Raspberry Pi wont boot.

[Hounddog]

Hi all. I've been googling around for an answer to this, but nothing I've tried works, so I thought I'd see if you guys have any ideas.

I can't for the life of me get my raspberry pi to boot. The PWR light is solid red, and the ACT light is very faint green, which I gather means it's not even booting. I've tried multiple outets and multiple power cords with the same result. My pi used to work, but then I formatted the SD card for use with something else, and now I can't get it to go again.

I'm putting the image on the card using my arch linux laptop (because it has an integrated SD card reader) with

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sudo dd bs=4M if=<path>/ArchLinuxARM-2014.05-rpi.img of=/dev/mmcblk0')

and then running

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'sync')

Removing and inserting the card into my computer afterwards causes kde to mount recognize two partitions: A 94 MB vfat partition and a 1.7 ext4 partition.

I have the same issue with trying to use raspian (not that I actually want to use it, but it was a test.)

My only thought beyond here is that my pi got damaged in some way and it's the board's fault. Can anyone see if I'm doing anything else wrong?

[crashmaster]

What you've done so far looks good for me. At first I would try another sdcard.

In some rare cases I've heard that the contacts of the sdcard slot were not pressed hard enough to the card contacts. Inserting together with the card a suitable thin carton blank should help.

[Hounddog]

I will try another card. I am doubtful that that is the cause because my laptop recognizes it correctly, but it's good to check.

[sdjf]

Have you tried running badblocks on the card?