NOOBS Lite - "Available 0 MB" - cannot install software

[redhawkuk]

Full description can be found at - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=67449
I have a Pi early rev 1 board, I've been trying to install software using NOOBS Lite using a 8GB Micro SD+adapter.
I have formatted the card according to help instructions but when I come to install software I have Available 0 MB.
I also appear to have a hidden dialogue box which I had to dismiss with the Enter key before enabling PAL mode.
It could be related but since NOOBS is forced to boot up in HDMI only mode I do not know what it reads.
I've tried earlier versions of NOOBS Lite and another SD Card but still the same problem with missing card space.

[ghollingworth]

Once it has got to NOOBS:

1. Press Ctrl-Alt-F2
2. log in username "root" password "raspberry"
3. type "cat /var/run/debug"

Post the error message...

Gordon

[redhawkuk]

Testing if input device is a keyboard "/dev/input/event0"
Keyboard found: "/dev/input/event0"
Board revision is 2
Executing "/usr/sbin/parted --script /dev/mmcblk0 resize 1 8192s 143M"
Default language is "en"
Default keyboard layout is "gb"
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p3 on /settings failed: No such file or directory"
mount: mounting rw on /settings failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting ro on /settings failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting rw on /settings failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting ro on /settings failed: Invalid argument
mount: can't find /settings in /proc/mounts
mount: can't find /settings in /proc/mounts
(the mount stuff repeats for a bit then..)
Network up
mount: can't find /settings in /proc/mounts
Current overscan top 64 bottom 64 left 72 right 72

It looks like something is broken, is there anything I could do perhaps prep the SD card to get NOOBS Lite to run as it should??

[ghollingworth]

OK, return to the command line and do:

parted

parted> resize 1 8192s 143M

And see what it says, can you post the output (even if it all works...)

Gordon

[redhawkuk]

Error: Partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is being used. You must unmount it before you modify it with Parted.

[redhawkuk]

Error: Partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is being used. You must unmount it before you modify it with Parted.

[redhawkuk]

Opps I closed by mistake :|

[ghollingworth]

I assume you accidentally closed it!

Sorry... do:

umount /mnt
umount /settings
parted

parted> p

parted> resize 1 8192s 143M

[redhawkuk]

Okay thanks that appears to done the trick. :)

Does that mean there is a problem with NOOBS Lite not partitioning my memory car correctly??

[ghollingworth]

That's what I was worried about - you didn't post the description of what it said when you did this... I assume there were some warnings / errors when you did the resize...

Did you write them down ?

[redhawkuk]

Hmm something is wrong I gone to install OpenELEC which appeared to work, but when the Pi rebooted it wasn't loading the boot loader.
I inspected the memory card in Windows and the card was empty except for one empty folder: os.
I ran chkdsk and it claims to have found 14 files in lost clusters.

When I ran parted as suggested I remember getting a warning message, it wanted me to convert the file system into fat16.
I'm not particularly sure why though I thought the Pi was capable of handling fat32 it was certainly not mentioned in the NOOBS instructions.

Now I'm going to have to start over lol :(

[ghollingworth]

It's likely that you unplugged the card before sync'ing the disk and therefore trashed the FAT partition...

If it happens again (which I doubt!) please do not repeat this...

I am trying to get the error / warning messages when you do the parted... If I can't get that then this will have been a complete waste of time

[redhawkuk]

(parted) p
Model: SD SA08G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7973MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 4194kB 7970MB 7966MB primary fat32

(parted) resize 1 8192s 143M
WARNING: you are attempting to use the parted to operate on (resize) a file system
(etc)

Error: The FATs don't match. If you don't know what this means, then select cancel, run scandisk on file system, and then come back.

Ignore/Cancel?

[ghollingworth]

Yay... Bug found...

If you've got a linux computer available or disk imager on windows can you copy the first 20 Meg from the card?

dd if=/dev/sda of=file bs=1M count=20

Or something, I'd like to be able to reproduce the effect so andrew can fix it...

Gordon