Problems with the New Image

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Problems with the New Image

Postby bfmersion » Fri Jun 20, 2014 4:48 pm

Hi Alan
First congratulations on a great project with the Pi Camera Robot; mine is very well behaved with the January image. Recently downloaded the May image and have not been successful in installing it. It boots to a blank screen with a cursor flashing upper left. Characters can be typed and appear but no action occurs on CR.
I have tried two different downloaded images on 2 different cards (one 4Gb and one 8Gb and on 2 different RP boards. Same results. Any ideas?
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Re: Problems with the New Image

Postby Alan » Sat Jun 21, 2014 11:53 am

Hi there,

I think that this is a problem with the disk image not being expanded. It should still work with your robot, but it doesn't boot into the desktop because of a lack of disk space... :oops:

I will try to post a replacement image this week, but in the meantime I think that you should be able to press ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2 to get to a command line. The on the command line if you run

sudo raspi-config

select 'Expand Filesytem' and then reboot, everything should be fine. Alternatively you should be able to connect using a network cable and ssh to do the same thing.

Sorry this is less than user friendly. Please let me know how you get on.

Regards

Alan
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Re: Problems with the New Image

Postby bfmersion » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:51 pm

Hi Again Alan
Yes, great, the Alt-F1 produces the command line; however username and pw not known. Tried many guesses but to no avail. What to use?
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Re: Problems with the New Image

Postby Alan » Tue Jun 24, 2014 3:59 pm

Sorry should have said.

username: pi
password: raspberry
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Re: Problems with the New Image

Postby bfmersion » Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:08 pm

Thanks Alan. I did finally arrive at that after going back to the original RPi software page. Now I have everyting OK. The image expanded nicely and everything ok on the non-robot RPi, so I expect the same on the Robot. Above, of course, what worked was Ctl-Alt-F1.
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