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I flashed a clean 4GB SD card with raspbmc, and ran it on my Pi. It progresses through the installer but gets stuck in a reboot loop:

'R' screen -> "Relax, XBMC will resume shortly..." -> Blue "Updating XBMC" -> 'R' screen -> etc...

Pulling the power doesn't help, it reverts back to this cycle, except instead of the blue "Updating XBMC" screen there's a few lines of text, ending with "Mounting local filesystems: failed". Pressing esc to get to the terminal gets me to a black screen, I can't type at all. Nothing is connected to the Pi apart from a USB keyboard. I've reflashed the card twice, and the same thing happens. What's going on?

Tom Medley
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I experienced the same problem. I think the trigger of the reboot chain was an apt-get upgrade, though I'm not 100% sure. The only thing I tried was re flashing the SD, which helped till I finished to configure the system (installed samba, auto mounting devices etc). In my current image I avoided the upgrade and it runs fine up to now.

Luc
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Finally got to the bottom of this: it was a dodgy power adapter. Replacing the power adapter seems to have fixed the problem!

Tom Medley
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Not a great solution, but you can get the RPi to boot by disconnecting the ethernet cable while booting (preventing it from trying to update) and plugging it back in when it's up and running.

Tom Medley
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I had a similar reboot loop issue with a 4Gb sdcard and have now got it working after a reflash. The only things I changed were that I wiped and reformatted the card with an NTFS format instead of FAT before running install.py (I wondered if 4Gb was the issue) and then I also had direct ethernet cable plugged in before booting up the first time (I had no screen so am not sure whether it installed correctly).

It may have run without an internet connection the first time I tried.

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