I finally received my long awaited uConsole, assembled it, got a cm5 for it with 16 ram and 32 emmc, got a custom ROM on it called bookworm
Booted for a minute then screen went black and never showed anything anymore.
Reflashed the cm5 but nothing happened
How long did you wait? On first boot the system may be expanding the file system to use the entire SD card. This can take a few minutes.
Well over 30 minutes
try it with HDMI to verify the machine is working or not
you have emmc, so just to be clear you flashed the emmc right, not an sd card?
Yup flashed the emmc, it booted up first time onto the desktop setup page thing (sorry I’m new to Linux) and as soon as I touched the trackball to do the setup it went blank and to never show anything anymore, I even reflashed bookworm but nothing changed, I’ll give the HDMI out a shot as mentioned above and report if anything changed
Is it possible that the dimm adapter wasn’t seated properly? (The adapter board that my cm5 clipped into) The side metallic clips don’t quite line up with the dips on the sides of the adapter and it just sits there with them spread out sideways and the lightest touch the whole adapter moves
Do you have some pictures? It’s definitely a possibility.
I’ll share pictures when I get off work (in 6-7 hours)
There, the side metallic clips don’t go into the dips on the module adapter and they’re spread outwards and the board would lift up with the lightest touch
That happened to me you should be able to push it down a bit and it will stop spreading out.
Nope, it bottoms out and springs back up
IIRC, I had to push down on the board and “help” the clips move laterally toward the board into position.
I’m a mechatronics engineer, I’m designing and 3d printing a clip that fixes that, about to test it out. If it’s good I’ll upload it to thingiverse or something similar
It works now! Fixed the eeprom and reflashed it and now it’s working!
Nevertheless, you should make sure that the adapter board is positioned correctly and clicks into place. In my case, the adapter board was slightly too wide (it had been cut out a bit roughly during manufacture), so I filed it down a little. After that, it fitted perfectly.
The triangular piece turns, it holds the adapter board down (in my case it doesn’t click into place) it’s custom made
That keeps it from springing out of the socket and crashing the device, I been tinkering around with it for a while now, it’s stable
looks neat! 
