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I am trying to use the current soft-float Debian release from the download page 2012-08-08-wheezy-armel. I can't get it to boot. There are a couple of brief flashes from the OK LED and the the red power LED is lit, the Raspberry Pi logo appears on the screen but nothing else. I have tried:

Re-downloading image and checking SHA1 checksum

Writing image on two different windows machines with two different card readers

Three different SD cards

Two different RPi boards

The beta wheezy image boots fine as do the Raspbian and Arch images. I'm using the recomended RS 1.2A power supply, keyboard, mouse and HDMI monitor only attached.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Edit: Here's the layout on the partition visible on Windows. Anything wrong with it?

    Volume in drive D has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is D5C1-EF53

 Directory of D:\

08/08/2012  17:06         2,018,480 arm128_start.elf
08/08/2012  17:06         2,018,480 arm192_start.elf
08/08/2012  17:06         2,018,480 arm224_start.elf
08/08/2012  17:06           630,768 arm240_start.elf
08/08/2012  17:06            16,536 bootcode.bin
08/08/2012  22:53               142 cmdline.txt
08/08/2012  22:53             1,180 config.txt
08/08/2012  17:06         6,231,036 kernel.img
08/08/2012  17:06         4,115,364 kernel_cutdown.img
08/08/2012  17:06        16,256,148 kernel_emergency.img
08/08/2012  17:06           275,235 loader.bin
08/08/2012  17:06         2,018,480 start.elf
09/08/2012  00:02               137 issue.txt
              13 File(s)     35,600,466 bytes
               0 Dir(s)      22,994,944 bytes free
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By a process of elimination I found that it was start.elf that was stopping the soft-float Wheezy image from booting. I copied one of the other memory split files to start.elf and can now boot the image.

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