I run LibeElec on a RPi 4 from a USB connected SSD drive.
Recently I have started seeing the remote OS install screen as below:
I'm running the latest nightly build LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-12.0-nightly-20240426-4513878
When I exit the above screen LibreElec boots as normal.
How can I diagnose the issue?
I was still getting the issue so switched back to running LibreELEC from an SD card and still have the popup.
popcornmix any ideas?
This isn't really my area, but I'd imagine a USB drive that was too slow to enumerate may sometimes fail to boot and move to the next stage in booting (which may end up at the network install screen).
That doesn't really tie in with it also happening with sdcard.
What do you have BOOT_ORDER set to?
Have you removed the USB drive when testing with sdcard?
When at the network boot screen, it says "Press ESC to cancel and go to diagnostics screen" who does diagnostic screen show?
(if keyboard is not connected on boot, I believe it goes directly to diagnostics screen).
Thank you for your help with this.
What do you have BOOT_ORDER set to?
Sorry no idea, how do I check?
Have you removed the USB drive when testing with sdcard?
Yes & vice versa.
The SD card was the one I used before moving over to SSD for dual boot, it worked fine without issue.
The SSD worked fine for months up until recently.
When at the network boot screen, it says "Press ESC to cancel and go to diagnostics screen" who does diagnostic screen show?
(if keyboard is not connected on boot, I believe it goes directly to diagnostics screen).
When I pressed escape the Pi rebooted & LibreELEC booted up fine, I never saw a diagnostic screen.
Sorry no idea, how do I check?
vcgencmd bootloader_config reads out the EEPROM. The line should looking like BOOT_ORDER=0xf14 or something like that and defines the devices that will be checked for a valid boot partition - beginning from the right !
This looks not right to me, you should add this line:
BOOT_ORDER=0xf14
QuoteTry USB first, followed by SD then repeat
To edit the EEPROM/bootloader config:
rpi-eeprom-config -e
Sorry, my mistake:
rpi-eeprom-config -e
You can also simply disable network install, run rpi-eeprom-config -e and add NET_INSTALL_ENABLED=0
see also here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/…INSTALL_ENABLED
so long,
Hias
I've asked the experts and the behaviour is surprising.
One possibility is the keyboard has a stuck shift key.
If you boot with shift key held down, you'll go straight to installer.
Do you still have the issue with keyboard disconnected? With a different keyboard?
Please remove all additional USB devices / dongle during the troubleshooting, since they could potentially react as HID (keyboard or interpreted as such).
I use OSMC-remotes on 4 Pi4 and 1 Pi5 without any problems, all of them boots from SSD.
