2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.zip does not boot

[Daniel Bergqvist]

I have successfully installed "2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.img" on my memory card and Raspberry Pi boots fine with it. But when I install "2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.img" instead it doesn't boot. I see the red light and the lights for the Ethernet card, but the light for the memory card doesn't lit.

I use Win32DiskImager under Windows 7 to install the image on the memory card. Since I don't have any keyboard or monitor connected to the Raspberry Pi I cannot see any error messages. But I have tried several times to install the 2014-01-07 version and it fails every time, but if I install the 2013-09-25 version it works fine.

I don't know much about the version of the Raspberry Pi, but I know I have a model B.

Kind regards,
Daniel

[Michael Still (mikal)]

I am seeing problems with 2014-01-07 as well. With a monitor and a keyboard plugged in, I get dumped at a root prompt for a very minimal linux setup straight after the keyboard is detected. This linux setup is a 56mb boot partition. The root partition is not mounted.

[Attila Rakosi (rakosi2)]

I am getting same. I was running fine on "2013-09-25-wheezy-raspbian.img" but I did a "sudo apt-get upgrade" and never turned on again.

[peter green (plugwash)]

"I am seeing problems with 2014-01-07 as well. With a monitor and a keyboard plugged in, I get dumped at a root prompt for a very minimal linux setup straight after the keyboard is detected. This linux setup is a 56mb boot partition. The root partition is not mounted."
It sounds like you are getting dumped into the "safe mode", this is supposed to be triggered by placing a jumper but some people seem to end up in it unintentionally.

Try adding avoid_safe_mode=1 to config.txt

In general if things fail this early it's probablly not a raspbian problem and you are likely to have better luck on the forums or on the raspberry pi foundation's github issue trackers.

[Diederik (didi-debian)]

If this is still an issue, it should be reported at https://github.com/RPi-Distro/repo/issues

Thus I'm closing it as invalid.