Pi will not boot up.

RE: Pi will not boot up.

e14 Contributor — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:04:45 GMT

The most likely cause of these problems is a incompatible SD Card. There is considerable talk on this topic on the Raspberry Pi forum at raspberrypi.org. Not all SD Cards are the same unfortunately.

I have a Kingston 2GB card that doesn't work, and a no name MicroSD card that does. It is a bit pot-luck I'm afraid.

RE: Pi will not boot up.

e14 Contributor — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:32:58 GMT

Can you help

My Raspberry PI does start the boot sequence

Power red light is bright, OK LED flashes green during boot up

Boot sequence seems to recognise keyboard and optical USB Mouse

Key presses appear on screen

Eventually boot up sequence gets to the following message

mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware interrupt

This message keeps on repeating in a wait for ever loop

Any ideas

DeeKay

RE: Pi will not boot up.

e14 Contributor — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:23:10 GMT

Hi Jimmy

You need to download a program called Win32DiskImager i think the text is a hyperlink anyway run this on your computer. it'll come up with a small window. Click the little folder button and select the iso file called debian6-19-04-2012 (the big file) click "ok".

select the drive your SD card in on (F: I think) then click "Write" After the program has finished (about 2mins) eject the SD card and place it into your Pi and turn it on..

I hope this helped anyone

Thanks For looking

Will950

RE: Pi will not boot up.

e14 Contributor — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:10:40 GMT

Are you sure that you have added the debian image to the SD card correctly?? there should be more than 2 files on the SD card when done.

Instructions on how to write an SD card for the Raspberry Pi can be found here http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup

You cannot simply drag the image file onto the card.

Mr P.

RE: Pi will not boot up.

bodgy — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 19:41:03 GMT

Double check that the SD Card is inserted fully. It might seem as though it is inserted but I've found the presence detect switch is not that sensitive, and a firm but gentle push is required to get the card recognised.

Also visually check to make sure there is no obvious solder pads not soldered.

Colin