No lights coming on / no boot

Banana Pi BPI-R4/BPI-R3 Mini/BPI-R3/BPI-R64/BPI-R2
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hello,

I just got an used Banana PI BPI-R2 and it won’t boot. No lights are coming on, it’s showing no life.

I’ve tried with three different 12v adapters, nothing came on.

It the board doa?

ta, t.

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hi, have you insert a SDcard with a burned image for bpi-r2 and pressed the powerbutton for 10 seconds?

regards Frank

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power button? doh

https://bananapi.gitbooks.io/banana-pi-bpi-r2-open-source-smart-router/content/bpi-r2-hardware-interface.html

Thanks frank-w. I pressed it for the 10 seconds, and the lights came on.

However, on the next problem – it’s not booting. I’ll make a separate post for that.

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which image do you have (debian,ubuntu,openwrt,…)? how do you burned it? have you a serial-cable (usb2uart)? i guess you have not yet modified kernel, so on ubuntu/debian you have kernel 4.4 and should see output on hdmi (if your monitor/resolution is supported)

how do you think “it’s not booting”? do you know its IP-address? have you tried to ssh to it?

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Thanks for your help frank-w.

What I did was to down the minimal CentOS image from your very helpful site, and now my BPI-R2 is up and running.

I did a yum-update and it’s on the latest version.

Which leads to my next question … which I’ll ask in a new topic.