As in total freeze up, nothing moved, no ability to power off. Had to turn it off by removing the batteries. It was on mains power at the time. that screenshot shows how it got stuck. just stuck there at 52% with no ability to do anything…
I’m using your Ubuntu file, which I think is the most recent one? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecHw8gCouFYO5DrLd7VHPr-8A_dBfULu/view?usp=drive_link
It’s a shame as it was buttery smooth and really nice to use until this point! LOL
I think unpacking the kernel is unrelated to the crash. The new kernel will be installed but isn’t running until next reboot.
Have you tried again? Are you over clocking the CM5?
No overclocking, and I have a good thermal solution, so it’s not overheating. Tried rebooting multiple times and no joy. I just reflashed Trixie and it’s all working fine! I think I’ll stick to the safety of Debian for now
Ubuntu is just pretty ![]()
Really appreciate your help this afternoon though
I’ll have to check out that image. You can hold the kernel from updates for now. sudo apt-mark hold clockworkpi-kernel
My pleasure, feel free to reach out anytime!
Do any of these images work for the Radxa CM5?
Thanks! I followed up there ![]()
The only Ubuntu I see there is dated Feb 25. Is that the right one?
Yes; the kernel hasn’t been updated for a short time, but the rest of the system can be upgraded using apt(8).
I still can’t make it boot when installed on the NVMe. Trixie boots just fine from the same NVMe so I know the hardware is OK.
Check your fstab. It should be /dev/nvme… or something. Not /dev/mmcblk
My fstab only has two lines.
LABEL=writable / ext4 discard 0 1
LABEL=system-boot /boot/firmware vfat defaults 0 1
Question for the group or @Rex
I have a working Bookworm image on NVME boot (CM5 4gb light with AIO and NVME addons), was looking to recreate a new image using Trixie. For some reason I am unable to boot ANY image from SD card (with NVME removed), I even added the config.txt edits listed in another post. No matter what stock image you have provided, when using SD it will not boot.
Not sure what I am doing wrong, Looking for help.
Did you do the eeprom config edits as outlined in this post.
It’s not something you can do with the machine off or on the SD card.
Yes I added these EEPROM configs (this is what I ment when I said “added config.txt edits”) but after re-reading it I was doing it wrong. That correction did allow me to boot from SD card with a second bootable NVME in the device.
Like before I had the NVME booting to SD worked with no EEPROM-config edits, why didn’t this work with just the SD card in and no NVME?
Not sure the sd only will work with a select few sd cards without the edits
Kali image updated to Kali-2026.2, fully updated available now.

