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Raspberry pi sd card issues

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Former Member over 11 years ago

Even when everything is connected, my rasberry pi won't boot up. The pc (macbook pro) I am using as a display just stays on its normal screen. I suspect that this problem has something to do with my NOOBS-installed, formatted sd card, which will not load onto the pc even inserted properly into the sd slot, so I had to use a card reader to set it up. For some reason the sd card works only with the reader. Do you guys have any advice on what is causing this problem, and if so, what I can do about it?

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    0 Former Member over 11 years ago

    I have an HDMI to mini displayport adapter that I am using to connect the pi to the HDMI cables to the mac. All of the cables work fine, as I have used them to connect my mac to my tv.

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    0 fvan over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member

    As Roger mentioned: try to connect the pi to your TV using an HDMI cable, without connecting to the Mac.

     

    The Mac displayport is functioning as an output (for a second monitor), I'm not sure it works as an input.

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    0 rew over 11 years ago in reply to fvan

    And I'm pretty sure it DOES NOT work as an input.

     

    Let's put it this way: You've connected a bunch of cables to your mac, and then put the part you normally shove into the TV into the raspberry pi. Do you see the screen of your MAC suddenly appear on the raspberry pi? No? Thought so!

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    0 fvan over 11 years ago in reply to rew

    Well, it does seem to be possible to use an iMac as an external display: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3924

     

    But as we're talking about a MacBook Pro in this case, the feature is not supported.

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    0 fvan over 11 years ago in reply to rew

    Well, it does seem to be possible to use an iMac as an external display: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3924

     

    But as we're talking about a MacBook Pro in this case, the feature is not supported.

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