B+ not booting

[vectraboyv6]

hi i have a original pi and and new B+

im using a microsd card and a apator and have installed xbian. this loads and fuctions correctly on the original pi but on the B+ it refuses to boot. both the pwr and act lights light then after a few seconds the act light fades out, there is also no screen activitly via hdmi....

can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

thanks stu

[RaTTuS]

use the noobs image http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and install from there

[Gary Littlemore]

use the noobs image http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and install from there

I had the same issue with Raspbmc. Tried it with noobs, worked fine.

[drgeoff]

use the noobs image http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and install from there

I had the same issue with Raspbmc. Tried it with noobs, worked fine.

Then you either used an old download of Raspbmc or you didn't flash it properly to the SD card. On the downloads page here the standalone Raspbmc and the one in NOOBS are, to all intents and purposes, the same.

There is nothing wrong with the Raspbmc image in the downloads section here. The Xbian images at http://www.xbian.org/download/ are too old to work on the B+. It may be possible to use them after updating the files in the boot partition.

[vectraboyv6]

thank you drgeoff

i wonder if they are working on a updated image?

as i prefer xbian to the "others"

[drgeoff]

thank you drgeoff

i wonder if they are working on a updated image?

as i prefer xbian to the "others"

Try overwiting with the files at https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware ... aster/boot. These are all in the part of the SD card that Windows can access. (I've never used xbian.).

[vectraboyv6]

Thanks ill give that a try

[AlvaroFG]

any updates? i just got my B+ and have the same issue (no booting), I tried updating the boot files and all I got was the back light of the lcd monitor to turn on (before it was like the pi was off), but still no boot

[B.Goode]

any updates? i just got my B+ and have the same issue (no booting), I tried updating the boot files and all I got was the back light of the lcd monitor to turn on (before it was like the pi was off), but still no boot

With a new RPi B+, a valid microSD card, an adequate power supply, and a working monitor any current Operating System downloaded from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ should 'just work' : no need to update anything separately.

See http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... 28&t=58151

What is your starting point - do you have a 'working' SD card from an earlier RPi that you are trying to use with a B+, or is this a new installation?