Boot imaged SD card from pidp8i-2026-05-15-trixie.img

[Jon Crowell]

I'ved used the Raspberry Pi Imager v2.0.0 to put the .XZ image on to a 128GB SD card. The system boot's and doesn't start anything just sits at a login.. I've tried pidp8i / edisonDeCastro1968! to log in but not know. 

I'm sure I'm missing something stupid. 

Thanks,

Jon

[Jon Crowell]

The pre-built image does NOT come up running the simulator and the NO lights blinking.   I can log in when I type the PW correctly!  

It's not configured correctly, $ pidp8i is not reconized.    

I download the .IMG file on windows and flashed it onto the SD card using RasberryPI imager and Use Customer.  The board is a Pi 5.     I'm still doing something stupid here.

Thanks,

Jon

[William Cattey]

Hi Jon,

Sorry that you were inconvenienced by stuff not working for you.  Let's see if we can figure out what's gone wrong.

First, let's confirm you've got a good copy.  What do you get when you run md5sum over your file? Here's what I get:

Mac-mini:Downloads wdc$ md5sum pidp8i-2026-04-15-trixie.img.xz
2d9d018dcc99a630fce7741aee5d3260  pidp8i-2026-04-15-trixie.img.xz

Next, what hardware are you running?

Can you also provide the output of:

systemctl --user status pidp8i

That is the service that should bring up pidp8i in all it's glorious blinking lights.

Let's also confirm that the needed services got installed:

ls /etc/systemd/services

Armed with this additional information, I can help.

-Bill

[Jon Crowell]

Hi,  I got a new PI4 and it all worked...   pidp8i-test validated all the LEDS and switches worked.   I don't have another PI5 to see if you single unit was bad or the pre-build failed. 

This was the exact .img that failed on the PI5.   

Happy Pidp-8 with a PI4

Thanks,

Jon