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#Linux, #PHP and #Electronics tinkerer with a #DNS obsession. Maker of the #ClusterHAT and a few other Raspberry Pi/Arduino addons.

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I received another batch of 10 CM0 last week. Combining the results from all batches I'm seeing a 25% "failure to boot from eMMC" rate which is less than ideal 😭 .

#cm0 #raspberrypi #raspberrypicm0
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Nothing is shown on a monitor when it should be booting (no rainbow).

It reminded me of a problem I had with a custom CM3 carrier where I didn't have HDMI SDA/SCL pullups but adding "hdmi_ignore_hotplug=1" didn't help here.

I'm not sure what the proper way to enable UART debug is these days […]
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October 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The rpi-imager problem was a red herring, after switching to dd I still can't get a [non-mangled] CM0 dev board to boot.

With the CM0 dev board on the left I can enable RPIBOOT, apply power, run rpiboot, write an image/sync, remove power, disable RPIBOOT, apply […]

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October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Continuing my CM0 fun from last night where I removed the module from the dev board, soldered it to my carrier, reflashed 64-bit Lite RPiOS and it didn't boot, no LED, nothing. Checked the schematic, PCB for shorts, voltages, etc. and couldn't find anything so took […]

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October 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM