I’ve been trying to boot OSMC as an operative system from NOOBS on my Raspberry Pi 2 but unfortunately when the first image of OSMC is displayed the screen immediately blacks out. At first I thought it could be due to some kind of problem with the HDMI but I luckily managed to boot Raspbian and OpenElect, and they are both working extremely fine.
Then, how can I solve the issue and properly boot OSMC?
Thanks for the help.
Are you using NOOBS for any dual-booting purposes or is your system dedicated to OSMC? If dedicated to OSMC then it may be best to forget about NOOBS altogether and go with a native install.
Agree though that if there is indeed a NOOBS issue then this will need fixing as certinly some people out there will need it for dual booting.
What version of NOOBS are you using? Looks like there was a new one released just over a week ago.
Actually I am using it for Multiple-Booting purposes. Any idea on how I might make it work in case is not a NOOBS issue?
Ok, that’s fine, that just means we can’t look at doing a native install to work around the issue for you.
First of all i’d get yourself an up-to-date NOOBS install in case an old version of NOOBS isn’t playing nicely for some reason. The latest version is 1.5.0 and was releases on the 21-11-2015.
Can you also document the steps you are performing to recreate this and i’ll have a go on my Pi2
Then I have the latest version. Just new on the Raspberry World, hehehe.
I downloaded NOOBS LITE 1.5 and followed the proper steps for booting from the SD card on my Raspberry Pi 2. I chose to install Raspbian, OpenElect and OSMC_PI2; I tried to boot at first OSMC but got the problem described. I did the whole process one more time to ensure it was not a problem with the chosen OSMC but indeed, everything I had done was properly done.
Ok, i’ll try that when i get home and see what mine does. Is this on an 8GB SD card?
Hi
I suspect your video settings may be changed by config.txt. I have had a patch for NOOBS since May, but this has not yet been merged by the NOOBS maintainer:
Hold SHIFT or CTRL (I forget which) to get to the NOOBS menu, and edit config.txt of OSMC and set the values from here: osmc/build.sh at master · osmc/osmc · GitHub
Sam
Thanks both, I rebooted everything a third time and it seems to work know. 
Now after having it one time working it went on blackout again.