Cant get off the starting blocks!

[Likkle]

Finally got my Pi today, that initial excitement has long gone

Its brand new from RS, the SD card is also a brand new 2gb card, ive formatted it and ran the Raspbmc v3 installer all went fine. Plugged in my RS power supply and a solid red and green light came on the board, but no HDMI output. So tried on 3 other TV's in the house. No luck the Tv's dont see a signal.

I know im missing something here, ive had a flick through the noob guides and had a google and see references to a Config.TXT but i can see no such file on my 68mb parition infact i cant see any files once the card's been powered on through the Pi. Has anyone got any tips for me, my new toys just infuriated me all night

TLR
- Two lights on Pi - Red and Green solid no lights on USB keyboard
- No HDMI output installed Raspbmcv3 multiple times, help

[emu]

is it worth you trying that openelec build?

[hjf288]

Try running Debian reference build before anything else to test it works fine..

[koola2]

I'd go with hjf288 advice. Go to the main site http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads and get the Debian “squeeze” image (only 443.06 MB) then use Win32DiskImager to put it on the SD card.

[Likkle]

great advice lads got it to boot with Debian

is there any prebuilt OpenElec images about?

[hjf288]

http://sparky0815.de/category/raspberry-pi-2/

[Likkle]

Cheers for the link W32imager reports that says my card is to small (100 odd blocks )

Maybe this is why Raspbmc acts up.

[EvilBoB]

I had problems with RaspBMC too initially. In the end I had to format my card (only a 256mb one) and halfway through formatting I would pop the card out. This scrambled the card and allowed me to format using the HP USB tool to the full size. Then I used the command line method of putting the image onto the card and all was good after that. The GUI installer doesn't work at all and I was ending up with the 68mb partition. It should be around 140mb if it works (If I remember correctly)