Raspberry pi zero doesn't boot w libreelec

sbeer · July 27, 2017 at 3:50 PM

hi,

first of all i formated the 16GB sd card before i use it with sd-formater

i slide the sd card in to my sd card slot on my notebook and start the sd card creator, copy LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.0.2.img

when finished i press and slide the sd card out of my notebook sd card slot. and slide and push it into my raspberry pi zero w. sd card slot. apply power into it and nothing happen. have already repeated these procedure twice.

do i do something wrong here? and when i used my original sd card from PiHUT, it's work nicely.

kind regards,

Sacha

**vpeter** · July 27, 2017 at 4:28 PM

Wrote exactly what you did with Creator app. What did you copy? Image? You need to write image to it.

sbeer · July 28, 2017 at 9:49 AM

yes, i copied the image LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.0.2.img.gz

**vpeter** · July 28, 2017 at 9:54 AM

You mean you copied this file to SD card or you wrote it with Creator app (step #4)?

sbeer · July 28, 2017 at 4:11 PM

yeap i've copied the LibreELEC-RPi.arm-8.0.2.img.gz file to the sd cards, using the sd card creator

**vpeter** · July 28, 2017 at 4:16 PM

Confused...

Quote from vpeter

You mean you copied this file to SD card or you wrote it with Creator app (step #4)?

**Iridium** · July 28, 2017 at 6:17 PM Official Post

I've found in Windows you need to eject (Using the windows eject) the SD card after using SD Formater. Re-insert it and then use the LE SD creator program to create the SD card LE SD creator for windows

**chewitt** · August 1, 2017 at 9:36 AM Official Post

You shouldn't need to create things twice (as Iridium describes) but not "ejecting" the SD card before removing will result in an unclean filesystem and Linux frequently refuses to boot from unclean filesystems.