Power help

[jeff]

Hiya, I'm using a Palm Trio phone charger, and it seems to be working OK, but there's no green light, just a red light. I tried to troubleshoot but now it seems to me I need to ask a few questions.

1. Does my charger supply enough? It is 5 volts and 1 amp. If not, what do I need? I will not buy the Pi Hut's ridiculously priced power supply.
2. Does a Kindle 3's work? It is 5.5 volts.
FYI: Multimeter reading (with Palm Trio): 4.99

Thank you!

[JeremyF]

No green light = SD card not img'd correctly

[jeff]

No green light = SD card not img'd correctly

Ah. I see. Win32 Disk Imager isn't working for me though. The device is blank. Also, how would I use "dd"?

[Burngate]

Win32 Disk Imager isn't working for me though. The device is blank. Also, how would I use "dd"?

No idea about "dd". But Win32 disk imager can be picky about SD slots, or your machine's SD slot is picky about SD cards.

So get a USB-SDcard dongle, and try that

[drgeoff]

No green light = SD card not img'd correctly

Ah. I see. Win32 Disk Imager isn't working for me though. The device is blank. Also, how would I use "dd"?

'dd' is a Linux command, not available in Windows.

Are you sure that your SD card reader slot supports SDHC cards?

[jeff]

No green light = SD card not img'd correctly

Ah. I see. Win32 Disk Imager isn't working for me though. The device is blank. Also, how would I use "dd"?

'dd' is a Linux command, not available in Windows.

Are you sure that your SD card reader slot supports SDHC cards?

I do realize "dd" is a bash Unix command (not Linux, get your facts right), because I also have a Mac, if that is needed. My card reader does support SDHC, but I don't know about Win32 Disk Imager...

[obcd]

There exist another windows program called winhex that should be able to create the sd card from the image as well. I am just unsure if the free version can work with raw img files. I know it can't create them. Google is your friend.

[pluggy]

I do realize "dd" is a bash Unix command (not Linux, get your facts right),

Whilst we're in uber pedant mode, "dd" isn't much to do with BASH either.

[jeff]

I do realize "dd" is a bash Unix command (not Linux, get your facts right),

Whilst we're in uber pedant mode, "dd" isn't much to do with BASH either.

Meh, mainly UNIX.

[jeff]

Alright, now my Raspberry Pi cannot find loader.bin. It's on the SD card. So, what should I do? Replace it with firmware from github?

[jeff]

Nvm, it works now, thanks!