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lcipir
lcipir over 9 years ago

Hello, I recently purchased a PI3 to use in one of my existing projects and the initial research I did led me to believe that the PI2 could be upgraded to PI3 by swapping out SD cards.  I got a PI3 from Adafruit and it would not work (4 slow blink followed by 4 fast blink ACT).  I asked them and they said that the PI3 has recently gone through a change that makes it not compatible with the PI2 OS.   The reason why I am asking is because my project is long and complicated and I would not want to have to redo the entire thing to go to PI3 since I made the project on PI2.  Any help feedback would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

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  • clem57
    clem57 over 9 years ago

    The 4 flashes gives some indication to the problem relating to start.elf

    R-Pi Troubleshooting - eLinux.org

    beacon_dave Makes a good point. If true, the start.elf is not up to snuff for this processor. Did you actually get dist-update to work? This should correct the file mentioned.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 9 years ago in reply to clem57

    May not want to update beyond NOOBS 1.4 though as it looks as if the partitioning has changed with NOOBS 1.5

     

    "Because of this partition change it is not advisable to 'upgrade' the version of NOOBS on an existing SD card from a version prior to v1.5 to one at v1.5 or later."

    https://github.com/raspberrypi/noobs/wiki/NOOBS-partitioning-explained

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    lcipir over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Ug, with after reading that I feel like I could make it work but hacking it to work.. I think I might have to go with what Nico suggested up above and bite the bullet if I decide PI3 is worth it down the road.

    Thank you all for the help!

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    lcipir over 9 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Ug, with after reading that I feel like I could make it work but hacking it to work.. I think I might have to go with what Nico suggested up above and bite the bullet if I decide PI3 is worth it down the road.

    Thank you all for the help!

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