Greg Berchin  wrote:
>
> seconds. Thinking that the Pi might actually be alive, even though there
> was absolutely no activity on the monitor (it hadn't even come out of
> standby), I typed "sudo shutdown -r now".
>
> That worked! The monitor came out of standby and the Pi rebooted
> normally. At least now I know that the Pi is actually booting.
> Apparently for some reason the HDMI driver is not launching upon initial
> boot, but is launching upon reboot.

Not sure this is relevant,  but I've noticed that a Pi booted without
a monitor connected leaves the HDMI port off. Maybe your Pi didn't
recognize the monitor in the first attempts and did on the successful one.
Why that might be isn't obvious, but trying a different monitor might
shed some, er, light.... 8-)


My $.02

bob prohaska

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