Got a raspberry pi zero a few days ago but have had no luck booting any current Raspian lite/full//noobs, Retropi or Recalbox os onto the device. The only Raspian img that booted was from 21/11/2015.
Iv’e tried 6 sd cards, 4 keyboards, 3 plugs/wires but still seem to get a selection of errors on first boot
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Various errors encountered:
unhandled fault: alignment exception internal error: : [#1] ARM
unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address fffffffe
kernal panic not syncing attempting to kill init!
unable to handle kernal NULL pointer at dereference at virtual address
more recent images uses a different type of compression, which I guess your imager on Windows is struggling with. Try etcher, it’s the NKOTB everybody is raving about these days!
I’m sure if you shoot support an email, they’ll be happy to pop a NOOBS card in the post for you… personally I don’t think there is anything wrong with the zero or it wouldn’t boot at all from any image (particularly a fairly old one).
… of course, that won’t solve your issue burning images as you see fit but at least that will entirely rule out it’s (somehow) an issue with the Pi itself.
one thing you can try though, since you have access to a Mac, is uncompress the image with The Unarchiver followed by flashing the resulting .img with dd Utility.
… that is a combo I use daily and can vouch that you should get usable flashed images out of Raspbian and Retropie (and many others).
