Compute Module: OSMC installs, then blank screen on first boot

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Hello All,

I’m trying to load OSMC onto the eMMC of the pi compute module. With the compute module seen as usb mass storage device on my laptop I use the OSMC installer tool, choose SD card for install (I believe I read the eMMC is connected via SD lanes on the compute?) and load the latest pi 1/zero

Upon rebooting the compute module attached to a monitor I can see the installer run through its paces and goes to 100%. It reboots and then nothing but a blank screen.

Am I missing a step?

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Probably because target installer uses old SD driver but OSMC uses SDHost. I don’t think this is compatible with CM.

Does dtoverlay=mmc in config.txt help?

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I will try and see if that helps. Thanks Sam.

Is there a recommended method to install OSMC onto the CM?

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That did not help unfortunately Sam.

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I think the Raspberry Pi Wiki has some information on loading an OS to the CM and how to use it as a mass-storage device.

I am not sure the OSMC installer is equipped for this task.

When you say that it did not help, did you edit config.txt post installation?

Sam

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I tried it once pre, and that didn’t work, I also tried it post installation and that didn’t work.

I’ve gone through the wiki and that’s how I was able to get to the point of loading an OS. it just doesn’t seem to want to work.

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Not able to tell what’s going on from this description.

You need to edit config.txt post-installation and need to make sure you do it on the right partition if using anything like NOOBS.

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Ok, I’ll explain the exact details to date:

I plugged the compute module into my laptop with a carrier board. I ran rpiboot to allow the laptop to view it as mass storage. I used the OSMC installer (I did this from a Windows laptop and a Ubuntu laptop) to install an image directly onto the compute module eMMC.
After I ejected the compute module I repowered it up with the OTG power connector and the OSMC install page started and completed to 100%. It reboots and then just a blank screen.

I then took the compute module and set it as mass storage again on a laptop to edit the config.txt file, replacing the dtoverlay=lirc with dtoverlay=mmc and it didn’t help. I tried another time leaving the original dtoverlay=lrc… and adding a second dtoverlay=mmc, that also didn’t work.

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Installed 2015.06-1 instead of latest and OSMC is up and running.

I’ll try again on a newer release in the near future.

Some interesting info here, I’m not sure why the dtoverlay=mmc wasn’t working for me:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=133369&p=934106