Swapping SD card from RPi3 to RPi3B+ = no boot?

weust · March 16, 2018 at 8:57 PM

I got my shiny new RPi 3B+ in yesterday, and tonight I swapped the SD card, but it doesn't seem to boot.

Fearing the board was not ok, I got another SD card and put NOOBS on it, which boots just fine.

LibreELEC on the SD card is updated to 8.2.4, so I was expecting it to just boot up.

Is there something different that makes me start over?

Going to try a fresh install, but moving over my config files (I also use a external database setup) was something I hoped to avoid.

weust · March 16, 2018 at 9:10 PM

New installation does work.

**Klojum** · March 16, 2018 at 9:11 PM Official Post

Did you have any specific overclocking settings or other stuff in the config.txt file?

weust · March 16, 2018 at 9:58 PM

One thing I noticed are the license keys for the GPU hardware decoding. Totally forgot about that, so glad you asked about the config.txt file

The other thing is the "NOOBS Auto-generated Settings" section, with a "hdmi_force_hotplug=1" option.

Other then that I can't see anything that would cause trouble.

I scp'd most of the xml config files over, so I got the majority of setting back.

Just missing the settings that hold stuff like what is on the front page.

Like the left bar only shows Movies and TV shows on the RPi3. But that's a minor thing.

perimore · March 16, 2018 at 10:50 PM

I have a similar issue. I upgraded to 8.2.4 on a Pi2 and moved the card into the 3B+ and it just sits at the multicolour test screen thing.

Any ideas?

**HiassofT** · March 17, 2018 at 2:43 PM

If you are using NOOBS you have to update NOOBS as well.

Unfortunately NOOBS doesn't seem to have an auto-updater so you have to do it manually.

I've posted instructions how to do this here:

so long,

Hias

weust · March 17, 2018 at 8:23 PM

I'll have a look at that. Thanks for the instructions.