wpa_supplicant.conf causing a boot loop

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2E0LIG
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wpa_supplicant.conf causing a boot loop

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OK I have raspbery pi 3 A+ and cant for the life of me get this pi-star working.

I flash the SD card in a linux environment on zorin OS using etcher.

Now if I add the wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot section on the SD Card as stated to do, it creates a boot loop the pie just keeps displaying the first image below and rebooting time and time again never actualy loading pi-star.

If I leave out the wpa_supplicant.conf from the boot section on the SD Card then pi-star loads but I cant access it anywhere it tells me in the second image.

Can anyone help

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Re: wpa_supplicant.conf causing a boot loop

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creating it with this website under pi tools WI-FI generator.
Last edited by 2E0LIG on Sat Nov 13, 2021 11:45 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: wpa_supplicant.conf causing a boot loop

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managed to get it working using pi writer And my mobile as all of my computers in the house have no wi-fi all ethernet conneted to the router
Unfotunatly though after a reboot of the pi it just halts saying

kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (179,2)
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Re: wpa_supplicant.conf causing a boot loop

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KE7FNS wrote: Sat Nov 13, 2021 4:44 pm
2E0LIG wrote: Sat Nov 13, 2021 11:43 am kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (179,2)
You've either got SD card issues (counterfeit, or just incompatible), or whatever you are using to write the image is not working correctly.

compatibility list:
https://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards

Get a different brand/size of SD card and reimage.
Hi.
Yes although I had tried 4 diferent Sandisk Ultra's the problem persisted so went over asda and bought a new SD card 32gb Kioxia Eceria (toshiba I belive) now all working great.

Yhanks for the help
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