Interceptor won't power on

@markbxnet one of the co-founders pointed out it appears that RPi is not seeing the filesystem on the thumb drive. That got me thinking about your comment and another user's comment. He could not get RPi Installer to write our image to a thumb drive on a Windows machine. He ended up switching to a Raspberry Pi device to write it successfully: https://www.axzez.com/forum/main/comment/6239507d355c3f0016385f78

I tried to reproduce this, but could not. It worked fine for me, but I think I've read of others having issues on Windows machines. You could try using Etcher to see if that works. Or WSL on Windows to see if that works (using command line). Also, I use a Mac and have never had issues writing it with a Mac or on Linux.

@Axzez Support Wow. This thing is allergic to Windows. If a USB drive even touches Windows after the image has been written to it won't work. Not sure if it's Windows or the CM4 board causing issues, because I tried RPi Installer, Etcher, Rufus, nothing else worked from Windows.

I ended up creating a USB Linux distro and created the interceptor gz image that way and it worked!!! My Linux skills are super rusty though. Couldn't figure out how to locate the .gz file that I added to the live linux USB to copy over to the bootable USB for the Interceptor/CM4.

That interceptor desktop is super bare bones, but I guess what did I expect, lol. Is there any way to set resolution once in the desktop? The shared monitor I use is 4k, but want to run at 1080p otherwise text is very small, and also very laggy. I intend on installing OMV on it, that was my primary purpose, so I guess I have a lot more learning to do.

Thanks for your help. Going forward I'll make a new thread if any other issues pop up.

@markbxnet I'm sorry I read this, but got distracted and didn't respond. I'm glad you got it figured out. I went back and tried to use our one Windows machine here to write the image and it worked, so I'm wondering if there are certain releases of Windows that we need to test. Can you tell us what version of Windows you are using please?

Yes, the desktop is meant to be pretty and simple. You can hack away at it to add more, but we wanted to provide the minimal needed to work with the board. We like minimal. I'll see if we have any instructions on setting resolution that we can post here, though I realize you have moved on to Raspberry Pi OS now.

I saw your other post regarding OMV and can tell you that the contact we have over at OMV said the same thing (he did not use our minimal image for setting up OMV for himself).