Can't get 7.0.1 to work on RPi2

Hi

Let me just state I am not new to Raspberry Pi nor am I new to Linux OSes and the whole HomeTheatrePC. I had a PC running my TV back in the days of Pentium II.

But I am banging my head on the wall here...

I d/l the img for LibreELEC 7.0.1 for ARM7 (RPi2 and RPi3 build).

I unzipped it so that I had a ready to burn .img file and I used dd to burn the image. (I am running Ubuntu on my Desktop).

Everything seems to have gone well, except when I stick it in my Pi2 and turn on the power. I just get a colour gamut on the screen. None of the indicator lights turn on, no bootup nothing. Tried waiting half an hour and still nothing.

So I tried to burn it again, same. Tried to burn Raspbian and it boots fine. Tried LibreELEC again, nada.

Am I missing something?

I tried inspecting the SD card and there is a 500+MB partition that is MSDOSFAT, and has a bunch of files, then there is a 32MB partition that is EXT4 that has a file in it called resizeme

Any advice will help, or am I doing something really wrong here...?

Karl

Hmm... I am sure when I bought this Pi it was a Pi2... but let me try the Pi1 image, because the same SD card works with other image files.

Will try tonight and revert feedback.

Quote from gdachs

Maybe you didn't understand DaVu. If it uses a SD card it is no RPi2 and has never been one. If it uses a microSD card it can't be a RPi1.

Gerald

Actually I did understand him, I think you misread me reply. I thought it was a Pi2... I was mistaken. I thought the Pi2 used SD and that they only changed to uSD with Pi3. I apparently made a mistake.. tried the Pi1 image, as I said I would, and it worked. So there you go... it was a simple mistake of thinking I had a different model. All this time I was under the impression I had a Pi2 because when I bought it at the shop I asked them for a Pi2 and didn't bother to check the spec. Oh well, at least it's working now.