Pi 5 does not boot with fresh image of 8.2

[jumblinjim]

Apologies if this issue has already been posted/addressed elsewhere. I didn't see it.

I have a brand new Pi 5 (1-Gig). I loaded FPP 8.2 from Raspberry Pi Imager. When I boot it begins the sequence (green LED lights flash). I have HDMI plugged in and I begin to see the boot sequence on screen, but seconds later the LED turns solid red, and the screen goes black. It's fast enough I can't read what it may be saying on screen regarding a potential issue.

Is this a known problem/incompatibility? Or, maybe there's a known fix/work around?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Jim

[JonD]

A few have reported issues with Raspberry Pi Imager.  Try using a different product.

Installation Instructions
https://falconchristmas.github.io/FPP_Manual.pdf#%5B%7B%22num%22%3A963%2C%22gen%22%3A0%7D%2C%7B%22name%22%3A%22XYZ%22%7D%2C125.8%2C124.839%2C0%5D

Imager Products
https://etcher.balena.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotnetdiskimager/

[k6ccc]

Agreed, don't use the Raspberry Pi imager - it's adds stuff that is nice if you are going to be running a "normal" Raspberry Pi, but seems to cause problems for FPP.  I have used both the imagers that JonD linked with FPP - currently use DotNetDiskImager.

[jumblinjim]

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll try that tonight and report back.

[jumblinjim]

Well, I'm still struggling... Some additional notes:

1.      Tried to image using Balena Etcher ... blinks green for a moment and then solid red
2.      Tried to image using DotNetDiskImager ...  blinks green for a moment and then solid red
3.      Tried using older 32-bit DiskImager on a Win10 machine ...  blinks green for a moment and then solid red
4.      I notice when I remove the SD card after boot attempt from Pi5 that the SD card has been modified and split into two partitions with a third unallocated space.
5.      I tried using the Raspberry Pi Misc Utility to change the boot order to SD Card first. That had no impact. A fresh FPP 8.2 image on a single partition is then chopped up into sperate partitions again after booting in the Pi5

Anybody have additional suggestions?

Thanks,
Jim

[breese]

Try this tool to format the SD card...
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

[JonD]

At one time SanDisk recommended to only use the above sdcard.org utility to format the cards.  Try formatting with the above utility, use either of the imagers I mentioned above, and if that does not resolve, try another SD card.  Amazon and others are known to sell counterfeit cards on occasion.  It also seems like I saw somewhere that certain SD cards that worked with 7.5 no longer work with 8.0.  Something with the newer drivers.  What type of SD card is it?     

https://github.com/FalconChristmas/fpp/issues/1959