Janos Szigetvari

The Trixie-based XFCE image seems to work fine too, so only the Noble-based images seem to be broken.

I can report back that the above mentioned HAT works well well with the Kioxia SSD I have. So this problem very likely has something to do with armbian, and is not hardware related.

All the while the Raspberry PI OS (version September 2025) has booted out of the box on the board itself. I will check it with with the HAT added too.

Hello! I have an RPi5 8GB board that I bought off of AliExpress, along with a Waveshare PoE M.2 HAT+ ( https://www.waveshare.com/poe-m.2-hat-plus-b.htm ) Initially I tried to use the Noble XFCE image, by following the recommended installation procedure via rpi-imager via a USB drive, hoping to install the system to a Toshiba (Kioxia) NVMe drive. The RPI5 was connected to a CrowView Note. What I saw was that the firmware loaded up the necessary files from the USB drive (then later the micro-SD card), and the initramfs loaded up too, then systemd started up, and probably when the screen usually goes blank for a short time (probably switching to KMS), here, the signal completely drops, and apparently nothing happens. (The messages scroll too fast, and then disappear, and I can't make out anything from the screen content.) I tried looking on the network to see whether the RPi5 comes up at all, but no. Since then, I tried to eliminate elements from my setup to see whether that makes any difference: I removed the Waveshare HAT Swtiched to using a micro-SD card instead of the USB thumb drive Tried to boot it without the CrowView Note Tried using the Noble Server image to eliminate any possible problems with the graphical UI but none of these helped. I now have the bare RPi5 with an active heatsink, and it's still not booting properly. What should I try? Should I try to get serial console working so that I at least see the boot messages? Is there an activity LED on the RPI5 where I could at least configure a heartbeat so that I could check whether the OS is alive at all? Since the OS can't be installed, I can't really submit much diagnostic information.

@Werner Thanks, I'm building my image now.

Dear members, I was looking for a Noble Gnome-based image for NanoPi R4S, and only found one that is trunk-based, and had BIG RED letters stamped on it: DO NOT USE FOR PRODUCTION. Is there anything coming in that regard? Will we have a proper Noble Gnome-based release for NanoPi R4S? Thanks!