I just purchased a Raspberry PI 3 and dropped my old SD card with Raspbian OS, which ran flawlessly on Raspberry PI 2, on Raspberry PI 3. It won't load or do anything. So, what version of Raspbian OS can you run on Raspberry PI 3?
2 Answers
Try doing:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Before you try putting it into the Pi 3. The Pi 2 and the Pi 3 have two completely different processors, and therefore Raspbian has had updates to cope with this.
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The processors are not that different. I was able to swap my card from rPi1B+ to rPi3 with no problems. Could you point out the differences in Raspbian to cope with the differences you mention?– SiKingSep 14, 2016 at 17:48
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They really are different. Cortex-A7 versus Cortex-A53. It's a different chip.– recanthaSep 15, 2016 at 8:33
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Instead of update and upgrade, I actually downloaded the latest Raspbian after reading hussainpatel's answer to keep it simple and it is running without any issue on Pi 3.– ThNSep 15, 2016 at 14:08
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Weird. I have Wheezy running on an rPi1B+, with some custom software. The OS itself is pretty stock. I moved the SD card to an rPi3, and it still runs fine.– SiKingSep 15, 2016 at 15:29
Yes, there are some changes (I would say major changes) for the Raspbian OS with regards to the Pi 3, because of new processor, inbuilt Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, new version of scratch, python, new Linux Kernel v4.4 and many more..
For more detailed information on what updates are in the Raspbian OS and how to upgrade, please refer below link. Raspbian update related to Pi 3
ARMv7 Processor rev 5 (v7l)and runningRaspbian Version 8 Jessiegrep kernel /boot/config.txt. Do you get anything back?