Hi Jeffsony, I think you accidentally responded to an old post from Zach (back in May). The USB Live image he was referring to is the one we provide when you successfully flash our OS image to the USB flash drive. When you boot up your Interceptor Carrier Board with CM4, you should see an option to boot into live mode. There you can use Linux tools to manage the eMMC if you like. But if you do the install successfully to the whole eMMC (use option "mmcblk1: Whole Disk (##.## GB)"), the automated install will partition everything for you and you shouldn't have to do a thing. We've tried to make this as easy as possible. Of course, Zach ran into an issue, but a reinstall fixed things for him. One of these days I will post some videos just to reduce confusion. Please let us know if we can help further.

Hello Jeffsony, Our installed is meant to be installed via the USB flash drive. What software are you using to write our image to the flash drive? Are you using a Windows machine to write the OS to the flash drive? We have seen issues with this from some customers (we've not been able to reproduce it here yet, but several customers have had this problem). I think your boot order is fine. It sees the USB flash drive, but doesn't like its content. That leads me to believe it is a Windows OS host you are writing the flash drive from. Fear not, we'll get this figured out. Everything you are telling me above points to the hardware being just fine.

Glad to hear you are up and running. Please let us know if you have any other questions.

We only enable what is necessary and what is requested. If you have specific options you'd like enabled, you can either post them here or send them to support@axzez.org. We'd be glad to work with you on this and give you an image for validation before we release it officially.

This sounds like a CM4 board issue. For the output, I am most curious about the JMB585 and Realtek checks, but you say they pass, so that means we can talk with those ICs. Do you have a different CM4 you can test with? Anytime I hear HDMI issues, I assume it is a bad CM4 board OR the current board is not seated properly.

Sorry to say, @Shawn Egan, that we won't be making the OS build workflow available right now, but we did post new images, including new "Server" images with no compositor (no Wayfire, just straight to CLI). Hopefully this is something you can build on. If you have specific additions you'd like for us to include, please just let us know.

Hello @ewatkins, we're sorry to hear you are having this issue. I double checked our systems here with the current Desktop and OMV7 OS releases and do not see issues with SATA drives. Can you run (as root) our /usr/sbin/self-test.sh script and share the results with us? sudo su self-test.sh With your drives connected, please. Were you having issues with our previous OS versions?

@Antony Derham, it is my belief that you have a loose connection with the Realtek IC and it was exposed by the move to the new case. I believe this is a manufacturing defect. We'd like to go ahead and replace this board. We'll get one shipped out to you shortly. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We've just released the official images that contain all of the previously mentioned fixes, plus we've updated to the very latest Linux mainline kernel version 6.6.18: https://www.axzez.com/software-downloads The previous test images are nearly identical to we reviewed, tested, and released this evening, except for the newer kernel, some refinements to the kernel build, and improvements to the self-test.sh script contained in the OS image. We really appreciate the feedback from those of you that shared and hope you'll continue to share suggestions, issues, and improvements we can make to the images. Thank you!

We have new images available here for download and I've verified the docker issue is resolved: https://www.axzez.com/forum/interceptor-carrier-board/os-test-images-available We're still working on them, but these are very close to the end result for our next official OS release.

We feel that Debian packages are signed, so it good and acceptable to get from plain http sources. We will use deb.debian.org/debian instead of the ftp.us url, though. Of course, once you have the OS, you may manipulate source.list however you like.

OMV docker is now fixed. Using the same link as above.

There is an issue with docker on the OMV image. We're investigating.

I've reproduce the "flakiness" for OMV, @Attilio Bonaccorso. No need to elaborate for us. I'll get that resolved ASAP.

@Attilio Bonaccorso Thank you for the feedback. When you say "flaky", would you mind elaborating a bit? We want to get this right. Was it an issue specifically with docker? I'll see what the test results were for it on OMV. Regarding your posts in September and October, we did respond to you with updated and verified images that supported Docker at that time. It was before we switched to the new kernel, I believe. I don't see a reply after our last post there, but perhaps you had given up at that point? We want to get this right, of course. We will keep on it until we get it right. Thank you, Attilio.

We do not support a way of doing this with the Interceptor Carrier Board, unfortunately. We do discuss this in the FAQ: https://www.axzez.com/forum/interceptor-carrier-board/frequently-asked-questions#viewer-7pbl2

@Attilio Bonaccorso We have released multiple images in the last year and several of them had docker support. Only recently when we changed to the mainline kernel was this broken again. We have made available images that we are currently testing (see below) that resolve this, plus provide a whole lot more, while still using the latest mainline Linux kernel. If you are using a CM4 lite, with no eMMC, you would have to know what you are doing to use those images by installing the startup on the USB with the rest of the OS on the SATA. Our images provide this. Others out there have instructions on how to do this if you want to do this yourself. Our latest patches apply just fine. If you encounter any hunk failures or context mismatches due to version differences in the Linux kernel, you might need to apply the patch with a fuzz factor. Use the patch command with the --fuzz option to allow for some discrepancies. If you want to share what your process/steps is/are, we'd be glad to offer help. Others are using this without issue. Our patch is based off of the latest kernel. I am sorry to hear that you feel you've wasted money. We provide the OS as a free service. We really want to help customers get the most out of their hardware and we hope we can work with you to get your board running the way you need it. Many customers are not using our OS at all and are doing their own thing. We will continue to provide updates to the OS as people have requests for new features and new kernels. If you want to try our next OS versions that we hope to be posting soon, the beta versions are here: Desktop RPi with kernel 6.6.17: https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/image/desktop-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-customer_requests.img OMV RPi with kernel 6.6.17: https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/image/omv-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-customer_requests.img

@cvertesi please check out this dev branch build for OMV if you are interested. It should meet every requested change you and others had: https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/image/omv-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-customer_requests.img If my testing is successful and code review is approved, this image will be identical to what we release. Thanks again for your patience.

Excellent! Enjoy!

@cvertesi if you are in the mood to test, this version I just built has every fix that everyone in the forums has requested. The co-founder that usually maintains this is out, so I took a stab at it. I verified your https in apt sources is good, raid is good, nfsd support, add ufw (didn't test it) and that the self test is satisfied. I'm having problems with the OMV build (could be related to the updated kernel or to the k3s updates my colleague made, don't know yet). Anyway, here it is. Latest kernel 6.6.17 too. https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/axzez-build/image/desktop-interceptor-raspberrypi-cm4-customer_requests.img This is a branch build of the OS. I'll keep working the OMV issues (tomorrow).