Bookworm 6.6.y for the uConsole and DevTerm

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463

indeed, this fixed the issue. good suggestion. thank you
edit: after looking at the code i cant explain why its not expanding at all, the commands should work on either emmc and sd cards. strange.

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464

i’m not sure, i tried it on one of my spare cm4s w/emmc and everything worked as it’s suppose to.

465

Updated info in the OP!

bookworm-6-6-y-for-the-uconsole-and-devterm

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466

Tested 6.6.60 on DevTerm with a CM4 (8G Lite). Logo flashes a few times upside down, then eventually screens turns 100% white and it stays there. Is this during FS expansion? I’ve waited around 20 minutes so far. 128G SD Card.

Running on wall power.

467

did you change the overlay in config.txt to work with the devterm?
if not you don’t need to reflash or anything just comment out the uconsole and uncomment the devterm.

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468

I am sorry I didn’t read the instructions carefully. Thanks for the fast reply.

469

No problem, good luck and happy hacking!

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470

I have a bit of software that crashes with Debain 12’s Wayland support. (It should work in Trixie but that’s beside the point.) Is it safe to try and do a switch to X11, or are there Clockwork pi customizations that I will need to consider/rebuild/re-apply?

471

x11 will work, the only thing you’ll have to fix when switching to x11 is screen rotation.

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472

Thanks, I will try :slight_smile:

Edit: It worked smoothly after the switch.

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473

For what it’s worth, after originally getting started with this image on my devterm, I upgraded to debian testing a while ago. Problem-free upgrade and have been happily tracking testing for a few months now.

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474

Just received my CM5 dev kit. Tried to boot my uConsole after installing the CM5, but I couldn’t get any output on the screen.

I just re-flashed my SD Card with the CM4/CM5 bookworm image, and I am currently getting the same results.

Safe to say the CM5 IS NOT a drop-in replacement for the uConsole.

475

Doesn’t that kit come with a CM5 with EMMC? If so you need to flash the EMMC with the image per Raspberry Pis instructions. You cannot use the SD slot with a EMMC CM.

476

Oh wow, you’re super right!

Let me do that and I will get back to you.

477

Just got done flashing the EMMC on the Compute Module itself (thank you for that btw), but I’m still seeing the same results.

Anything else I should try?

478

I’d flash the EMMC with the stock RPi OS and boot it on the IO board to make sure everything works and are flashing it the right way. After everything works reflash the bookworm image and try again connect a monitor if you can too.

479

The flash was successful, I can currently boot to the OS just fine using the Dev board.

Just to be sure though, is there anything else I need to do on the uConsole to boot from the eMMC?

480

Things to try or do:

  • Expand the root fs of the EMMC before you put it in the uConsole.
  • Have a monitor plugged into the uConsole to see if you get any output.
  • Redownload the image.
  • Flash the image without decompressing.
  • Don’t use any custom settings if flashing with RPi imager.

Edit:

  • Make sure you’re using a 2.5amp+ power supply.

If it still don’t work let me know if you’re getting a green light on the power button or a quick screen flash.

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481

So I tried flashing the eMMC with the normal image (Pretty sure I used the lite version before) and I’m still getting no image on the display.

As for the button and the display, I see a solid green LED on the power button, and the display doesn’t seem to turn on? Usually I’m able to tell when it’s on and it’s just not displaying anything, but I’m pretty sure it’s not turning on at all.

482

By normal image you mean the bookworm image from the links in the OP or the official Raspberry Pi image?

Did you get any output from the HDMI?

Do you have a USB ethernet dongle?