Pi broken ? Boots incredibly slow / freezes on boot
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:34 pm
Hi there,
I got my Pi working with Raspbian on one SD-Card and the Raspbmc on another one (both installed via NOOBS).
Both of them were working perfectly fine
(at least booting) till yesterday.
I had the Raspbmc running and wanted to start the Raspbian, so I chose 'shutdown' from the menu, then unplugged the power-supply, switched the SD-Cards and plugged the power back in.
Now there was no coloured screen at the beginning, immidiately there is the Raspberry Logo/'hold shift for recovery' screen.
I can't enter the recovery mode or do anything, after quite a while (~2-3 min) this screen disappears and the Pi seems to finally boot up, but when showing all the stuff that is initialised, it takes quite some seconds for every single line, and I get a lot of errors at the end of the lines.
When I saw this, I thought, that maybe the card was broken, so I unplugged the power again and switched back to the other card (Raspbmc), which was running perfectly just moments ago.
I had the same initial problem (no coloured screen, but 'shift for recovery' screen for a long time, then after about three times the usual time, Raspbmc starts, but I get errors on all the scripts.
Did I manage to break my Pi?
Its kinda weird to me, because it was working just moments before, and I even shut it down via Software and unplugged it to change cards, but both are not working any more...
I opened my casing and it seemed to me like there was a strange smell, but I am not really sure about that and I could not find anything looking obviously broken.
Does anyone know what to do or did I miss to give any details ?
Thanks for any help,
Pilicious
I got my Pi working with Raspbian on one SD-Card and the Raspbmc on another one (both installed via NOOBS).
Both of them were working perfectly fine
(at least booting) till yesterday.I had the Raspbmc running and wanted to start the Raspbian, so I chose 'shutdown' from the menu, then unplugged the power-supply, switched the SD-Cards and plugged the power back in.
Now there was no coloured screen at the beginning, immidiately there is the Raspberry Logo/'hold shift for recovery' screen.
I can't enter the recovery mode or do anything, after quite a while (~2-3 min) this screen disappears and the Pi seems to finally boot up, but when showing all the stuff that is initialised, it takes quite some seconds for every single line, and I get a lot of errors at the end of the lines.
When I saw this, I thought, that maybe the card was broken, so I unplugged the power again and switched back to the other card (Raspbmc), which was running perfectly just moments ago.
I had the same initial problem (no coloured screen, but 'shift for recovery' screen for a long time, then after about three times the usual time, Raspbmc starts, but I get errors on all the scripts.
Did I manage to break my Pi?
Its kinda weird to me, because it was working just moments before, and I even shut it down via Software and unplugged it to change cards, but both are not working any more...
I opened my casing and it seemed to me like there was a strange smell, but I am not really sure about that and I could not find anything looking obviously broken.
Does anyone know what to do or did I miss to give any details ?
Thanks for any help,
Pilicious