mwalimu wrote:I'm going to ask what is probably a dumb question. Of course you unzipped the image, right? And did you try rebooting the machine after it "went dark", right?
I used win32diskimager to write my image to my sd card. I also used 'dd if="romfile" of=/dev/sdx bs=1M' a smaller block size. I don't quite know how the disk imager programs work, but when they have gone wrong, it seems to me that the boot file "gets it" and and I have had similar symptoms.
Yeh, I did both. Interestingly today, the Infocast splash screen never went off for 2 hours. Never finished booting either. Rebooting by killing power just got the same behavior. And this image was made through the windows method. All the others have been via 'dd'. It is /dev/sdc naturally because I can't get the infocast up!
Here is a screen cap of fdisk on the uSD card:
http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=b2d7de3
or pasted:
Disk /dev/sdc: 7964 MB, 7964983296 bytes
246 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders, total 15556608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 4 18439 9218 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 18440 387079 184320 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 387080 755719 184320 83 Linux
Command (m for help): x
Expert command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 246 heads, 62 sectors, 1019 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 0 5 0 51 26 1 4 18436 83
2 00 51 27 1 93 14 25 18440 368640 83
3 00 93 15 25 135 2 49 387080 368640 83
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
Expert command (m for help): v
Partition 1: previous sectors 18439 disagrees with total 21453
Partition 2: previous sectors 387079 disagrees with total 384591
Partition 3: previous sectors 755719 disagrees with total 747729
Remaining 14800891 unallocated 512-byte sectors
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