Hey everyone,
I'm having an issue with my Raspberry Pi 5 8GB - during boot, the green LED blinks 9 times and then nothing happens. The system won't boot further.
Here's what led to this: I was using a new Raspberry Pi 5 and installed Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit on it. The system booted successfully. Then I copied the SD card to an NVMe drive, went into raspi-config, and set the boot priority to NVMe. After that, the system seemed to prompt me to update the pieeprom, and I just agreed without really thinking about it. The system rebooted and now I'm getting the 9 green LED blinks.
What I've tried so far: I attempted to restore the bootloader and boot from the SD card. I prepared a fresh card using Pi Imager, tried different SD cards, a USB drive, and fresh Pi OS images. Same result every time. When restoring the bootloader, the green LED behaves correctly - it stays solid for a few seconds, then switches to short continuous blinking. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a monitor to connect right now.
Can anyone help me figure out if this is fixable or if it might be a hardware failure?
Thanks in advance!
I'm having an issue with my Raspberry Pi 5 8GB - during boot, the green LED blinks 9 times and then nothing happens. The system won't boot further.
Here's what led to this: I was using a new Raspberry Pi 5 and installed Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit on it. The system booted successfully. Then I copied the SD card to an NVMe drive, went into raspi-config, and set the boot priority to NVMe. After that, the system seemed to prompt me to update the pieeprom, and I just agreed without really thinking about it. The system rebooted and now I'm getting the 9 green LED blinks.
What I've tried so far: I attempted to restore the bootloader and boot from the SD card. I prepared a fresh card using Pi Imager, tried different SD cards, a USB drive, and fresh Pi OS images. Same result every time. When restoring the bootloader, the green LED behaves correctly - it stays solid for a few seconds, then switches to short continuous blinking. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a monitor to connect right now.
Can anyone help me figure out if this is fixable or if it might be a hardware failure?
Thanks in advance!
Statistics: Posted by fr00st — Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:16 am