[Tero Turtiainen]

I had a working and stable XBian 1.0 Alpha 5 (I think...) setup and I thought I would try the new Beta 2.

I installed it from the image to SD card using dd. I have tried 3 SD cards and 2 RasPies with uhh... quite disasterous results.

Most of the time I get stuck on fs resize. Then when I boot I usually get a recovery console (or what was that, anyway I am shown the motd and root is mounted at some place etc.) I don't have keyboard so I haven't been able to do anything at this point.

Once, with the third SD card I tried, I had set the nosdcardresize option and whoah! Success! XBian booted and XBMC started. I could control it with my remote and at first everything seemed fine. But then I made SSH connection to the RasPi and found that the root file system was mounted read-only. For example running xbian-config outputted lots of the error message about the read-only file system. I thought that maybe reboot will fix this (I am a Linux guy, so I wonder why I decided to use the best method for fixing Windows problems...). Big mistake. Now the system goes to kernel panic at 2 seconds after the boot.

That was the final straw for me this evening after four hours of swapping SD cards, RasPies, trying kernel options etc...

Am I doing something obviously wrong? I have never had this much trouble with any RasPi distribution.