New Pis not booting

[stevenh]

Hi,
I bought a pi to test if it'll work in our environment and fit our requirements and it worked great.
So I bought 3 more.
The new 3, I can't get them to boot - I have a few different OSs on SD cards and none of them seem to work in the new ones, only the old one.
The only 2 noticeable differences I can see are that the old one has an "e1" below and to the left of the raspberry logo, which is missing on the other 3. and the new ones have "hanrun" and what looks like a model number on top of the NIC - the old one doesn't/

What happens on the new ones is that when it gets power, the red light comes on that the green ACT light flashes for a split second and then never comes back on again. Nothing shows on the HDMI screen at all.

If I start it up with the SD card removed, it the red power light shines, and the green ACT light holds a very dull glow.

All the SD cards (some I wrote and some I bought pre-loaded) work in the old one, but none in the new ones.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z179oxh2uxex9 ... .20.08.jpg

[drgeoff]

Probably www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3534 is relevant.

[symonmj]

Agree with drgeoff. Easy fix if so.

MS

[stevenh]

Perfect!
The new OS runs on them.
I am surprised the cards that were shipped with them didn't work on them. But anyway. They boot now
Now the problem is, I've set up all my auto-boot stuff on the older OS - I was planning on just cloning the card for all the new ones.
Is there a way I can make this work?
Thanks
Steve

[drgeoff]

Yes, copying (overwriting) the start.elf and bootcode.bin (in /boot or the FAT partition) from the latest OS is said to work. Haven't actually tried it myself as still on 256 Mbyte RPis.

[drgeoff]

I am surprised the cards that were shipped with them didn't work on them.

Indeed. "left hand", "right hand" and "doing" are among the words that come to mind!

[elvisimprsntr]

http://www.megaleecher.net/Fix_Raspberry_Pi_Boot

[stevenh]

Thanks so much for all the help!
everything's 100%
Steve

[toutain]

I had the same problem as the OP. Tried many different OSs with many different versions (including the newest) and none would boot. In the end it copied BerryBoot (http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot) files to the SD disk and it booted! The card was fine after all! From there I was able to download the latest Raspbian. Now it seems to work fine (I'm currently configuring the OS)