Uconsole cm4 lite with rpi emmc cm4

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@jhaggard What specs did you chose ?

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uConsole Kit RPI-CM4 Lite
SKU: UCCM4BN
Color: Matte Black
Type: WIFI+4G cellular
Core: Raspberry Pi CM4 104000 lite

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@jhaggard oh, you chose the full package, based on the information from shipping related topics, it is very possible that the delay will be over 6 months.

Check out the messages in this topic Update: uConsole shipping related - #3048 by doctorlumpy

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lol, thanks. I guess it will get here when it gets here.

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The wait is worth it.

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you can write Alex and ask him to refund core (70$),
seems like it increase delivery date drastically and you can buy module locally later (+ you can buy 8gb module / potentially cm5)

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So I finally got the carrier card and imaged the cm4 card. It successfully booted and works. I finally got it working again. I had to let it charge first. So thanks for all the help everyone. If I can help others avoid some pitfalls. I noticed wifi stopped working after updates. But worked that out in raspi-config.

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Yes. I got my emmc cm4 flashed with USB on a separate piduino board. It is the cm4 that uses the uSD pins for the emmc interface and not the uconsole that is to blame. I ended up buying a new cm4 because I wanted to play with different distros on uSD cards.
It would be nice if uconsole allowed USB boot but as others mentioned it canā€™t Because Reasons

Jv

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Has any1 managed to get the uSD card working in tandem with the eMMC?
I was thinking about using it as a ā€œpermanently attached pendriveā€ :smiley:

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I donā€™t think it is physically possible without hardware modification. As I understand it (and the documentation and schematics support this) the connections on the CM4 package that would go to output pins that would then connect to the uSD on a lite CM4 board are physical connected to the eMMC instead.

The only way I can see to use the uSD with an eMMC would be to connect USB/uSD interface circuity between the uSD hardware and a spare USB. This would be very tricky! It would be much simpler to use one of the USB expansion cards and attach your pendrive there

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