I just received my RP board. I downloaded the 2012-08-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip version, used the Win32DiskImager to create the image on a Class 4 SD Card that was on the recommended list. The very first time I was able to get the RP to boot up and was able to plug in the HDMI, and keyboard and mouse. But that was it. After I tried the next day I have not been able to get my RP to boot up anymore. The Red LED lights up and the Green one seems to flicker. Can't determine any pattern to see what might be wrong. Nothing displays up on the monitor. I've tried to reflash several times and used the SD reformatter as well. I've tried a number of other SD cards as well, but still experiencing the same issue.
Hope someone can help. Any suggestions? Can I look on the SD card and see any log files that might tell me what my issue might be. Was I suppose to shutdown properly. Said I wasn't root and couldn't sudo to it via pi login.
Any help would be appreciated.
Re: Issue Getting RP to Boot - Booted one time but not after
It sounds like the Pi is booting, at least partially. Did you try a different monitor? Different video output? Please report back with any more details.
Re: Issue Getting RP to Boot - Booted one time but not after
Also look at http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 26&t=13672. Not sure if you updated anything?
Re: Issue Getting RP to Boot - Booted one time but not after
Thanks for your help. I tried using an RCA Video instead of HDMI and it works with that. Why it worked once with HDMI and now does not, I'm not sure. Will need to do some further research on using HDMI. I had messed around with some of the keyboard settings, but not much else. I also re-imaged as well after I ran into issues.
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Re: Issue Getting RP to Boot - Booted one time but not after
There are specific fixes in the config.txt file for some of these issues on raspian so try reading parameters in the /boot/config.txt and try uncommenting the ones that seem to apply the first one
"hdmi_force_hotplug=1"
"config_hdmi_boost=4" (this one is near the bottom or end as it may be) had to use this one an an older monitor to get it to boot when the Raspi started and this might be a good start before the others and all of them should be in the /boot/config.txt.
"sudo nano /boot/config.txt" from the console and uncomment them one at a time till you get it to work.
Hope one of these helps.
"hdmi_force_hotplug=1"
"config_hdmi_boost=4" (this one is near the bottom or end as it may be) had to use this one an an older monitor to get it to boot when the Raspi started and this might be a good start before the others and all of them should be in the /boot/config.txt.
"sudo nano /boot/config.txt" from the console and uncomment them one at a time till you get it to work.
Hope one of these helps.
If you are more worried about ,spelling, punctuation or grammar you have probably already missed the point so please just move on.
Re: Issue Getting RP to Boot - Booted one time but not after
Thanks for the suggestion. I did figure this out before I saw your posting.
I looked through the config.txt and took a guess at which one might resolve my issue. It turned out to be (hdmi_force_hotplug=1).
Still strange why the very first time I booted up my monitor worked and then not any other time until I changed this setting. Now to spend some time tinkering around and coming up with possibilities with this device.
I looked through the config.txt and took a guess at which one might resolve my issue. It turned out to be (hdmi_force_hotplug=1).
Still strange why the very first time I booted up my monitor worked and then not any other time until I changed this setting. Now to spend some time tinkering around and coming up with possibilities with this device.