Hi

Thank you everyone for all your help. With a mix of the suggestions added to this thread, I now have my sons pi back up and running

THANK YOU

Hi "fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0" ran with the following msg on the screen " .... 4 heads 16 cylinders of 64*512 ...... Partition 1 doesn't end on cylinder boundary .... Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary .... fstack used greatest stack depth : 5580 bytes left" I then ran "fsck /dev/mmcblk0p1" w...

the 'df' command does return with filesystem details and 'Mounted on .... /boot' If I keep the re-imaging the SD card as my back up plan, is there a simpler work around I can use to get out of safe mode? A previous comment on the forum suggested adding a line or 2 to my 'init' (if I recall correctly...

Hi I don't get a prompt, the cursor just sits on the next line after the "[ 4.1782691] usb 1-1.3:Serial Number : 1.0] line. This is the last line that gets rendered to the screen on bootup. Yesterday, the bootup was getting one line further which is the line stated in the original post. From the pro...

Hi

I think the OS is raspbian. I cheated and bought a pi package with the OS already installed!!!

When the pi stops on its boot up, I can enter basic cmd lines but my unix is rusty so I'm struggling to recall how to work my way around to get the info I need to get a solution

Hi

Pi won't start

The last line displaying on boot up is "mdev used greatest stack depth : 5524 bytes left"

Any ideas / help will be much appreciated