Latest OS update causes boot loop

[KD8DVR]

I updated all 5 of my pi zero hotspots today, using pistar-update. Upon rebooting, the pi's just looped....by looking at the light on the pi. Never completed booting. Just would continually restart.

I have to restore images from backup. Fatal errors.


Any ideas why?

Thanks.

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[KD8DVR]

Oddly enough, when I pulled the plug, instead of doing a proper reboot, the pi's rebooted properly. Strange. At any rate, issue resolved.

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[KD8DVR]

Yeah. I know. Strange...

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[KD8DVR]

Yeah. I know. Strange...

Were you looking at a monitor and seeing fatal errors, or just looking at the LED blink assuming it was bootlooping??

Cause the LED flashes X number of times to indicate a failure to load the different firmware files for the different chips during the boot sequence, but a fatal error AKA kernel panic would be beyond the firmware booting process, and would indicate a problem with the kernel or some hardware failure the board itself.

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* 2 flashes: Error reading SD card.
* 3 flashes: start.elf not found
* 4 flashes: start.elf not launch-able (corrupted)
* 7 flashes: kernel.img not found
* 8 flashes: SDRAM not recognized. You need newer bootcode.bin/start.elf firmware, or your SDRAM is damaged

I was looking at the leds. Looked like it tried to boot....but it could very well have been sending error codes.

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