Blank/Black screen after boot from NOOBS

[jpswade]

I've installed NOOBS v1.3 on another SD card.

I've installed OpenELEC and Rasbian.

OpenELEC will boot with no problems.

Rasbian does not, it simply shows a blank/black screen.

[Rob-Bishop]

This has been fixed in v1.3.1 which can be downloaded from downloads.raspberrypi.org/NOOBS/test and is due to be pushed ad the recommended release by the end of the week.

[jpswade]

This did not solve the issue.

[Rob-Bishop]

Is this a repeatable case with the v1.3.1 release? Have you tried reformatting and retrying?

[jpswade]

Yes, I was able to replicate the case using v1.3.1 after formatting and retrying.

[Rob-Bishop]

What make and model of SD card are you using? Do any other OSes result in a blank screen when installed via NOOBS? Are you using NOOBS lite or the full version?

[jpswade]

Sandisk Ultra 30MB/s SDHC Card 8GB
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00812K4V4/

As I said, I've tried booting to OpenELEC which boots fine.

For v1.3 it was full, for v1.3.1 it was lite.

[Rob-Bishop]

Can you try installing the other OSes and let me know which ones work?

[jpswade]

From the NOOBS menu, I've installed OpenELEC, Rasbian and Arch.

OpenELEC does work.

Rasbian and Arch do not.

[Rob-Bishop]

Could you provide details on the behaviour of the red and green LEDs after you have selected Raspbian in the NOOBS boot menu?

[maskatiya]

I'm having a similar issue with a custom OS install of Xbian 1.05a. When I boot the Raspberry PI, I see the NOOBS splash and then it goes to boot but all I get is a blank screen. The behavior of the LEDs is as follows:
The green ACT goes on for a second, display seems to go in a multicolour pattern (its the same one I get before my PI actually boots), and green ACT goes off and only RED PWR LED remains on.
I am using a Transcend 8 GB Class 10 Card.
Have tried with both 1.3 and 1.3.1 (Lite)

[maxnet]

I'm having a similar issue with a custom OS install of Xbian 1.05a

Double check that the firmware (start_.elf fixup_.dat) that comes with your custom OS is recent.
If it's too old it may not be multiboot capable.

[jpswade]

The Green (OK) LED does seem to be flashing, while the red LED is permanently on. It is as if it is booting. I plugged it into the LAN and it did appear on the network, responding to SSH.

It seems to me that it's not reading the config.txt that I dropped into the root.

[ghollingworth]

The first FAT partition is now the NOOBS partition, you cannot change the config.txt there, if you boot into NOOBS you can edit the config.txt using the built in editor...

Gordon

[Rob-Bishop]

If it's responding to SSH then it's a display related issue not a booting issue. You should never add files to the NOOBS root, instead use the NOOBS interface to change display settings.

[maskatiya]

maxnet, thanks changing the start_.elf, fixup_.dat and bootcode.bin to a newer version solved the issue for me.

[OnkelTem]

Same here. I've just installed Rasbian and it doesn't boot — I see just blank screen.
Red led is ON always, Green led is flashing for some time then switches off.
As far as I understand, I need to reformat my flash card (16Gb SiliconPower 10th class) and upload NOOBS there again, huh?

P.S. This is brand new Raspberry Pi B model purchased today. And I have generic JVS TV which has only RCA connectors for external sources and which I used to connect my Raspberry. So this is pretty strange — NOOBS worked fine, but after first reboot — Rasbian is unable to work. Odd.

[lurch]

@aneganov if you're using the RCA (composite) connector, it sounds like you're suffering from the same 'bug' as #142 i.e. you need to 'save' the switch to composite display, before installing Raspbian.

Alternatively (slightly more fiddly, but much quicker than installing Raspbian again), you can press / toggle the SHIFT key at power-on to trigger NOOBS, then press either 3 or 4 to switch to composite display, and then use NOOBS' built-in editor to edit Raspbian's config.txt http://elinux.org/RPiconfig to make Raspbian boot with composite-output instead of HDMI-output.

[lupa18]

Here the same than @OnkelTem
This NOOBS not working and I lose lot of time :(

[lurch]

@lupa18 You're commenting on an issue which was closed 3 years ago - there's been many changes to NOOBS since then.
If you're having problems, please open a new issue, providing as much information as you can.