W5OMR, et al: Bryan is correct, when you dd an image, it should be to the whole device, not a partition. dd if=RAT_RC1.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M you may be better off lowering the bs to something like 512k or 128k... some machines don't like high bs, for one reason or another, and there is no way of telling without significant detail. So re-image you SD card again, using the above format. And make sure that you are imaging the correct device! ~Benjamin, KB9LFZ On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 20:01 -0500, Bryan Fields wrote:
On 2/13/18 7:26 PM, ARS W5OMR wrote:
picked up an HDMI-to-VGA adapter for the monitor I have for this project
You have an analog only monitor on the RPi.
dd bs=1M if=/home/geoff/Downloads/RAT_RC1/RAT_RC1.img of=/dev/sdb1 3000+0 records in 3000+0 records out 3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB) copied, 239.58 s, 13.1 MB/s
Should be /dev/sdb if that's the location of the SDcard. /dev/sdb1 is the 1st partition on there, and that image needs to be on the boot block.
RPi3 red LED lights up, and that's where it ends. No monitor action, no nothing else.
You should at least see the "bios" output if the SDcard is bad, IIRC.
I'd try the sdcard and find a HDMI/DVI monitor, or just plug it into your tv :)
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