Volumio on Raspberry Pi5, NVMe setup, but failing to even boot from SD initially

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Hi all,

Sorry to make my first post a help and support one, but I am excited to get Volumio running and seem to be stuck and unable to find the answers searching around!

My issue fundamentally is that Volumio, current V3.757 and also V2.777 tried, simply does not seem to boot up.
I am using:
Raspberry Pi5 2GB with 4A power supply
PimoRoni NVMe base
Kingston NV2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 500GB
SanDisk 64GB Endurance Class 10 SD card

However, even at its simplest, of just the Raspberry Pi5 and Power supply with the SD card, I am not getting a boot.
What I do not have is a Micro HDMI cable, so my confirmation of successful boot relies on visibility of the device over the network, however I note that although the on-board LED changes from Red to Green, it does not begin flashing.
When I create the SD card, I am using the Volumio .img file from this official site and selecting a custom image to load from the Raspberry Pi Imager software. In the extracted files from this site are also a .md5 file, which I am not making use of.

I am quite confident of all of the hardware and that the SD card itself if not a problem, because I have done the following with complete success using Raspbian OS:

Boot from Raspbian SD card.
Make the NVMe visible (enable PCIe etc.).
Use Imager from within Rasbian OS to load Rasbian to the NVMe and boot successfully from that memory device with SD card removed.
Of course, I then copied the Volumio .img file to Raspbian OS running on the SD card, so I could use imager within the OS in the same way to load Volumio to NVMe. This appeared successful, with files visibly copied over and validation completing. Still, it does not boot.

Lacking a direct display connection, this is done using Angry IP scanner initially to find the device on my network, it is connected by Ethernet which I can be confident works well since this has all worked with Raspbian. I can then use PuTTy to enable VNC and subsequently use the device with a GUI over RealVNC.
No keyboard is connected either, I don’t expect any of that is an issue for an OS designed to run headless though.

It seems as though I am failing very early on here with Volumio, but feel confident in all my hardware, so hopefully once this initial issue is resolved I can carry on with the project smoothly :crossed_fingers:

Any guidance welcomed!

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the new Raspberry Pi 5 with 2GB of RAM has a new revision of the CPU, it requires a new kernel 6.6.x

please try with the latest beta version

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Thanks Darmur, I got a chance to try it yesterday and it’s all working very well now!

I put Raspbian on the SD card and imaged directly the Beta image v3.779 to the NVMe drive.
All my music has been copied over to that same drive, so the “internal” stage library, I have to say it’s all very slick! Playback of tracks is immediate and seeking is responsive.
Booting takes some time, my guess is this is indexing of 120GB of FLAC files? Or maybe changing my boot order to skip out SD card and go to NVMe first can help.

I’ve had no issues with the setup otherwise, so perhaps the Kingston NV2 500GB drive can be added to the approved NVMe list with the PimoRoni hat?

I also reverted to a handy 2.5A supply without issue, the Raspberry Pi5 CPU is only moderately warm to the touch and I am running the “very high” quality resampling algorithm to resample to 48k. That is because this feeds a MiniDSP MiniSharc board and software resamplers can be a bit higher quality than the on-board ASRC.

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glad it works! enjoy!