Raspberry PI3 not booting

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digitalxxl asked Jan 12, '20

Raspberry PI3 not booting

Hi !

I have a Raspberry PI 3B+, downloaded the latest image today and burned it with baleaEtcher to an 64 and 32GB SD Card.

The Pi is not showing anything bejond the colored screen?

Any help is very welcome.

Thanks a lot,

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Answer 1 · 2020-01-12T16:21:13Z

markus answered · Jan 12, 2020 at 04:21 PM

Hi,

please try again using Win32DiskImager.

https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-operating-systems/win32diskimager

This is a proven way to write RPI Images to SD cards.

Regards,

Markus

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Answer 2 · 2020-01-12T17:00:28Z

digitalxxl answered · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:00 PM

Hi @Markus,

thank you very much for your quick reply.

Unfortunately there is no windows available here.

Any other Image I tested now (jessie or octopi for ex.) are working well.

So I am not sure the Problem is the etcher software?

Maybe any other idea ?

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markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:03 PM

Did you try writing an older Venus Image to the SD card? Does that work?

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markus ♦♦ markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:17 PM

@digitalxxl which file exactly did you write to the card?

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digitalxxl markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:28 PM

I tried

venus-image-raspberrypi2.rpi-sdimg.zip

2019-12-20 21:07

95M

as well as v2.30

Every image i tried showed the same behaviour.. stopped at colored pi screen.

Thanks for your support and best regards

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markus ♦♦ digitalxxl commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:36 PM

You did unzip it before? ;o)

I just tried using dd on macOS and that works with no problem.

I would suggest, using a different method of writing the image to the SD card.

Regards,

Markus

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digitalxxl markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:42 PM

HI !

Pretty weird.. i tried both - burning the zip (which is automatically extracted to 1.9GB) and tried to burn the unzipped sdimg. Every time the same result, pi not booting..

OSX Version is High sierra and Catalina (tried on both machines),

Thanks for your support and best regards,

Stephan

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markus ♦♦ digitalxxl commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:52 PM

https://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-flash-an-sd-card-for-raspberry-pi--mac-53600

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digitalxxl markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:54 PM

I just tried dd..

sudo dd if=~/Downloads/venus-image-raspberrypi2-20191220165723-v2.42.rootfs.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/rdisk4 bs=1m

same result.. pi not booting.. colored screen

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markus ♦♦ digitalxxl commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 05:58 PM

Strange, did you try yet another SD card? I am running out of ideas. This should work...

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digitalxxl markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 06:01 PM

Same here.. I tried an 32GB SanDisk as well as the 64GB SanDisk..

after dd the card looks like:

/dev/disk4 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *63.9 GB disk4

1: Windows_FAT_32 NO NAME 41.9 MB disk4s1

2: Linux 524.3 MB disk4s2

3: Linux 524.3 MB disk4s3

4: Linux 805.3 MB disk4s4

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markus ♦♦ digitalxxl commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 06:06 PM

looks legit. These Venus images should work without any further modifications. I slowly start to suspect, that your Pi has a problem. Any chance to try another one?

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digitalxxl markus ♦♦ commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 06:10 PM

I am slowly making some kind of progress. I found that if I boot the pi without my old dell monitor connected it seems it is reading the sd-card (at least the green led is on). But i can't see anything ;D

If I plug in the monitor later on display stays dark.

I will investigate further tomorrow morning and will report my results.

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markus ♦♦ digitalxxl commented · Jan 12, 2020 at 06:15 PM

you don't really need a monitor connected to the Pi. You can just use the Remote Console on LAN by just entering its IP to a browser. You can look for its IP on your routers DHCP lease table.

Best luck in getting this to work. Please report back!

Best Regards,

Markus

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Answer 3 · 2020-01-13T08:18:53Z

digitalxxl answered · Jan 13, 2020 at 08:18 AM

Good Morning !

I have now switched to the pi4 which has done other things in my home before and burned the image for the pi4 (which i found here: https://community.victronenergy.com/questions/25666/venus-on-raspberry-pi-4.html) to the 32GB SD-Card with Etcher and everything starts up perfectly and works like expected.

Why my pi3B+ does not start up is totally unclear at the moment. Nevertheless I have ordered another 3B+ to rule out any hardware issues.

I will report back once the new pi has arrived. ;)

Cheers and regards,

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tb commented · May 25, 2021 at 06:37 PM

Hi @digitalxxl,

did you manage to make your pi 3B+ work? I've had a similar problem, with the pi booting the first time but the console shows nothing and sometimes after around 5 to 8 minutes it restarts and stays on the black screen of the console with nothing on it.

Sometimes it just shows the colored screen of the pi and won't pass from it.

I burned the image of the Venus OS v.2.70~15 with BalenaEtcher on macOS.

I tested the pi and the same SD card with Venus OS v2.66 and it worked without issues, so I know is the v.2.70 that's just not working here.

Cheers,

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digitalxxl tb commented · May 28, 2021 at 07:05 AM

Hi !

No, that pi I had was not able to boot the sd image (RS Electronics).

I bought a new pi3B+ from another company and it worked perfectly.

The two look quite different even they both are telling they are pi3b+.

The one that is not willing to boot from the sd image also has other problems in other environments. My guess is that it might be buggy.

Hope that helps..

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