Not starting on my RPi 4

[doobes]

Downloaded image, flashed to a 16 gb micro sd card using Etcher. Insert into the slot and fire it up.

A page full of text emerges with a failure notice at the top that I was unable to copy down before the screen went blank, displayed the time in the middle of the screen for a brief moment and then went unresponsive. No drive activity, bupkiss.

This RPi works fine. I've been running Raspberry OS on it for a couple of weeks.

Suggestions?

[doobes]

Reflashed the sd card and tried again. This is what I'm getting:

Failed to start load kernal modules => in red

See 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service'

Another 1/2 screen of text goes by, a quick flash of the date and time and then blank.

I put the sd card in a usb reader, fired up the RPi with RaspberryOS and did a check of the sd card.
There are two volumes.

In the writable volume there is no file in the volume labelled "systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service". There is no file in the volume that was written to today.

In the system-boot volume there are two files in the System Volume Information folder tht have been written to today: "IndexerVolumeGuid" and "WPSettings.dat" Neither can be read with a text editor.

So, there you have it.

[doobes]

More:

So I deleted the two files referred to above and then shut the RPi down and put the sd card in the boot slot. Starting the RPi, I don't get the error message mentioned above.

Things progress with no errors and the time and date appear with a mouse cursor, but nothing else.

Mouse cursor works, but no other mouse or key action has any effect.

[doobes]

Bupkiss.....

[doobes]

Well. No one around.

[JM-LH]

I am experiencing the same problem. Since this isn't an official release, I suppose the best option would be to trace and and fix ourselves, sadly I don't have the time right now due to Uni deadlines, but maybe I'll have a look later this summer (I really want Elementary on an 8GB Raspi)