First I put the NOOBS on my Kingston 8gb SD Card. I get the green light blinking in groups of 3. No video signal on my HDMI connected TV. Note that I tried a number of things to get this far. At one point my card looked bad but I recovered files. At this point I have the following folders/files on the SD Card:
Images folder
NOOBS_v1_2_1 folder
bootcode.bin
BUILD-DATA
I get the 3 green blinks.
Then I used Win32DiskManager to put 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip on the SD Card.
So now I have this file also on the root directory of the SD card:
2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian Disc Image File
I still get the 3 green blinks.
I moved the wheezy-raspbian file into the Images folder. Still the same 3 green blinks.
Questions:
Do the NOOBS files work with the wheezy raspbian image file?
I read that the 3 green blinks mean I need the Start.elf file. How do I get that?
What did I do wrong? What should I do?
THANKS!!!!
Earl
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EarlSoccer
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Re: booting up
NOOBS first.
There should NOT be a NOOBS folder on your SD card. After it has been reformatted and resized, and you have unpacked the NOOBS zip archive onto it you should have folders named 'images' and 'slides', and 8 other files. That's all.
NOOBS contains a copy of 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian along with several other operating systems - you don't need to add them to the card. (and trying to add a downloaded .img file won't work even if you do.)
NOOBS is simplest - I recommend retrying that first.
Second - the 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip method - which you won't need.
You DON'T copy the zip file onto the SD card. You have to unpack the zip archive on your PC. Then you use Win23diskimager to write the contents of the 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.img file onto the SD card. (In this case you don't need to reformat the card first because it will be totally overwritten.) Note that simply copying the .img file onto the SD card won't work.
References:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
There should NOT be a NOOBS folder on your SD card. After it has been reformatted and resized, and you have unpacked the NOOBS zip archive onto it you should have folders named 'images' and 'slides', and 8 other files. That's all.
NOOBS contains a copy of 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian along with several other operating systems - you don't need to add them to the card. (and trying to add a downloaded .img file won't work even if you do.)
NOOBS is simplest - I recommend retrying that first.
Second - the 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.zip method - which you won't need.
You DON'T copy the zip file onto the SD card. You have to unpack the zip archive on your PC. Then you use Win23diskimager to write the contents of the 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.img file onto the SD card. (In this case you don't need to reformat the card first because it will be totally overwritten.) Note that simply copying the .img file onto the SD card won't work.
References:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/quick-start-guide
http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
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EarlSoccer
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Re: booting up
[quote="DeeJay"]NOOBS first.
There should NOT be a NOOBS folder on your SD card. After it has been reformatted and resized, and you have unpacked the NOOBS zip archive onto it you should have folders named 'images' and 'slides', and 8 other files. That's all.
NOOBS contains a copy of 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian along with several other operating systems - you don't need to add them to the card. (and trying to add a downloaded .img file won't work even if you do.)
NOOBS is simplest - I recommend retrying that first.
Thank you DeeJay!
If you read my last post, forget it, I just deleted it. I had my cables mixed up. I straightened that out and now the screen shows up. It asks which OS I want and what language.
I have an Inland wireless mouse/keyboard combination. The keyboard did not work (it does work on my desktop PC). The mouse allowed me to select Raspbian. Then I get this message:
Error writing image to SD card
dd: /dev/mmcblk0: invalid argument.
I think I read something about that somewhere. I believe my file is from June 26 and I just found this:
This bug has now been fixed in the latest version of NOOBS (1.2.1) available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.
So I guess I'll start over, being careful to format the SD card with the correct tool too.
Why do I think I'll be posting here again?
Earl
There should NOT be a NOOBS folder on your SD card. After it has been reformatted and resized, and you have unpacked the NOOBS zip archive onto it you should have folders named 'images' and 'slides', and 8 other files. That's all.
NOOBS contains a copy of 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian along with several other operating systems - you don't need to add them to the card. (and trying to add a downloaded .img file won't work even if you do.)
NOOBS is simplest - I recommend retrying that first.
Thank you DeeJay!
If you read my last post, forget it, I just deleted it. I had my cables mixed up. I straightened that out and now the screen shows up. It asks which OS I want and what language.
I have an Inland wireless mouse/keyboard combination. The keyboard did not work (it does work on my desktop PC). The mouse allowed me to select Raspbian. Then I get this message:
Error writing image to SD card
dd: /dev/mmcblk0: invalid argument.
I think I read something about that somewhere. I believe my file is from June 26 and I just found this:
This bug has now been fixed in the latest version of NOOBS (1.2.1) available from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads.
So I guess I'll start over, being careful to format the SD card with the correct tool too.
Why do I think I'll be posting here again?
Earl