Installtointernal failing

renzz · September 27, 2017 at 10:45 AM

I've just bought two new S905X boxes (SMBOX 2), and they work fine with 8.1.9 when I boot from an SD card. However, I want to install to internal (I will never need to run Android) but when I run the 'Installtointernal' command I get

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Formatting SYSTEM partition...The file /dev/system does not exist and no size was specified.

Indeed, there is no system folder under /dev:

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LibreELEC-Glor1:~ # ls /dev
amaudio             display             mem                 tty15               tty42               tv
amaudio_ctl         efuse               mmcblk0             tty16               tty43               ubi_ctrl
amaudio_utils       esm_rx              mmcblk0p1           tty17               tty44               uhid
amhdmitx0           fb0                 mmcblk0p2           tty18               tty45               uinput
amremote            fb1                 mqueue              tty19               tty46               uio0
amstream_abuf       fd                  net                 tty2                tty47               unifykeys
amstream_hevc       full                network_latency     tty20               tty48               urandom
amstream_mpps       fuse                network_throughput  tty21               tty49               vcs
amstream_mpts       ge2d                null                tty22               tty5                vcs1
amstream_rm         gpio_keyboard       ppmgr               tty23               tty50               vcs2
amstream_sub        hidraw0             ppp                 tty24               tty51               vcs3
amstream_sub_read   hidraw1             ptmx                tty25               tty52               vcs4
amstream_userdata   hwrng               pts                 tty26               tty53               vcs5
amstream_vbuf       i2c-0               random              tty27               tty54               vcs6
amsubtitle          initctl             rfkill              tty28               tty55               vcsa
amvecm              input               rtc                 tty29               tty56               vcsa1
amvideo             ion                 rtc0                tty3                tty57               vcsa2
amvideo_poll        kmem                shm                 tty30               tty58               vcsa3
amvideocap0         kmsg                snd                 tty31               tty59               vcsa4
aocec               log                 stderr              tty32               tty6                vcsa5
audiodsp0           loop-control        stdin               tty33               tty60               vcsa6
autofs              loop0               stdout              tty34               tty61               vdin0
block               loop1               tty                 tty35               tty62               vdin1
btrfs-control       loop2               tty0                tty36               tty63               video10
bus                 loop3               tty1                tty37               tty7                wifi_power
char                loop4               tty10               tty38               tty8                zero
console             loop5               tty11               tty39               tty9
cpu_dma_latency     loop6               tty12               tty4                ttyS0
di0                 loop7               tty13               tty40               ttyS1
disk                mali                tty14               tty41               ttyprintk

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I've tried both the standard DTB file (gxl_p212_1g.dtb) and the alternative which the instructions say to use if libreelec can't see the internal memory (gxl_p212_1g_nand.dtb) but I get the same error.

What am I missing here?

Thanks

Tim_Taylor · September 27, 2017 at 11:39 AM

[HOWTO + FAQ] Install community builds on S905/S905X/S912 device

CAUTION: If your box has a non-standard partition layout, you will see an error when trying to boot from internal memory for the first time. To solve it, you need to boot one more time from SD card and run installtointernal again.

renzz · September 27, 2017 at 11:53 AM

Thanks, but I've already tried that. It fails immediately after asking you to type 'yes' to confirm you want to do it, and I have tried it multiple times.

**kszaq** · September 27, 2017 at 12:17 PM

renzz Have you renamed device tree to dtb.img?

renzz · September 27, 2017 at 12:30 PM

kszaq Yes, I have. I've just deleted dtb.img, re-copied gxl_p212_1g_nand.dtb and renamed to dtb.img again just in case I'd done it wrong but I still get the same error.

I'm no Linux expert but the blkid command doesn't show a partition for /dev/system which I think I should have (going by your post on how to use internal storage while booting from SD)

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/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="df3b6172" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="LIBREELEC" UUID="42C4-ECBA" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="df3b6172-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="LIBREELEC_DISK" UUID="ca4b8b63-b5f9-4f1d-913a-41343a714d98" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="df3b6172-02"

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havhav · September 28, 2017 at 3:15 PM

I have the same problem with this tv Box (SMBOX2)

**kszaq** · September 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM

Please post dmesg | paste collected immediately after a fresh boot.

renzz · September 28, 2017 at 4:32 PM

Here you go..

faBP

**kszaq** · September 28, 2017 at 4:42 PM

Thank you. I can see that both NAND and eMMC drivers fail to detect internal memory.

Are you able to provide dmesg from Android to see which one is working there?

renzz · September 28, 2017 at 4:49 PM

Here you go, done using adb

**kszaq** · September 28, 2017 at 6:50 PM

renzz Please update (from any 8.2.x build) to this test build and check if internal memory is visible now:

LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2-devel-20170928191758-r26293-g1f01d0d.tar

Please use one of "_nand" device trees.

havhav · September 28, 2017 at 8:14 PM

kszaq

LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2-devel-20170928191758-r26293-g1f01d0d.tar + gxl_p212_1g_nand.dtb

Libreelec dmesg.txt

**kszaq** · September 28, 2017 at 8:34 PM

I'm afraid there is no support for your NAND chip in Amlogic kernel source.

Your chip is F revision 16nm NAND 8GiB H27UCG8T2FTR

List of devices supported by kernel: linux-amlogic-le/id_table.c at amlogic-3.14-nougat · kszaq/linux-amlogic-le · GitHub

I wasn't able to find any update for this file.

renzz · September 28, 2017 at 9:35 PM

Just tried this and it still cannot see internal memory, so I expect I have the same chip as havhav

YiGK

Shame this doesn't work but I guess maybe amlogic will support it in future kernel builds.

Thanks kszaq for your help in diagnosing this.

oldaptvtester · November 15, 2017 at 9:39 PM

Hello,

First thanks kszaq for your time and hard work! Some year ago, I buy a beelinq mxq s85 and all great with this one. Time have change, and now, we don't really know what we are buying. I buy a box for a friend ''MXQ PRO 4K'' that have ''S905XQ_V1.0 - 2016.08.11'' on board. Flash is ''H27UCG8T2ETR'' on chip and is on the amlogic ''amlogic-3.14-nougat'' driver list you posted.

When I'm trying to ''installtointernal'' because all great on SD card, I got the same problem as 1st post have:

Formatting SYSTEM partition...The file /dev/system does not exist and no size was specified.

Sometime, when I tested ''installtointernal'' with another devices tree, it install but the 4 usb port doesn't work.

I don't remember the original OS version of android (I have a backup that I'm a little afraid to refresh) it have because I was hurry to remove this fuc.... os......I know, I should choose the device tree for s905x (gxl dtb) (if it is according to what is written on board (S905XQ_V1.0) but it's limited to P212xxxx.dtb. I suspect that the original android wasn't at P212 but not have the knowledge to tell...

I tried different dtb.img with many libreelec version, thoses working are ''gxbb_p200_1G_mxq_pro_4k.dtb'' and ''gxl_p212_1g.dtb'' with all usb working when OS on SD card.

It could be so easy to go with jtag interface to put whatever u-boot and app we like to write flash without to be afraid of brick. I think that I should send a unit to usbbdm (usbjtag._com)...jtag pin are present on the board (just not sure if enabled). It could be my ''little'' contribution...

attachement is a fresh reboot from internal....

Thanks for your time...

Good day !

**kszaq** · November 15, 2017 at 9:45 PM

oldaptvtester Have you tried "gxl_p212_1g_nand.dtb" device tree?

oldaptvtester · November 15, 2017 at 9:47 PM

yes tried with many libreelec version, no boot with this one

oldaptvtester · November 15, 2017 at 10:03 PM

I send you a coffee mr, no mater if you could help on this...you already help so many people and me too (first question because forum answer all my question until now) !

Could it be possible to ssh and manually copy directory from sd card ? It's already libreelec on nand or whatever I do, I will have this usb problem ?