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Really struggling to get a new RPIOS install working. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/raspberrypi@lemmy.ml

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Got a couple rpi 3Bs I'd like to use headless.

Downloaded 32bit pi os lite, flashed it to an sd card, powered on and did the initial setup (select keyboard layout, set first user+pass).

As soon as I'm dropped into a shell, I run 'sudo apt update' then 'sudo apt upgrade -y'.

Once these finish, I type 'sudo reboot'; the pi reboots, shows the rainbow splash, about a dozen lines of kernal boot messages then the video output dies and after a couple seconds the act light stops flashing too. Disconnecting power and powering it again does the same thing.

I don't know what to do from here.

I've spent the last 6 hours retrying this with both the 32 and 64 bit versions of pi os light. I can't get past the initial update/upgrade.

/edit: RESULTS!

Bad sd card. Tried a different one and all is well.

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[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One thing with Pis is they're very sensitive to having good power supplies. What are you using?

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

A known good supply I've been using with this exact rpi for years.

I have a working sd card I can swap in and that runs fine. Trying to setup a new clean install on a new card.