Yes, it does. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Thanks to everyone with tips and suggestions, and good luck to any others having the issue I was having. I wasted a whole day trying to make it work, but I'm returning everything tomorrow.
What exactly is looping?
Others were reporting the screen in your photo was stuck on screen and the bottom text kept repeating.
Has anyone figured this out yet? I am having the exact same issue. I have a Pi 400, a brand new WD 2Tb usb drive and it will not boot.
I used Imager v1.6.2 on my PC, wrote the âboot to usbâ file to a brand new SD card, boot up my Pi 400 with the that card in it and got the green screen like I was supposed to. So far so good. Used the imager again and wrote the custom ChannelsDVRServer_PI4.img.gz image to the new WD drive, plug it into the Pi, restart andâŚnothing. It keeps going into a loop and never boots to the usb drive. I just get that same screen as posted above and never goes any further.
Mike
One thing that I tried, that resolved my issues with Channels DVR on Raspberry Pi4, with external USB drive boot... I added a powered USB hub in between the Raspberry Pi4 and the external USB drive. This resolved my issue, and it has been running work over a week solid now, with no glitches.
This. And just because it works for someone else, don't think because they're lucky/special, you are too. If you're using an external drive with a Piâany Piâyour drive needs an external power supply. Sure, it sometimes works. But the power distribution in the Pi is a joke. You can power a HAT, keyboard, or some other minimal device from the Pi. But a real device, like a hard drive, it must have its own separate power supply.
If your drive does not have its own supplyâeven if it's not the boot driveâthen stop. Don't post about your issue or ask for support. Instead, make sure it has its own power supply; and only after doing that, then you can post for support.
But online community support cannot serve as a substitute for poor/faulty hardware that was always going to be the weak point/fail.
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I guess itâs my fault for trusting the very people who recommended the PiâŚ
âThe new [Raspberry Pi 4] makes for a great Channels DVR Server. We have built a custom image that lets you flash it directly onto your USB 3.0 hard drive and get set up with Channels DVR server in minutes.â
I even bought the WD 2Tb drive from the link on that same getchannels web page. If it doesnât work or if it needed âextra hardwareâ. donât you think they should have said so? Iâm not a Pi expert, just looking for a better solution to what I already have. So donât go attacking me for asking for support. Who needs people like you in the âcommunityâ if you donât want to help or chastise people who post about something you think they should know. Iâll figure it out for myself.
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If that is the drive they recommend and it does not work they should update their docs to say a self powered drive is recommended. These bus/usb powered drives are meant for storage ... not for 24x7 read write.
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Mine worked great from the beginning, for about a month, and then stopped working. It would stay up for an hour or so, each time I rebooted, after that. Same for after I wiped it and re-flashed the drive. I'm not sure why, after a month, it would only work with a powered usb hub, but that is what is now working for me.
I'm also hitting this same problem. CanaKit 4GB Raspberry Pi Kit with the supplied 5.1V 3.5A PSU (only thing I could find in stock). Case is a FLIRC as recommended. Have tried both the Blue and Black USB ports. Blue loops after ~30 seconds and black after ~35.
I am getting the same MSD errors then the same final text as in DavidRemus' photo from 8/9 before the hard drive turns off and the boot loop starts over again.
I am using a 3TB Toshiba Canvio Basics portable drive that I had lying around for this (freshly formatted with Pi Imager). As above it is a compact bus powered drive labeled 5V 1A on the bottom. It seems to work fine if I boot the Pi from uSD into Raspian instead (uSD is currently removed, if installed the loop is avoided and after these errors it fails back and boots Raspian).
This little drive and the Pi is really what I would like to use. I'm trying to migrate channels from a 8 bay Ivy Bridge server that I honestly don't like running 24x7 (60w at Idle) and want to go with a more embedded option that uses 5-10w. Are they any recommended inline power adapters that would let me power this HDD externally and get it working with the Raspberry Pi?
I am working on an updated firmware with fix for this. It should be ready tomorrow.
What is the actual hardware revision of the board you are using. As has been previously mentioned, there was a minor chipset change with new production boards that may be affecting this image.
Where would I find the hardware revision printed? I physically picked it up from Best Buy this afternoon after ordering it last week so I would assume a pretty recent stock. The numbers I see on the top right of the back of the board are R-C-P2R-RPI4B.
tmm1 you are AWESOME. Will check back in a few days!
For kicks I also tried a decade old 320GB USB-2.0 bus powered drive. That powered off and went to a reboot loop in maybe three seconds. Didn't even see text pop up on the HDMI out.
Also went down the Raspberry Pi research black hole. Looks like lots of sketchy performance with powered hubs so I think I'd prefer to avoid those if I can.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=258242&start=50
Check what it says on the boot screen with no SD/USB attached, next to "board: "
board: c03114 213aa408 e4:5f:01:30:6d:7a
boot: mode USB-MSD 4 order f14 retry 0/128 restart 3/-1
That is with only a USB-C and Micro-HDMI attached
See this post:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-4-model-bs-arriving-newer-c0-stepping
That BOOTED!!! I am now showing a page ChannelsDVR with a last line of "Reached target Multi-User System".
I did now hit a different (and I assume more minor snag). When I go to the dvr-server:8089/welcome page and try to Log In I get "The redirect uri included is not valid.". Suggestions on how I should clear that?
Also to transfer my existing recordings you mention Samba. Would it also be possible to turn the Pi off, hook this USB drive up to my existing server, and copy all the recordings and most recent DB over locally? Then boot up the Pi and restore? That might be a little faster if it works.
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Try with the IP of the Pi instead?
Yes you can add files to the usb drive after the first boot completes and the drive is initialized.
I was able to get in with dvr-server.local:8089. That put me on the admin page and it is now downloading guide data to the /media/DVR folder.
Second question still active. Can I just plug the drive in my old Ivy Bridge server and copy the files to the the /media/DVR directory straight up or do I need Samba?
Also, thanks for the insanely fast response on this. Wasn't expecting that.