# Pi Musicbox won't boot
**URL:** https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732 "2017-07-11T16:55:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Aiden\_J](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Aiden_J)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732/1 "2017-07-11T16:55:50Z")
gives the following after a few seconds of booting up: Kernal Panic-not syncing: VFS: Unable to Mount root fs on unknown-block(179,2)
I am using the latest poi music box software
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### Author:  [@Aiden\_J](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Aiden_J)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732/2 "2017-07-11T16:56:32Z")
whoops “I am using the latest pi music box software”
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### Author:  [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732/3 "2017-07-11T17:35:20Z")
My first guess would be a bad sd card.
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### Author:  [@Aiden\_J](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Aiden_J)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732/4 "2017-07-11T17:48:34Z")
Ok. Thanks! I’ll get a new one and see how it goes…
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### Author:  [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/pi-musicbox-wont-boot/1732/5 "2026-02-19T11:47:17Z")