Re: Just got a Pi1B. What can you actually do with it these days?

Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

While I'm sure that's sometimes the case, I don't think that's what's
happening here.  The SD card itself is fine - no read/write errors, no
long pauses - but the filesystem is broken.  Which is to be expected
if it wasn't properly unmounted, but for some reason the automatic
fsck-and-reboot mechanism in PiOS doesn't seem to work.  I end up
having to pull the SD, plug it into another machine, fsck it (both the
FAT and the ext4), put it back into the Pi and then it boots.
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If I don't do that and I have video attached to the Pi (ie I have
already pulled the machine to connect to a monitor) the boot stalls
somewhere but without a clear log as to why.
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I also have this with a USB SSD, so I don't think it's a hardware
problem.  (although that one runs Ubuntu, maybe it's not so good at
fsck-and-reboot?)

 I don’t cut power to my Pis regularly but when we’ve had power cuts
here, they’ve come back cleanly as far as I remember.
 

Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS are both Debian variants, so a shared
software issue is plausible. Saying anything beyond that would be
guesswork though.