Now it works fine (again). I have rebooted the friggin' thing about 15 times now. Every time it comes back up, no problem.
Can anyone shed light or corroborate on this bizarre behavior? I am beside myself. Baffled. I'm happy to have my Plex server back but have this uneasy feeling that witchcraft and ghosts are afoot. I don't like the feeling one bit...
Thoughts or personal experiences, anyone?
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