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I'm attempting to install un-netinst using the instructions here. My ultimate aim is to install an Ethereum Client.

I have reformatted my 64GB SD disk to FAT32 and copied the files as instructed (using Windows7 and Macroit Partition Manager):

SD card setup for EthEmbedded

Link: http://ethembedded.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ua-netinst-sd-card-list.png

When I power up the Pi (3 Model B V1.2), the power LED comes on but nothing else happens.

I get no signal to the monitor.

What steps should I take to debug this?

The install config file is as below:

preset=server packages=sudo,nano,screen,dphys-swapfile,git,unzip # comma separated list of extra packages mirror=http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ release=jessie hostname=ethpi domainname= rootpw=root cdebootstrap_cmdline= bootsize=+128M # /boot partition size as given to fdisk rootsize= # / partition size in megabytes, leave empty to use all free space timeserver=time.nist.gov ip_addr=dhcp ip_netmask=0.0.0.0 ip_broadcast=0.0.0.0 ip_gateway=0.0.0.0 ip_nameservers= online_config= # URL to extra config that will be executed after installer-config.txt usbroot= # set to 1 to install to first USB disk cmdline="dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 elevator=deadline" rootfstype=ext4 rootfs_mkfs_options= rootfs_install_mount_options='noatime,data=writeback,nobarrier,noinit_itable' rootfs_mount_options='errors=remount-ro,noatime' 

My initial thoughts are that the FAT32 formatting is somehow incorrect. Windows indicates that the card is FAT32 formatted (RightClick->Properties). Is this enough to confirm that the format is correct?

EDIT:

I've also tried the following suggested by GitHub user 4eMaLo:

I got it to work for me by copying the boot/ directory from the official reposiory into the SD root and adding

[pi3] initramfs installer-rpi2.cpio.gz

to config.txt

Unfortunately I still get no response, aside from power on LED, from the Pi however.

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The problem was that the SD Card was not correctly formatted to FAT32. The Window7 "properties" dialogue box did show it as FAT 32.

I changed formatting tools and managed to get it working - although not completely.

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  • Please accept your own answer with a click on the tick on its left side. Only this will finish the question and it will not pop up again year for year. Commented Jan 21, 2020 at 22:32

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