Greetings:
I'm going to provide more information here than you probably need, but want to make certain the situation is understood.
I've recently configured a Pi2B+ with the latest Raspbian 12 (bookworm) image, and it's kept fully updated/upgraded. I've added the MOC command line audio player and have written scripts and a somewhat elaborate crontab to use this unit as a carillon for a local church. Plugged into the Pi is a USB mouse, a USB keyboard, a USB WiFi dongle, a display (HDMI), a regular sound cable running to the speakers, and the power supply.
Everything works perfectly at home. However, when I disconnect the Pi and take it to the church, it will not successfully boot! At the church, it's using the same power supply and the same WiFi dongle. The keyboard, mouse, display, and sound system being plugged into are different. Even with everything unplugged except the display, it keeps rebooting before providing a desktop (Sometimes the red light goes out and the green light just blinks). It provides the 'rainbow', sometimes a blinking cursor in the top-left, sometimes 3 square 'dots' in the top-left quadrant, sometimes the Raspbian/Debian boot text in the top-left corner before rebooting again.
If I disconnect everything, bring it back to the workbench, and hook it back up to the original stuff, it takes several reboots with various things unplugged before it finally boots properly. At this point it appears to be rebooting stable.
I tested all components together at home prior to taking to the church, otherwise I would be seriously suspecting the display. Today I took the keyboard and mouse from home to test with, no difference.
I've gone through this series of steps (back and forth between the church and home) four times now and am getting very frustrated. Why will this Pi not boot properly at the church? Is there something goofy about the plug-and-play of the USB items with Raspbian?
I've reviewed the 'Won't boot' stickies, but as I said, this boots fine at home (after some retries when returning from the church).
Any and all suggestions are very much appreciated! Thank you!!
Neil
I'm going to provide more information here than you probably need, but want to make certain the situation is understood.
I've recently configured a Pi2B+ with the latest Raspbian 12 (bookworm) image, and it's kept fully updated/upgraded. I've added the MOC command line audio player and have written scripts and a somewhat elaborate crontab to use this unit as a carillon for a local church. Plugged into the Pi is a USB mouse, a USB keyboard, a USB WiFi dongle, a display (HDMI), a regular sound cable running to the speakers, and the power supply.
Everything works perfectly at home. However, when I disconnect the Pi and take it to the church, it will not successfully boot! At the church, it's using the same power supply and the same WiFi dongle. The keyboard, mouse, display, and sound system being plugged into are different. Even with everything unplugged except the display, it keeps rebooting before providing a desktop (Sometimes the red light goes out and the green light just blinks). It provides the 'rainbow', sometimes a blinking cursor in the top-left, sometimes 3 square 'dots' in the top-left quadrant, sometimes the Raspbian/Debian boot text in the top-left corner before rebooting again.
If I disconnect everything, bring it back to the workbench, and hook it back up to the original stuff, it takes several reboots with various things unplugged before it finally boots properly. At this point it appears to be rebooting stable.
I tested all components together at home prior to taking to the church, otherwise I would be seriously suspecting the display. Today I took the keyboard and mouse from home to test with, no difference.
I've gone through this series of steps (back and forth between the church and home) four times now and am getting very frustrated. Why will this Pi not boot properly at the church? Is there something goofy about the plug-and-play of the USB items with Raspbian?
I've reviewed the 'Won't boot' stickies, but as I said, this boots fine at home (after some retries when returning from the church).
Any and all suggestions are very much appreciated! Thank you!!
Neil
Statistics: Posted by nlcarter — Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:50 pm