Here’s the symptom. I follow the procedure to install the OS to a T (American idiom meaning, “exactly, without deviation”)
When I get to the section, START UP YOUR RASPBERRY PI and I turn on the RPi 3B+, nothing happens other than the power light turns on. No blinking lights, router didn’t show that its DHCP server gave out a new IP address, nothing.
Initially I created the image on a Windows 10 machine using an SD Adapter for microSD in the computers SD slot
Here’s what I tried:
- Retried procedure
- Checked that the RPi would boot with a fresh RaspberryOS SD card (successful)
- Created image using SD dongle
- Created image using a different SD dongle
- Repeated the above using Ubuntu 20.04
- Checked the microSD card for errors using F3 on ubuntu (successful)
- To show that SD card was good, put RaspberryOS on SD card and booted RPi (successful)
Thus:
I determined that
- it was not the host computer
- it was not the hardware between the host computer and the microSD card
- it was not the Raspberry Pi
- it was not the microSD card
Other than the image itself, I am at a loss as to what is the lacking component.
Your help is appreciated
OSD
ps, the Raspberry Pi imager has options that allow for a preconfigured username password, SSID and password and enabling ssh. This is a good idea.
