I had to go down the IO board route in order to edit the EEPROM but it worked so would recommend to anyone having trouble - like many others I thought I had a hardware problem because all I had was the green light and no screen flash or anything when turning it on.
I used the bootloader raspberry pi image to reset the EEPROM (this wouldn’t work directly on the uconsole for me, I think some others have had success doing this, guess it is just sd card dependent) then flashed the normal raspberry pi bookworm image with the CM5 on the IO board, and edited the EEPROM as per @Rex ‘s instructions. Flashed 6.12.45 to a big sd card, and reassembled the uconsole and a few long seconds after pressing power everything booted!
Thanks for the help @Rex and to others with similar problems, you probably don’t have a hardware issue, just need to edit that EEPROM!
Finally got it working!! Thanks @backer954 for laying out the steps you took, I followed the same steps. Strangely, the first time I tried, I got a similar initial screen before it immediately shutdown and wouldn’t come back on again. I then started over and tried again, only this time when I loaded up the normal RPI OS image via my IO board, I ran apt update/upgrade before editing the EEPROM. I also deleted and redownloaded Rex’s image just to be safe. Not sure if that’s what did it, but now I’m in business!!
Thanks so much @Rex for all your work on this and for helping out folks in the thread, you are awesome.
if flashing with rpi imager don’t apply any custom settings (user/pass, wifi, host)
a normal first boot will… boot, resize the file system, reboot and boot into the first boot wizard.
I can take a look at it and see about incorporating it tomorrow. I’ll DM you with a new kernel package to test the fix as I don’t have a DevTerm to test. If it works I’ll merge it so it will be in the kernel for future updates.
Oh wow! I must have missed that post from 2022. I never realized the display driver had been fixed for those missing lines.I had just accepted it as part of the quirks of the DevTerm and something that would never be fixed. Cool to see it going into Rex’s awesome builds!
I did a lot of research on this thing since finally getting it haha. I was gonna do it myself for the older kernel but figured it would be better to have it incorporated into this since it is WAY more recent and seems to be more stable overall. Will keep the thread updated and hopefully get some notes together on github once I have everything to my liking.
hello, I’m about to pickup a CM5 to upgrade my uConsole with, am I able to flash this image to the internal storage so I can use the SD card slot for external storage?
