SOLVED Incredible Pi Issue

[nightstryke]

So before as stated, I had said eventually I would get around to setup a raspberry pi. Well the time has come, and with the server crash the PIAF forums had the Pi section is completely gone.

So my issue is this, I have a 512 Model B Pi, I did Win32diskimager to the SDHC Card and for some odd reason I cannot get any video out of hdmi, even with the settings in the config file. The red and green lights light up on power on, but only the red light stays on solid. Any help to getting this to boot properly would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[visionlogic]

A couple of thoughts...

1. What class SD card? Best to use Class 4, stay away from Class 10.

2. Is the SD card pressed firmly into the slot? There is a thin wire at the end of the slot that must sense that the card is fully inserted.

 

[nightstryke]

I'm using a 8gb Class 1, don't have a Class 4 lying around. And yes I did make sure that it was properly seated.

 

[visionlogic]

Did you use the SD Formatter 4.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC ( https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ ) to first format the card?

If it were me trying to decide whether or not this is a hardware or software image problem, I would do a NOOBS 1.3 download and unpack to the SD card, and boot and install from it as a test -> http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads

Just my 2 cents.

 

[nightstryke]

I had Wheezy working on it prior, but wanted to try the Incredible Build instead as I would kinda like to use it.

 

[visionlogic]

Maybe your Incredible 3.11 build download or burn was just bad? I burned, booted and am using 3.11 on my Pi without issue, except self-caused ones.

 

[nightstryke]

Sorry to double post, but i have done the md5 check with the image and everything looks fine. I am going to try SD Formatter and try again.

 

[wardmundy]

Look at the posting in Bugs section and see if that tip helps.

 

[nightstryke]

Ok so near far as I can tell it's got to be the Incredible Pi Image or the firmware files added on with it that's the issue. I just downloaded and tried Wheezy build from RPi's website and it works. So something in the Incredible Pi Image is wrong and does not support the Raspberry Pi Model B Version 2.0

I'll look into what files are what, maybe I can figure out the problem and try to get Incredible Pi working.

 

[nightstryke]

Again Sorry to double post.

Update: Yes it was the firmware files with the Incredible Pi Image. I replaced these files with working ones from the 9-25-2013 wheezy build on the RPi website.

Files:

• bootcode.bin
• fixup.dat
• fixup_cd.dat
• fixup_x.dat
• LICENSE.oracle
• start.elf
• start_cd.elf
• start_x.elf

After replacing these files and overwriting them on the 4-1-2013 Incredible Pi build, it booted up just fine. So I figured I would go and post the results here for all to see!

 

[tiggerpaws]

Well how the heck do you copy them ???
It keeps saying read only filesystem,
I'm getting pissed and about to smash something.

I am 2 seconds away from giving up and calling it impossible,

ok here is the story
I wrote the newest incrediblepi image file to
a 4Gb speed 4 kodak sd chip, it don't boot,
I understand that.

Then I wrote the above wheezy to a 8 gb speed 10
chip (no not the one to boot from) and thot ok I
shood be able to copy the files over from the 8 gb
to a dir on the linux laptop (ubuntu 12.4) and then
to the 4 gb sd chip

How the hell are you supposed to get the damn
files copeid if it won't allow it???

I tried remounting in rw and its gbroken i guess,
I question these results because I don't belive that
this is valid because it dont work for me.

Is this really worth screwing with or should I
just quit?

Is this whole raspberry edition worth the hassle?

I read and read thje nerdvittles articel and it does
not say a thing about how to get this to work, i can't
find directions anywhere thjat specify the parameters
that I need.

 

[wardmundy]

If you have a Mac, the fix is incredibly easy.

1. Mount your Incredible Pi SD card on your Mac desktop and double-click on the image to open it once it's mounted.

2. Download 2013-09-25-wheezy-fix.zip (3 MB) to your desktop and double-click on the zip file to decompress it. Then open the folder.

3. Drag all of the files from the wheezy-fix folder into the Incredible Pi folder on your desktop.

4. Close the folders and unmount the Incredible Pi image.

5. Insert the SD card in your Raspberry Pi, and you're off to the races.

 

[Redsket]

I'm a noob, in fact, they don't come any more clueless than me. I am having this same problem. I follow the guide and Incredible Pi does not boot, just the red power light is solid. So I was wondering how to write the 2013-09-25-wheezy-fix.zip files to the Incredible Pi SD card if you don't have a Mac...just Windows!

Thankshttp://incrediblepbx.com/2013-09-25-wheezy-fix.zip

 

[nightstryke]

It's called UNZIP, DRAG & DROP!

 

[Redsket]

Tried that before I posted...did not work.

 

[wardmundy]

Latest version on SourceForge has everything patched already.

 

[Sippy]

Ward, the installer ./make-sdhc doesn't find my sdhc card. My system sees the card just fine. I have downloaded the newest versions and it shows the following during the script toward the end of the script. Looking at the script, I don't see a command in it to look for the sdhc.

This installer will erase this device: .
Then it copies over the Incredible Pi image to it.
To proceed, press ENTER. Otherwise, Ctrl-C to abort.

Transferring Incredible Pi to ...
Wed Jul 2 11:38:53 CDT 2014
dd: failed to open ‘’: No such file or directory
Wed Jul 2 11:38:53 CDT 2014

Transfer completed.
You can safely remove the SDHC card now.

 

[wardmundy]

Sippy: If you know the device name for your SD card (fdisk -l will tell you), then just issue the following commands using your correct image filename (*.img) AND device name (with no number on the end!):

dd if=raspbian7-incrediblepi-06-18-2014.img of=/dev/sdb
sync

 

[wardmundy]

p.s. Start a new thread once a previous one is marked SOLVED, or someone may never respond to your new issue. Thanks.