Raspberry 5 image won't boot.

[ThomasHej]

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I spend several hours trying to image and re-image the SD card, just to finally start looking for problems with the imagefile itself. I found several sources claiming that the Raspberry 5 / HA OS 14.2 image is faulty and it can't boot and produce the web-page unattended. The solution according the to articles is to find an older image (I used a 12.3 image) and then upgrade after installation.

I can confirm that the image can't boot unattended on a brand new Raspberry 5, and no matter what I tried it was stuck somewhere. Getting the older image (HA 12.3) and flashing it using another tool (Etcher), worked like a charm. Upgrade to 14.2 thereafter also worked.

Please remove the 14.2 image from the list in the Official Raspberry Imager (at least the Raspberry 5 image) so others wont get the impression that HA is broken from the start...

Thomas

URL

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/raspberrypi/

Version

2025.2.1

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