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Raspberry Pi 3B+ headless installation, no connection. #665

Closed mcmellow closed 3 years ago

mcmellow commented 3 years ago

Downloaded BerryBoot version berryboot-20201103-pi4.zip Installed it on a SD-card and add lines and changes for a headless installation. It is for a RPi 3B+

At power up only red led is solid on. No green led at all. nothing happens and can not ping the IP address

What can I do next? Please help.

mcmellow commented 3 years ago

Dear Maxnet,

Still struggling to get Berryboot running on a SD-Card. I have tried 2 versions 20201103-pi4 and 20200612-pi4. Used two different 64GB SD-cards formatter with SD-formatter and also with the Raspberry Pi Imager. Almost 10 different tries now. The Berry boot versions are unzipped to the root of the SD-card, add a ssh file and a wpa_supplicant.conf. And changed cmdline.txt for the use of VNC because I only have a headless RPi 3B+ Nothing else connected to it except a 5V - 2A PSU

When I boot the the rpi with the SD-card, the red led solid on and the green led flashing for 1-2 secs. Then only the red led is on solid. After 10-15 min I remove the power and look at the SD-card on a running RPi. There seems to be nothing changed at all on the sd-card. It is still one partition.

Disk /dev/sdb: 59.5 GiB, 63864569856 bytes, 124735488 sectors
Disk model: MicroSD/M2
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa553a923

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 124735487 124733440 59.5G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

No are there some other tricks I can do? Or am I doing something wrong?

maxnet commented 3 years ago

Sorry, but I don't provide support on anything headless. Connect a monitor...

mcmellow commented 3 years ago

Sorry, but I don't provide support on anything headless. Connect a monitor...

Thanks for your reply. It's a pity that I only hear this after 8 days of my first question. And 2 days of trial and error as described in my second question. And even a bit odd when you have this page on the website. https://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot/headless_installation

Unfortunately I don't own a separate monitor, only a laptop and RPi. Using a headless RPi is just one of the biggest pro's for me. You only need a RPi and a 5V PSU.

maxnet commented 3 years ago

No support, as in no technical support. Great if you can get it to work headless, but if not for any debugging a monitor is not optional.