2014-10-13, 00:57
My brother's had a bit of a disaster and his RPi won't boot. He's using a SD/USB boot and I've recopied the files to the FAT partition on the SD and it still doesn't boot, so it must be the USB that's corrupt but as Windows can't read the Linux partition on that, I'm not sure how to fix it.
I managed to get him running temporarily by changing to a SD-only boot, as I kept the second partition on there for such emergencies but I had to spend hours talking him through how to setup his media folders and so on, as I can't connect to it with Putty or WinSCP. I've definitely got the right IP address but both programs just fail to connect, with no error from the Pi to indicate where the problem might be.
If I could connect, I could take a look at the USB partition via WinSCP and copy across the files we backed up in August if necessary but without any way to connect, I obviously can't do that.
I did try booting Damn Small Linux in Virtualbox with the SD card in a USB adapter attached to the VM but it didn't seem to mount it anywhere, so I don't think I'll be able to access the USB stick that way either.
Can anyone please advise how I can sort this out? Once it's working again, I'll make an image of the SD card and USB in case it happens again, which I thought we'd already done but I can't see them anywhere on his PC, so I guess we didn't!
I managed to get him running temporarily by changing to a SD-only boot, as I kept the second partition on there for such emergencies but I had to spend hours talking him through how to setup his media folders and so on, as I can't connect to it with Putty or WinSCP. I've definitely got the right IP address but both programs just fail to connect, with no error from the Pi to indicate where the problem might be.
If I could connect, I could take a look at the USB partition via WinSCP and copy across the files we backed up in August if necessary but without any way to connect, I obviously can't do that.
I did try booting Damn Small Linux in Virtualbox with the SD card in a USB adapter attached to the VM but it didn't seem to mount it anywhere, so I don't think I'll be able to access the USB stick that way either.
Can anyone please advise how I can sort this out? Once it's working again, I'll make an image of the SD card and USB in case it happens again, which I thought we'd already done but I can't see them anywhere on his PC, so I guess we didn't!