1. What to Do if Your Raspberry Pi 5 Won't Boot As the fifth full generation of Raspberry Pi boards, the Pi 5 is a little more reliable than earlier models.

In Raspberry Pi 4, there's an LED indicator labeled ACT to help guide you through the troubleshooting process. If none of the above fixes rectify your boot error, check the status of the LED lights.

Our Raspberry Pi installation guides for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX covers three different operating systems, so it might be worth trying a friend who uses something else.

Raspberry Pi Foundation is almost ready to deliver a fix for Raspberry Pi 4's lack of support for USB mass storage boot.