Comments on: Raspberry Pi day 3: Using the right disk image.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:16:51 +0000

Thanks for this. I was really helpful. I was really worried about the dd: /dev/rdisk1: Invalid argument thing. For all the “for absolute beginners stuff” they have on the Raspberry Pi forums, I do not think it means what they think it means.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:16:28 +0000

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sandisk-Ultra-30MB-SDHC-Card/dp/B000QUUFRM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337109198&sr=8-1

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:12:54 +0000

Hey, I’m pretty much a complete novice,

Ive tried this a few times, when I boot the Rpi I keep getting:
mmc0: Timeout waiting for hardware interrupt.

after reading a few things it sounds like my SD card might not be compatible?

I looked on a site which said that this confirmed compatible

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Wed, 09 May 2012 08:24:37 +0000

Many thanks Eben. I did wonder if that was done to make it play nice with TVs using the composite video out. I used
disable_overscan=1
but your info is most useful!

By: Eben Upton

Eben Upton — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:31:39 +0000

Looks like you need to adjust your overscan settings – we’ve recently pulled in the screen edges to avoid issues with TVs which over-report their resolution. Putting:

overscan_left=-48
overscan_right=-48
overscan_top=-48
overscan_bottom=-48

in /boot/config.txt may help.