Linux Installer & DDing Rasp 2 Image

[cship]

In response to the suggestions that this may be a hardware issue on my end, I switched to a smaller unbranded 2gb microsd card that I found in an old cell phone. I used both the ubuntu installer and dd'ed the latest xbian pi 2 image that was uploaded 2015-02-28 and is 299.1 MB. Both installation methods worked fine. As soon as the raspberry pi 2 booted up, it went through the installation sequence without any issue.

When I wrote the same image to the new 8gb samsung class 6 microsd that I purchased from amazon, which was recommended by a mod on the raspberry pi forums, the boot up hung at init and the bar ran across the screen for a long time. The first boot installation sequence never activated.

I'm wondering if there might be an issue with the first run script and the large 8gb microsd card because the exact same card runs openelec without any issues whatsoever. Do 8gb+ sd cards work for the staff?

Perhaps the brand new microsd card is broken. I'm not sure how to verify an issue with the microsd so I wrote the newest raspbian image to it to test to see if it runs well and doesn't break. Maybe I got a bogus microsd card from Amazon directly.

Seems like there is no reason to write a shell script to install an image under nix because dding works just fine. Maybe just putting a blurb about that in the installation area would be helpful.