Nathan: The procedure you outlined is what I’ve been doing - without any success. However, the boot partition that contains the kernel is not viewable in Windows.
Anthony: Yes, the verify is always successful. I have 2 RPI 3B’s that I have tried. Both work fine when I install my picoreplayer SD card in them. I also have a SD card with raspian installed on it, and that too runs fine. So, I know the RPi’s are good.
Wizardofoz: The ports on the RPi never powerup, as the led error states it can’t find “kernel.img”.
I really think there’s something wrong with the boot partition. I can’t think of another thing to try. I do appreciate your help though.
I’m in my 14 day trial period. But, I’m not going to pay for Roon if I get get a RPi to work.
Try anther RPi … its not hard to see whats going on with an HDMI monitor … if its not getting that far then maybe you have dud SD cards… I personally try to stick with 16GB cards. 8GB will work too.
Good to hear it. In that case then you should be able to download the Roon Bridge software and install it on that I think (using SSH), just as a test. Others here more expert on the Pi can give you the commands.
EDIT: instructions from your own thread first time round last year:
You do seem to have a fundamental SD card programming issue at the moment though. Can you program one with Raspian afresh and see if that works?
Yes, I also have an 8GB SD card. I’ve also been using that card throughout this entire procedure. I get the same “no kernel.img” error with this card also.
I’ve watched some other how-to examples on this and on one, I noticed the roon image was a “.IMG” file, instead of the “.BIN” that I’m downloading now. Is there a way to get the roon image in the IMG format?
I just went and downloaded the standard compressed file in Chrome and Internet Exploder. One by one I flashed each on a Sandisk 32GB and a Kingston 16GB card. I tried both versions on both cards and no joy. I still just get the green led flashing 7 times for the “no kernel.img found” error.
Then as a “sanity check” I flashed the 32GB card with piCorePlayer v5. I inserted it in the RPI and it booted and ran just fine.
Needless to say this is getting beyond frustrating
Is there any other repository I can download from?
OK - 1 step forward.
I had a 3rd RPi 3B+ that was running something else. I tried it with one of RoPiee SD cards and it worked! The only difference between this one and the previous two RPi’s is that this is a newer version of the 3B+. I don’t understand this as the homepage states RoPieee will work with versions 2 & 3.
The Pi bottom left is not a 3B+ – it’s an old 2014 B+ model (it’s printed near the logo). That one uses an ARMv6 chipset. Roon Bridge needs ARM7 or ARMv8 to run – Ropieee as well, most likely.
