If you ever want to just use the camera the normal way - just power it on with any card that doesn't have the magic lantern firmware. It's also why using a different card worked. This is why powering on without a card was working (your card was booting with factory Canon firmware - not magic lantern). Otherwise (if card isn't present, isn't bootable, or doesn't have a boot file) it will power on the normal way which is to use the Canon in-camera firmware. When the camera powers up, it will check for a memory card, check to see if the card is bootable, and if so, it will boot from the memory card if the memory card has the boot file. What it does is place a firmware file on the memory card and marks the memory card as "bootable". Magic Lantern does not actually replace the in-camera firmware. I'm now beginning to suspect that I just had a bad first attempt at installing 3rd party software on my camera, and it has left a very sour taste in my mouth. I went to bed last night thinking I just distroyed my camera. It seeed almost simultaneaously the camera (card) began to fail the moment I decided to give up on installing ML and live with the firmware Canon provides. I attempted the install process multiple times which included formating the card before each attempt. After pressing the Menu button, I would see the same panels I am used to seeing except the firmware version stated it was an ML version. ML also provided a link to that version.Īll seemed to go well during the install process but after following the instructions to restart the camera, Magic Lantern would never start. I did have to revert back to an older firmware version (from 1.1.2 to 1.1.1) to get ML to install. They may have posted the wrong version to the download link, I don't know. I had clicked on the 60D link multiple times during this entire process. I have given up on installing Magic Lantern. The alternate memory card had nothing but the latest firmware version 1.1.2on it and I installed it as quick as I could. The following morning I had an idea: try a different memory card. I pulled the battery from the camera, and frustrated I went to bed for the night. As soon as I would open the memory card door to insert a memory card, the unit would shut off and would not power back on after the card was inserted. I tried connecting the EOS utility and that did connect but there was no way to reload firmware from that program. I began to panic because it felt like my awesome camera had become a paper weight.Īfter struggling with the unit I discovered I could power it on but only by following the exact steps above and in that order. On my 3rd attempt I noticed the 60D stopped powering on at all. That is, I saw Install Successful dialogs after each install but when I repowered the 60D, Magic Lantern would never fire up. I wanted to load Magic Lantern onto my 60D. My awesome camera was now effectively useless!!!!! Unit will only power on if no memory card is present!!!!!I was freaking out.
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