good find, works fine now thanks.

Only problem now is keyboard not working but the link also explains that.

Thanks again

I used a class 6 generic 4GB card.
I also have a class 4 sandisk 8GB card, both of which worked fine with debian and arch.

I used the USB image tool as instructed. everything seemed fine until the pi needed to restart then all I got was the colour spectrum screen

The card is fine as it was used previously for another distro which booted OK.

I'm guessing something went wrong while restoring the image to card. will ahve another go in the morning.

I have just flashed a card with xbmc and all I get is a full colour spectrum on boot with a red LED on the board. Have I done something wrong?