Unable to boot up [Solved]

[bobpaul]

Got a couple of the sopine + baseboard + power combos. They just arrived, but neither seems to boot. I've tried several images on the SD-Card including the currated sopine Ubuntu image from the wiki: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Main_Pa..._OS_Images

I create the sdcard using 

Code:

zcat name.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdg bs=1M oflag=sync

Plugged into the baseboard I have an HDMI cable to a monitor, an ethernet cable, and the barrel power cable. The SD-Card is in the SOPINE and when powered there is a green LED on the baseboard and on the SOPINE. The monitor just always says there's no signal and nothing lights up on the ethernet jack.
I'm using a 16GB "Transcend Premium" SD-Card.

[Luke]

Got a couple of the sopine + baseboard + power combos. They just arrived, but neither seems to boot. I've tried several images on the SD-Card including the currated sopine Ubuntu image from the wiki: http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Main_Pa..._OS_Images

I create the sdcard using 

Code:

zcat name.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdg bs=1M oflag=sync

Plugged into the baseboard I have an HDMI cable to a monitor, an ethernet cable, and the barrel power cable. The SD-Card is in the SOPINE and when powered there is a green LED on the baseboard and on the SOPINE. The monitor just always says there's no signal and nothing lights up on the ethernet jack.
I'm using a 16GB "Transcend Premium" SD-Card.

1) what is the resolution of the monitor ? 
2) do the ethernet port LEDs blink?
if yes
3) have you tried to ssh into the SoPine ?

[dkryder]

there is only one sopine image i'm aware of and it is on the resources tab of the sopine page. xubuntu-xenial-mate-20170306-longsleep-sopine-8GB.img 5,242,880 filesize

[Luke]

The ubuntu and android images worked for me just fine ...

[dkryder]

i have only used the xenial and it works good. but one thing i did learn is the kernel update process about a month ago, maybe it has been fixed, would update with the pine64 kernel which would not boot and actually behaved just like the description by bobpaul. i also just looked and the image has been removed from the resources tab of the page i mentioned. another thing i wanted to mention about something i do with sodimm cards, mostly memory but also the sopine, is to clean with alcohol and insert/remove several times because there is always a chance for some type of manufacturing coatings on the trace tabs or connectors of the card or the baseboard. also,bobpaul, give etcher a try on writing the image just to eliminate the possibility of your command and/or dd not handling the image properly.

[bobpaul]

1) what is the resolution of the monitor ? 
2) do the ethernet port LEDs blink?
if yes
3) have you tried to ssh into the SoPine ?

1. 1080p (it's this monitor http://a.co/fMHyTtx)
2. The ethernet port LEDs did not blink.

I grabbed an 8GB sd-card I had in a RasbPi and flashed that with android and it worked. Then I flashed it with the Xubuntu image and that worked, too.

And now it's working fine with the 16GB Transcend card. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong.

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another thing i wanted to mention about something i do with sodimm cards, mostly memory but also the sopine, is to clean with alcohol and insert/remove several times because there is always a chance for some type of manufacturing coatings on the trace tabs or connectors of the card or the baseboard. also,bobpaul, give etcher a try on writing the image just to eliminate the possibility of your command and/or dd not handling the image properly.

Both of these seems like reasonable explanations for why it didn't work. Etcher looks like a useful tool; I'll try that next time.