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Struggling to get PI OS working on a 3B (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Got a couple rpi 3Bs I'd like to use headless.

Downloaded 32bit pi os lite, flashed it to an sd card, powered on and did the initial setup (select keyboard layout, set first user+pass).

As soon as I'm dropped into a shell, I run 'sudo apt update' then 'sudo apt upgrade -y'.

Once these finish, I type 'sudo reboot'; the pi reboots, shows the rainbow splash, about a dozen lines of kernal boot messages then the video output dies and after a couple seconds the act light stops flashing too. Disconnecting power and powering it again does the same thing.

I don't think it's hardware failure as I get the same results with both 3Bs and with a 4B.

I don't know what to do from here.

I've spent the last 6 hours retrying this with both the 32 and 64 bit versions of pi os light. I can't get past the initial update/upgrade.

Anyone got any ideas? Anyone got a spare sd card, a pi 3B, and some free time to see if I'm just stupid somehow? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

/edit: RESULTS!

I can only assume this was a bad sd card. Tried a different card, with the exact same procedure: it finally booted after an upgrade.

Ran the update/upgrade again + a dist-upgrade and a couple more reboots. Up and running.

Excuse me while I go grab an image of that working card to file away.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

if you want em headless, you might wanna try dietpi (https://dietpi.com/). It's a debian base with an active developer maintaining a bunch of very useful utilities designed to make managing pis and SBCs as simple as possible. Better yet, it's designed to be extremely minimal on system resources, and strips out stuff like the display server unless you choose to install it.

Ive had it running on a homeserver on a pi4b for years now and it's rock solid.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

I might consider it next time around; but after taking almost 10hours yesterday just to get raspiOS + docker running I'm leaving it the hell alone for a while.

This was just supposed to be a quick refresh to get my primary pihole off bare metal and into docker like the backup server is. Figured I'd be there for an hour or two, not 10...