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My R-PI has been working fine for the past 5 days in a row with the official Soft-float Debian "wheezy", it was hard powered off by removing the plug from the wall, now the boot stops at the screen after the colored splash, the screen is completely black with the red berry logo on the top left corner, I see a cursor for 2/3 seconds and then nothing happens for at least 2 hours (no messages, kernel is not panic-ing, nothing is happening, red light is on, green is off).

I installed a bunch of software since last reboot:

  • java & scala
  • apache
  • mysql
  • php
  • the no-ip.org package

I tried to boot with only the screen connected (no eth, no usb devices), but still same result, I'm not even sure this is hardware related or software related, any debug suggestions?

Alex Chamberlain
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What I discovered is that you need to unplug the Raspberry Pi for about 10 minutes before loading the same or another SD card. If I switch cards to use a different OS-setup and doing this to soon I only get a splashscreen. After 10 minutes everything works fine again.

Stef
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Mine did the samething, I had put an older version of NOOBS on card to try and install Arch Linux.

The solution was to reformat the card following the NOOBS instruction video, and put the latest version of NOOBS on the card.

Kurt Frans
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The problem I described in the question was caused by the SD card being somehow damaged, I bought a new card, re-installed, now everything is working fine!

Arjuna Del Toso
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