[arm-allstar] Won't Boot - tried all the usual stuff

[Patrick Perdue]

I've never used a screen at all. Can't see 'em, don't need 'em. It boots 
fine with nothing connected.


On 5/20/2021 9:36 PM, "Temporarily Offline via ARM-allstar" wrote:
> Wrapping this up for future searches.  The RPi2-3-4_V1.6-14_Allstar.img
> boots up in a higher resolution and doesn't try to autodetect what it is
> attached to.  I think its trying for 1920x1080 which would be fine for a
> modern TV, I just didn't have any to test with until I tried an extra-old
> monitor that said "resolution out of range" and that got me to thinking...
>
> So try at least a 1920x1080 screen and if that doesn't work, try a bigger
> screen!
>
> I'm up and running now with no changes to the pi or the image - just a more
> expensive screen.
>
> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 6:10 PM Temporarily Offline <
> temporarilyoffline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No Joy.  That's in the instructions and it comes Much further down - they
>> actually want you to do that from the pi running instead of before it boots.
>>
>> Tried it on existing image and a fresh burn.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 5:21 PM "Patrick Perdue via ARM-allstar" <
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>>
>>> You intend to use this for a SHARI hat? Have you modified cmdline.txt as
>>> instructed on the SHARI website? If so, there was (still may be) a
>>> documentation error, in which there is an uppercase P instead of a lower
>>> case p in cmdline.txt. If you haven't yet made this change, no idea.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/10/2021 6:09 PM, "Temporarily Offline via ARM-allstar" wrote:
>>>> Hardware: Pi4 4GB, Latest Firmware
>>>>
>>>> Working: I've downloaded the latest image, all the checksums match.
>>>>
>>>> Broken: I've used etcher to burn the .img.xz and the .img also. Neither
>>>> boot. The pi initializes and it goes to the rainbow screen after finding
>>>> the SD card... or it doesn't make it to the rainbow screen.
>>>>
>>>> Working: I've used etcher to burn the Raspbian image, boots fine
>>>>
>>>> Working: I've used the Arch method to create an Arch SD card
>>>>
>>>> Working? I've tried a 3a and 3.5am power supply both work with Raspbian
>>> and
>>>> Arch
>>>>
>>>> Working:  I've used 2 different Sandisk branded SD cards to boot Rasbian
>>>>
>>>> Working: I've used an RPi4-8GB model
>>>>
>>>> I have gotten the image to boot once on 8GB model with 3.5a power
>>> supply,
>>>> but that wasn't its intended home and needed to move it back.  I moved
>>> the
>>>> 3.5a power supply to the Pi4x4 and tried to boot it up bare (no Shari
>>> hat)
>>>> I'm trying `dd` to burn the image now, but I'm not sure that will help.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>> - TO
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