Folks
I have instralled HA on a micro SD on a R PI 3b+. All worked fine so far.
But I powered off and on again and it has been stuck in a reboot loop.
The text on the screen scrolls too fast, and I can’t make any thing of what is going wrong. For once it booted to HA and when I rebooted, it is again stuck in a loop.
Who do I know what is going wrong? Where do I start?
It’s probably time to move to something else rather than an RPI 3 as not enough memory to run much and each update it will likely have gotten worse. SD cards also not great as all the writing wears them out. I would suggest solid state hard drive.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have had HA running on SD Card for more than 2 years earlier. This is a brand new 3b+. It has 128 GB SD card. And it was working. Not sure what caused the boot loop.
I want to understand what happened. How I can I pause and examine the output HA is spewing out?
HA is just going in a loop and not giving any idea of what is wrong or why it’s rebooting.
Any ideas on how I can debug this further? Any tips on examining the HA output?
Record a video with your phone, but memory issue is a good bet.
So I took video and looked at it.
It is getting to HassOs Configuration Manaer
Permit user sessions,
…
and then reboots
What is interesting is if I leave it alone for a few mins it will eventually boot to HA,
Also note that this is a brand new HA installation, I have NOTHING in HA other than the AdGuard Addon
So still baffled at could be going on
Is there a log to dig deeper? Where would I see this boot log?
It looks like it can’t start the user sessions up.
But why it fails I do not know.
I think I would retry the installation from scratch again and make sure it is done with a new downloaded image too.
I can do a clean install.
But …since I got here, I might as well understand why the user sessions are not stated. Is there an extended debug log? Like a verbose log? Is there a way to see what is going on?
It would be educationa I am sure.
I do not really know.
Normally when the image is downloaded it will either start in normal mode or safe mode.
Solved
This is due to power issue. I was using some USB micro plug and cable and it looks like it is 5v 2000mA. I switched to the power cord that I ordered from Amazon along with the case and now it boots great.
