WaveShare lcd

[hampshire1]

Hi, just got a waveshare spot pear lcd for my new Pi 3. It came with a cd image file which I put on sd card. Put the screen on Pi and the screen stays white. The red light in Pi is on but no green. I tried it on my Pi 2 and it works so can't be a broken screen.
Any ideas please
Thanks

[topguy]

You probably need to update the firmware and kernel before it will boot on Rpi3.
If the image is based on Raspbian you might be able to fix it with "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade".

If not, put WaveShare into the search box in the top right corner.

[hampshire1]

Thanks for reply. Any idea where I can get a walk through on the steps you suggest. Complete novice here. Thanks

[DirkS]

Thanks for reply. Any idea where I can get a walk through on the steps you suggest. Complete novice here. Thanks

Put the card in the Pi2 and run

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

from the command line, then use the card in the Pi3B...
and hope Waveshare did not block updates to the raspberrypi-bootloader package