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RTC -EREMOTEIO Error

Symptom: dmesg shows rtc-pcf85063 ...: error -EREMOTEIO: RTC chip is not present.

This is expected and harmless on FIBER Lite — it means the Configure Hardware step was followed using the FIBER (CM4) tab's config.txt block instead of the FIBER Lite tab, including the external RTC overlay line. Remove any dtoverlay=i2c-rtc,... line from /boot/firmware/config.txt and reboot; the Raspberry Pi 5's native built-in RTC (rtc0) does not need it.