On 02/12/12 12:58, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 12:33:21PM +0000, Chris Walker wrote:
Can anybody help please?
My RaspberryPi turned up this week. I ordered it along with 2 8GB SD cards and some other bits and pieces. I downloaded a couple of disc images but I have been unable to write them to the cards.
I have a multi-way adapter and when I plug that into the USB port either on the front or rear of my machine I can check the hardware config. That shows USB SD Reader as sdc.
But when I try to write the downloaded image to /dev/sdc I get an error message :- sd 4:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery That's followed by this :- gs[26282]: segfault at 0 ip 00007effdb5dc470 sp 00007fff76b3c3c0 error 4 in libgs.so.9.02[7effdb3c9000+5f2000]
What software are you using to write to the card?
I'm trying to use the dd command.
But (there's always a 'but' ;-)), I have now googled the problem some more and found out that instead of relying on what the system is telling me, I should use the fdisk command. I did that, using 'fdisk -l' and it tells me that the card is /dev/sdg!
I'm unsure that what I'm being told there is true however as it tells me whatever card I put in, be it 8 or 16GB is 32GB. Despite that I thought I'd persevere.
I have now managed, I *think*, to write the images but when I hook up the Pi to my TV, I don't get anything on the display. Although I can see LEDs illuminated on the Pi itself, I don't get any output on the tv and nor do I see any LEDs illuminated on the keyboard.
My next thought was that if I've written the images correctly, I should now be able to read the cards, but I can't.
I'm not sure if the Pi will provide output on the composite connector as well as, or instead of the HDMI connector. I don't have an HDMI equipped tv so I'm having to rely on composite inputs. My next step is to check to see if the Pi should provide composite as well as HDMI output be default or if I would need to do something.
So it's off to google I go.