Questions tagged [noobs]
Questions involving the New Out Of Box Software (NOOBS). Use this tag if you are having trouble using NOOBS to boot your Pi, having trouble with using NOOBS to install an OS, or your question involves NOOBS, such as how to configure an installation from within NOOBS.
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Cannot boot up initially
I bought a new Raspberry Pi 3. I purchased a specific power supply for it as well (CanaKit 5V 2.5A Raspberry Pi 3 Power Supply). I then formatted my 8Gb microSD card according to this instructions. ...
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NOOBS doesn't work! The worst! (My research!)
Why i called it "The worst"? Beacuse i can't make it work >:(. "And sorry im 11 years old using this and im lithuanian so there are some mispells or mistakes so don't ban me!". There are five devices ...
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Add extra partition in Raspberry pi memory card
I need to add extra partitions in raspberry pi memory card.
I am using 16GB memory card with my Raspberry Pi and need Extra Partition so i can arrange data in memory card and save the backup data in ...
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Omxplayer failing on Raspberry pi 3 with Jessie OS
On my Raspberry Pi 2 running Wheezy, I have a php if statement that if true
echo exec('/usr/bin/X11/omxplayer -o local --win "0 0 1680 1080" /var/www/xxx/thisvideo.mp4 > /dev/null 2>/dev/null');...
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Raspberry Pi HDMI not Working
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 & a Windows 10 PC. I have extracted the NOOBS file and saved the extracted file on an SD Card. I tried to do the first boot on my Raspberry Pi with the SD Card inserted and ...
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avahi-daemon fails to start at start-up
My RPI is running on NOOBS. avahi-daemon fails to start at start-up
I need to do
sudo service dbus start
sudo service avahi-daemon start
to start it. How can I start dbus before avahi-daemon at ...
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Noobs won't boot on my PI2 - Debian image works fine
I did get my pi2 recently; and I did get it with a SD card with Debian pre-installed.
Then I decided to try Noobs, so I did format the card with the window utility (doing the overwrite procedure, it ...
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Raspberry Pi 2 model B green led is blinking 8 times
When I am booting up my Raspberry Pi 2 model b, green led is blinking for 8 times.
I read all the post related to it and done necessary things without success.
I changed SD card, tried Noobs, Wheezy,...
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Unable to boot with RPi2 from a USB stick
I’m somewhat confused. I was able to download NOOBS from the Raspberry Pi web –site. I right click on the downloaded file (NOOBS ZIP) and unzip, NOOBS. I copy and paste NOOBS onto the micro SD card....
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X Server Not Starting on Raspbian Jessie
After deciding to use zsh, I started using the GUI again, as it supports Powerline fonts for the oh my zsh theme. Anyways, I used sudo raspi-config and set the boot option to GUI with required login. ...
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Raspbian migration from Raspberry Pi 2 to Raspberry Pi 3
I have spent the past couple of months developing software on my RPi2 and I would like to now run this on my RPi3 to take advantage of the higher performance. The software I have written relies on ...
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Raspberry Pi will not Boot after some days of working
I have installed NOOBS on a Raspberry Pi B+ and it has worked for for 15-20 days.
But now it will not boot.
The Green LED light blinks 2-3 times and goes off and didn't blink after that.
Please help ...
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CENTOS7: Gnome Desktop for Pi2 (xorg-x11-server package Missing)
It was recently announced support for GNOME 3.14 and KDE 4.14 desktop environments, X.Org Server 1.17 display server"
http://news.softpedia.com/news/centos-7-linux-officially-released-for-raspberry-...
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Mac Clone SD with dd failing during boot
I am having issues cloning one MicroSD to another using my Mac. I have been working on this for days and have tried several things, all with the same end result.
Here is my process:
First, I put my ...
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RPi 2 isnt booting, Green and Red light ON
I have Rpi 2 model B v1.1 for a week. I tried some cirquits with GPIO pins. One day i made a simple button cirquit. It worked well. But few minutes ago Rpi crashed, i powered it off. When i power it ...
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Raspberry Pi 2 Won't Boot
I have a problem with my Raspberry Pi 2, after a week yesterday I tried to boot up but it won't read my SD Card & I'm not getting any display on my TV. I checked the PWR & ACT led on the board ...
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Windows 10 IoT Dual Boot
I have a new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B ARMv7 (with blank 64GB SDcard), and would like to install Windows 10 IoT Core. I know it's supported for this hardware.
What I'd like to do though, is have the ...
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NOOBS multiboot - resize partitions
I just started playing with NOOBS and a question came to my mind. I installed Raspbian, OpenELEC and OSMC on the same SD.
The config didn't ask how I wanted to split the memory for the three OSs and ...
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Preparing/setup a SD card with NOOB using Linux
The stages for preparing a SD card with NOOBS describe at https://www.raspberrypi.org/help/noobs-setup/ are amid for Windows and Mac. At least, the part when formating the SD card is different in ...
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Re-configure Raspberry Pi as if it was new
Was going through a tutorial, and I forgot to enable I2C interface and load the I2C kernal module, as well as a few other things. I just want to get it back to the point as if I didn't configure ...
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Do You HAVE To Use SDFormatter Before Installing NOOBS?
SDFormatter is often recommended to format the SDCard.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/19928/39410
http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Using_NOOBS
I have never heard of this software ...
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Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown- block(179,6) running Raspbian on top of NOOBS
When booting, the sequence stops at the following:
Kernel panic-not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(179,6)
What can I do to get my Raspberry Pi 2 to boot again using the ...
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How do I remove OSMC from a Raspberry Pi 2?
So, having bought a Raspberry Pi 2 for the first time a couple of days ago, I watched some videos online about this thing we all know as OSMC. I use the EXE file installer and it installs it to the 8&...
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Visibility in network after internet sharing
I have RPi 2 with NOOBS Jessie (1.5.0). I've connected it to my laptop (Win7) through ethernet cable and done internet sharing from WiFi. Internet on raspberry is working, ssh also working (I cannot ...
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How do I get RCA video out of OpenELEC/LibreELEC?
Thanks to help received in here, I was able to get RCA video out of my Raspberry Pi 1 version B with NOOBS.
With Raspian (installed via NOOBS) all I had to do was editing the config.txt file to ...
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Can I get the full version of Windows 10 on Raspberry Pi
Here is what i was thinking. download Windows and NOOBS on an SD card and install it that way. Will that work?
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Problems with Pi Model 2B Boot
I got a Pi 2B with an SD card with NOOBS. I´d like to access it later on with Tight VNC.
My problem is the first boot up. I have the pi connected via an ethernet cable...
In the first scenario to my ...
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TV screen is black when using analog TV via yellow video cable (with or without scart adapter)
My Pi (1 version B, running OpenELEC and Raspian installed via NOOBS) works like a charm via HDMI (mind you, I also happen to use an HDMI to DVI adapter and I have no problems with that). But I cannot ...
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recovery console - worked once only
Im attempting to setup an rpi via the recovery console ("headless mode") via Mac. I installed the serial port drivers, plugged in the cable (per instructions) and started a session via ...
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Pi 2 - Debian (Noobs) Desktop missing
I'm running a Rasp Pi 2 and i've had noobs installed for about 3 months.
Recently Restarted my pi, by going to and shutdown then restart.
After the pi rebooted, I lost my desktop.
I can Cntl+Alt+...
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Recover files from corrupted SD card from Windows
About a year ago I installed NOOBS on an SD card, then put raspbian on the SD card using NOOBS, and it's always worked fine, however I now have a problem where whenever I boot into raspbian I get "...
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My Pi freezes during install
I have a Raspberry Pi 2 B and I used NOOBS and NOOBS Lite to install Jessie but when I selected Jessie and install, it starts to install but then says "zeroing start of each partition" and as I try to ...
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how to connect raspberry pi with composite in crt monitor?
I don't have a monitor with hdmi input so I purchased an av cable to connect my raspberry pi 2 model b with a crt tv I have. I have read that the default output of the pi is the hdmi and I tried to ...
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RPi not booting in NOOBS or wheezy
I recently got my own Raspberry Pi (2 B V1.1)
I have got an 8 GB micro SD for it.
I used the standard procedure to put Wheezy on it.
It shows the splash screen, and the console-output for about 3 ...
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solid red + solid green on bootup [duplicate]
Just got an SD card:
SanDisk Ultra 32GB microSDHC UHS-I Card with Adapter, Grey/Red, Standard Packaging (SDSQUNC-032G-GN6MA) (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q57T02)
Formatted it with ...
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My password doesn't work over ssh
I am trying a headless install and using NOOBS v1.4.2 .
I followed the instructions on this thread: Installing Raspbian from Noobs without display and changed the password on \os\Raspbian\os.json ...
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noobs reset password Debian
Hello I'm a Raspberry Pi newbie and It seems that I lost my password.
I was trying to ssh but unable to because of password problems. Connecting pi to my TV, I can get to the command prompt #, but ...
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What is the difference between $ sudo reboot and $ reboot? [closed]
I have got Raspberry Pi 2 Model B v1.1 with NOOBS v1.4.2 Raspbian loaded.
What is the difference between
$ sudo reboot
and
$ reboot
typing in terminal?
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Fast reinstall of rPi with desired dependencies
I do a lot of experimentation on my rPi and I frequently want to wipe the OS and start clean. However, there are a number of things that I want installed/ configured no matter what I'm doing on the pi....
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couldn't install libusb library
I'm trying to install a third party library, which has a dependency with libusb-1.0-0dev library. Raspberry pi has NOOBS setup, which I believe libusb library is pre-installed within it. To cross-...
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Can't get Ubuntu Mate on NOOBS?
So Ubuntu mate is now an 'official' third party OS I guess:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
I'd like to install it to try it out, I know how to install using a .img file, no problem.
The ...
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OpenHAB to I2C instead of Internet/Ethernet
I want to use OpenHAB to make home automations using a Pi to run it and send and receive data from an Arduino, which will be controlling lights, reading sensors, etc.
But to avoid the cost of an ...
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how to skip NOOBS boot menu
So I installed Raspbian and OSMC on my pi and I like using both, but is there a way to skip the 8 second boot menu?
I ssh into raspbian often which can require rebooting, so it adds an extra 8 ...
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Running Adobe Flash application on Raspberry Pi B+
I'm working on a project using Raspberry Pi B+ running NOOBS / Raspbian.
We wish to run a flash application from the equipment manufacturer.
We used Windows PC / running Windows Vista previously. We ...
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RPi cold boots into low resolution (LCD)
I have this LCD connected to my RPi B+ (HDMI). I have configured the boot config.txt to enable its 1024x600 resolution, however, on COLD boot - it runs at a lower resolution. Only after a SOFT reboot, ...
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Mouse is not working on being connected. How to solve the issue?
I just turned my raspberry pi on connecting only monitor and mouse to it.
I have a power supply of 5V 1500mA. I am still on the screen where you start installing from NOOBS
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Error installing OS with Noobs
I have a Raspberry PI model 2B and tried to install Raspbian and OpenELEC through it. I followed the correct installation procedures and the installation succeeded the first time but OpenELEC was not ...
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configure setup to install apache, php, and then copy in /var/www/
Is there a way to cause noobs to install apache and php during setup, or perhaps leave a script which will do that upon first boot? And then copy info into /var/www? Basically what I want is a way ...
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Is there a way to do a slient install on a raspberry pi, but to also include setup information while installing?
First of all, I know how to setup a slient install given a list of instructions provided in another question: (Installing Raspbian from NOOBS without display)
However, I need this thing to setup its ...
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Raspberry Pi B possible sd card issue? [duplicate]
So, I had 2 kingston SDHC 16 gb cards. They used to work fine on my raspberry pi B until there were a few power outages. When I used them on my computer or video camera they work perfectly fine. But ...