SD wont boot

[deadsource]

I apologise in advance, I'm a bit angry after coming home from hospital and having to toy around with my new RPi for 3 hours.

My SD wont boot. I installed the latest firmware and the green light didn't blink at all. I found some fix to bootcode.bin on the internet but then my RPi started blinking for three times and nothing changed. Anyone had an issue like this? Sorry if there's already a similar post to this, I'm still a bit woozy from my pills.

[Davespice]

It might be worth having a look through here; http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards
I know some SD cards just do not work and it's because of a voltage difference. You need an SD card that is okay with 3.3 volts, if I remember correctly, and some cards will only work with 1.2.

Also have a quick read of this if you want to double check that you're burning the SD card correctly;
http://blogs.arcsoftwareconsultancy.com ... h-windows/

[deadsource]

But wouldn't it have blinked at all if the voltage was incorrect? I'm a complete newb when it comes to SD...
I have this SD http://www.staples.co.uk/computers-driv ... -card-16gb
The voltage is between 2.7V and 3.6V so there shouldn't be a problem.

I was writing the image as it said in your url but I didn't get any green light at all. I'll try writing other OS tomorrow and inform you if that helped me.

Edit: should my TV display something at all if no SD is booted?
Edit2: I managed to boot up Arch Linux ARM. Why couldn't I boot up Raspbian “wheezy”? Neither Soft-float Debian, neither Hard-float works.
Edit3: I could also boot RISC OS. What's up with wheezy?

[FTrevorGowen]

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Edit: should my TV display something at all if no SD is booted?
Edit2: I managed to boot up Arch Linux ARM. Why couldn't I boot up Raspbian “wheezy”? Neither Soft-float Debian, neither Hard-float works.
Edit3: I could also boot RISC OS. What's up with wheezy?

1) Any TV display requires booting from an SD card
2)The default display if the OS fails to detect an HDMI display "quickly enough" is low-res AV via the yellow "RCA" connector.
3)If you're using HDMI you may need to have your TV switched to HDMI mode before powering up the Pi.
4) Feb. 2013 Wheezy is a bit "picky" about HDMI detection see these notes on the wiki:
http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... put_at_all (There are also other, similar, threads here in the forum)
Trev.

[deadsource]

The main problem now is that I can't boot wheezy at all... Arch Linux ARM and RISC OS work just fine.
Edit: even Raspbian Server Edition boots nicely. What the hell am I doing wrong?

[FTrevorGowen]

The main problem now is that I can't boot wheezy at all... Arch Linux ARM and RISC OS work just fine.
Edit: even Raspbian Server Edition boots nicely. What the hell am I doing wrong?

I'm not sure that "Wheezy" isn't booting - my previous comments were based on the possibility of "Wheezy" booting, but NOT giving you an HDMI display (esp. as other O.S.' were O.K.) . When using wheezy what's the behaviour of the LEDs? (See the wiki here at http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Troubleshooting# ... F_Start-up for expected/known sequences etc.)
Trev.

[deadsource]

The green led blinks only once when I plug in the power and that's all. With other OS the green led is blinking constantly. I'm using an analogue output if that helps by any chance.
Edit: there's no loader.bin file after each write. Is it invisible on windows or was it removed in newer builds?
I'm desperate...

[FTrevorGowen]

The green led blinks only once when I plug in the power and that's all. With other OS the green led is blinking constantly. I'm using an analogue output if that helps by any chance.
Edit: there's no loader.bin file after each write. Is it invisible on windows or was it removed in newer builds?

loader.bin is no longer required/used.
For reference (esp. other readers of this thread) I've created a fresh SDHC card image of February's Raspbian Wheezy on a Kingston 4Gb card (actually a 4Gb micro-SDHC + adapter) via Ubuntu's "Image Writer" and an external Integral USB SDHC card reader/writer. (I'm not certain that my netbook's SD card slot is SDHC compatible ie. it's not marked as such) The first partition of said card is reported by Ubuntu as containing 12 items using 19.3Mb of a 59Mb filesystem, 39.2Mb freespace and capacity 58.7Mb. Windows XP shows 12 files, 19,415,040 bytes (18.5 Mb) used, 39,247,872 (37.4Mb) free, capacity 58,662,912 bytes (55.9Mb).
Ubuntu shows the twelve files thus:

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trevor@BlueElf:/media/C522-EA52$ ls -laF
total 18980
drwx------ 2 trevor trevor   16384 Jan  1  1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root   root      4096 Apr  4 19:59 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor   17764 Feb  8 23:21 bootcode.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor     142 Feb  9 00:27 cmdline.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor    1180 Feb  9 00:27 config.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor    2260 Feb  8 23:21 fixup_cd.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor    5898 Feb  8 23:21 fixup.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor    8687 Feb  8 23:21 fixup_x.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor     137 Feb  9 02:42 issue.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor 9609792 Feb  8 23:21 kernel_emergency.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor 2802568 Feb  8 23:21 kernel.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor  569240 Feb  8 23:21 start_cd.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor 2694676 Feb  8 23:21 start.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 trevor trevor 3631684 Feb  8 23:21 start_x.elf

A single blink of the green led is usually associated with power supply issues preventing proper boot up - dependent upon what USB devices are directly plugged into a Pi. This also appears to be happening more often for images written via Windows. You have not stated what model Pi you have - I tend to assume a model B2 (512Mb) since they're (probably) more common (I have a B1, two B2's and an A, all normally running Wheezy). Model A's have known USB issues that are, AFIK, different to B's, these are being looked into by the community developers. The sting in the tail (for me ) is that when I tried the pristine SD card from the above exercise in my model A it failed to boot (not even a "green flash") yet the same card worked straight away in one of the B2's. I also use standard Integral 4Gb or 8Gb SDHC cards and the model A was booting without issues from one of those. As they say "the plot thickens".
Trev.

[deadsource]

So the only option is to try writing my SD on a linux based OS by the sound of it. I'll try that on a virtual machine. Hope it'll work.
Edit: By the way, did a new version come out? A few days ago I've downloaded 2012-12-16 version now there's 2013-02-09 version. Got to try this one out, maybe it'll work!
Edit2: the new version works! You could've had uploaded it sooner RPi people...