ShiftPlusOne wrote:This could happen if you have yanked the power out of the pi during first boot, while the ssh host keys are being generated.
yes, thanks! that might explain it then!
guess a bit of messing to auto recover on next boot if initial boot script not registered as successful by contents/prescence of some file (perhaps simply dont delete/create whatever triggers the first boot script until it is completely successful perhaps? so it will run on subsequent reboots until it has run correctly...)
anyway this forum is a great resource!
I should have added a ? at the end of the title of the post LOL
is it true that the zero had slowed down to 700mhz, was that in the 20170302 edition, it now also auto resizes partition on reboot, and I guess an unplug during that could be nasty, myself I would rather do that partition resize manually so I know it may take a while, and would allow a dd to be taken of the sd after some customisation without having a huge partition on a 16gb sd card.
now first boot job is slow and as I was setting it up headless (then had to waste time setting up connected to a terminal) I was expecting ssh to become available much sooner having already got a pi zero before this one and observed how fast 1ghz boot was....