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Questions tagged [boot-issues]

Errors occurring in boot; includes software/hardware issues.

Issues involving boot problems can include software/operating system issues as well as hardware problems, such as: power, SD cards, video, GPIO connections, etc.

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Raspberry Pi with boots up with Rainbow screen

How can I fix a Raspberry Pi with Rainbow screen on boot up? I have good voltage coming in and I believe I've formatted and setup the SD card properly. I have two of these boards that do the same thing; I bought them months ago but I am only getting…
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Raspberry Pi does not start up, green LED flashes 2 times

So I got a Raspberry Pi B+ and it worked very well. Some day something happened and the microSD was broken. I checked it using badblocks. Now I got a new microSD and wanted to rearrange my structure but the pi won't boot at all. Everytime I connect…
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Stuck Boot Reset | LSB: switch to ondemand cpu governor

HW: Raspberry Pi 3, 16 gig hard drive Relevant Output: Starting dhcpcd on all interfaces... Starting LSB: Autogenerate and use a swap file Starting LSB: Switch to ondemand cpu governor(unless shift key is pressed).. .. reset Description If I…
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Raspberry Pi stuck at black screen with blinking cursor

After starting pi, the screen gets stuck at blinking cursor at uppermost left side corner. When Ctrl+alt+F2 is presssed the login prompts for very small interval & disappears and this (as shown below) goes on until ctrl+alt+F2 is pressed. Raspbian…
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Rasberry Pi Black screen after boot wth blinking cursor

I currently have a Rasberry Pi B, one of the very early ones, I installed a fresh version of Raspbian today and everything was fine. I let the system update after the first boot and let it restart. Everything was normal. I then added Grafana,…
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troubleshooting raspberry pi booting with the green led light

Update : I've downloaded and copied the NOOBS images from here. Checked the hash, and when I run it on the Pi the green light blinks once and then only the red light is on. Nothing else happens from then on. Apparently there are logs somewhere?…
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overheating and not booting

I left the pi 2 compressing a huge file for about 18 hours and now it's overheating and not booting (I don't know if that's the cause btw). I had connected a device up to the 5v rail on the pi that used about 0.5 amps.There was also a drive…
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pi boots into emergency mode by default

I was recently updating my Pi when I accidentally interrupted the process by shutting down my notebook. I cannot login now and when I tried to reboot the Pi is going into an emergency mode. After entering this mode I tried sudo dpkg --configure -a…
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Raspberry Pi Model B 1GB version has both solid lights without SD Card

I got a used Raspberry Pi Model B 1GB Version. I am noticing something weird, even without a SD Card connected to it, after powering it on and connecting HDMI I see the rainbow splash screen. Both red and green LEDs glow solid and green never…
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Difficulty installing Custom Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 2 [USING WINDOWS]

I am having a hard time installing this OS onto my Raspberry Pi. Specifically, the Pi does not seem to boot (i.e. the red light and green light are both on). I used DD for Windows to put the OS on the microSD card. DISKPART and WinDD show me that…
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PXE Boot Raspberry PI Not working

I've been trying to get network booting working on the Pi, i'm using a 3B+ so this should work. The Pi is in it's own VLAN with DHCP running from a QNAP NAS in a seperate VLAN, the NAS is also running TFTP, the network switch has the appropriate IP…
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Raspberry Pi not booting after power outage

My apartment experiences frequent power outages. After a power outage there is an about 50% chance of the pi not booting. Unplugging it and plugging it back in usually causes it to boot. Is there anything I can do in software? Like waiting a few…
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Is it possible to use partition UUID for root-parameter in cmdline.txt?

By default the root parameter in /boot/cmdline.txt is set with PARTUUID. For example: dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=ae4da847-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait The…
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Stuck at "Started Show Plymouth Reboot Screen" during reboot

I installed Raspbian Jessie LITE in Raspberry Pi 3 (which I just purchased) by writing the image file to an 64GB microSD card. The OS booted up just fine, and I'm able to login to make changes (change password, keyboard layout, connect to wifi,…
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R-pi Booting Issue

I'm stuck with my RPi. When I powered it up with the pre-installed NOOBS card, both LEDs (ACT & PWR) are glowing solidly. My connected screen also displays no response. What could cause this problem?.
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