Wheezy not starting...

[ottoaari]

I wrote to somewhere about this already earlier, but do not find my post anymore. Anyway the advice at that moment was to download a new raspbian and give it a new try.

It won´t work.

I cannot even tell what is the problem because I a TOTAL neewbie. I do not know a word about programming. I just had an idea to get a silent surfboard connected to my Samsung-tv.

I am supposed to have done everything correctly as raspbian starts to install and a raspberry sign appears in the left corner of my tv.

(The tv will not recognize the Pi via HDMI, but only by analogue)

I have tried both usb-wired keyboard and with edgeDi Novo, which the Pi seems to recognize, ´cause pressing the enter "gives effect".

But won´t help ´cause I repeadetly get the same result when starting the machine. Shown in the picture. I am almost giving it up. I must have had an idea that this might be difficult, when I don´t even get started, I am getting too frustrated an will soon throw the whole Pi out of window and tell all my friends that it was a project not worth trying.

Spent almos 100 euros to Pi and equipments (Pi, case, 8 gt class 1 Kingston SD, hdmi-cable, powered usb hub and power supply). Of course I can use everything else but the Pi afterwords.

If there would be a reasonably easy solution, I will try anyway. Please give me hints. Here is my display:

[RaTTuS]

how did you write the image to the card
how BIg is the card
what type is the card
can you try another SD card

[ottoaari]

I did it with Win32diskimager.

My card is 8 gt Kingston formatted with windows class 10. Brand new.

If i want to try another card everytime this fails it comes quite an expensive pc though.

Of course I can go and buy an Asus series 9 ultrabook too, but with this I thought I might get a cheap silent surfboard attached to tv. Seems that I failed.

I might go and try to buy another card just for this one time, but...

[tonyhughes]

I wrote to somewhere about this already earlier, but do not find my post anymore. Anyway the advice at that moment was to download a new raspbian and give it a new try.

It won´t work.

What wont work? The download itself? Or you can download it but cant image it? Or you can image it and still get the same problem above?

[tonyhughes]

Your other post #1 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 79#p310179
Your other post #2 http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 06#p312806

[ottoaari]

Thank you for trying to help. Or helping in fact. I bought a new sd card and everything went well and i managed to boot!

I have my Pi running now.

I would humbly like to ask another question:

Can I just let be plugged and on all the time? Because there is not power-button and I do not even know how to "close" it without unplugging.

I did write exit and it wnt to log in mode (waiting fo me to enter user id and password), where I just left it yesterday.

I will get back with the display problem in another thread if I will not find an answer from the forum. My Samsung tv will not recognize the Pi via HDMI and the Pi will not get any info from tv via analogue. So there is some kind of overscan (??). The desktop will not fit to the screen.

Thank´s anyway so far.

[FTrevorGowen]

I would humbly like to ask another question:
Can I just let be plugged and on all the time? Because there is not power-button and I do not even know how to "close" it without unplugging.

If you're using the GUI desktop logout ("red button" icon, bottom right). Once back at the "command prompt" (black screen) type:
sudo shutdown -h now
(The -h means halt, if you use -r that's a restart/reboot instead)
Wait until the green led stops flashing (all data has been written to the SD card) and only the red power led is on (IIRC the network leds will be off) and ONLY then turn off (unplug) the power. If you just unplug and there is green led ACTivity your SD card may become corrupted.
Trev.

[ottoaari]

Thank´s Trevor

I wonder if there is somewhere a "newcomers list" for most used commands in Linux-world? As I see it a bit difficult to browse these forums again and again to get the command I just forgot.

Of course I should start studying myselfm but it wouldn´t harm if there was also a brief explanation of what the command "mean"?

Not everyone can be an expert in programming. Not everyone has time to study and learn this kind on new thing. Even though I also would like to learn the basics.

Anyway thank´s Trev