The [pi5]/[all] section headers in configTxtAppend created duplicate
sections when concatenated with the overlay's base config.txt, which
already ends with [pi5]/[all]. The RPi firmware parser choked on the
duplicate headers, preventing NVMe boot on fresh installs.
Remove the section headers — dtparam and overclock settings now land
under the existing [all] scope from the base config.txt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Config.txt is set correctly at flash time. Upgrades via talosctl
don't override firmware config (overlay writes to wrong path on
SBC layout, which is harmless). Users who need custom config.txt
set it once during initial flash.
- Use configTxtAppend with PCIe Gen 3 + overclock
- Put dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 in [pi5] section
- Remove patch 0003 (SBC overlay upgrade fix) — too risky,
deleted GRUB's BOOTAA64.EFI in v8
- Remove full configTxt replacement mode
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The v8 overlay patch deleted /boot/EFI/ to clean up stale firmware,
but this also removed GRUB's BOOTAA64.EFI, bricking the node.
Fix: keep SBC layout detection (write to /boot/ not /boot/EFI/) but
remove the os.RemoveAll that destroyed GRUB. Stale firmware files in
/boot/EFI/ are harmless.
Re-enable PCIe Gen 3 (dtparam=pciex1_gen=3) and full configTxt mode,
now that the overlay installer correctly writes to the EFI partition
root on SBC layouts.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The PCIe Gen 3 changes (dtparam=pciex1_gen=3, full configTxt
replacement, SBC overlay upgrade fix) caused boot failures during
talosctl upgrade on CM5 nodes. Revert to the pre-Gen3 state:
- configTxtAppend (overclock only) instead of full configTxt replacement
- Remove 0003 overlay patch application (kept in patches/ for future use)
PCIe Gen 3 support will be re-added after root cause analysis.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes in one:
1. SBC overlay upgrade path: the overlay installer was always writing
to /boot/EFI, but on SBC layouts (no BOOT partition) the GRUB code
mounts EFI at /boot. Config.txt and firmware ended up in a stale
/boot/EFI/ subdirectory, invisible to the firmware. The installer
now detects the SBC layout and writes to the correct location.
2. PCIe Gen 3: dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 works on CM5 (the DT overrides
exist), so the custom pcie-gen3.dtbo overlay is unnecessary.
Simplified to just use dtparam in config.txt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The CM5 DTB (bcm2712-rpi-cm5-cm5io.dtb) lacks the pciex1 alias that
the Pi 5 DTB provides, making dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 silently fail.
Add a custom device tree overlay (pcie-gen3.dtbo) that targets
/axi/pcie@1000110000 directly to set max-link-speed = <3>. The overlay
is embedded in the SBC installer and written to /boot/EFI/overlays/
during install/upgrade.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 was being appended after the [all] section,
but RPi firmware requires PCIe dtparams in the [pi5] section.
Switch from configTxtAppend to full configTxt replacement to control
section ordering. Also add dtparam=pciex1 to explicitly enable the
external PCIe link.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds dtparam=pciex1_gen=3 to config.txt overlay. Benchmarked Gen 2 baseline
on all 3 pg nodes showing consistent ~375 MB/s write throughput, bottlenecked
by the Gen 2 x1 lane limit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
