Coowell V5 Libreelec NAND install failed (SOLVED)

Tim_Taylor,

As I wrote in my first post

I use use the card slot (the only one) so I can play media from the card.

But this is not possible if LE is installed on the card

Greetings Herman

Hello Tim_Taylor,

It's not possible to play media from the usb stick or HDD, the controller is taking this slot.(the coowell V5 have no Bluetooth no IR control)

The media I will take with me occupy's more than the available space left on the LE cart.

The place where I use the stick has no internet connection and no computer is available

So the options you give are not usable for me.

Greetings Herman

Hello kszaq,

after running installtointernal and the system reboots the Coowell splashscreen is not displayed anymore

And the following tekst is displayed

*** Error in mount_flash: mount_common: Could not mount LABEL;=LIBREELEC ***

### Starting debugging shell ... type exit to quit ###

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

when I type exit

the libreelec splash screen is displayed and after a few seconds

the same tekst is displayed

*** Error in mount_flash: mount_common: Could not mount LABEL;=LIBREELEC ***

### Starting debugging shell ... type exit to quit ###

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

then after a minute or so the screen go's black and later the following tekst is displayed

*** Error in prepare_sysroot: mount_common: could not mount /flash/SYSTEM ***

### Starting debugging shell ... type exit to quit ###

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

when I type exit

the following tekst is displayed

mount: mounting /flash on /sysroot/flash failed: No such file or directory

mount: mounting /storage on /sysroot/storage failed: No such file or directory

*** Error in prepare_sysroot: final_check: Could not find systemd! ***

### Starting debugging shell ... type exit to quit ###

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off

when i type exit more than a screen full of error message's are display'd containing some tekst and A lot of hex codes

When I use your installtointernal_test20171231

the screen remains black

I hope you can use this info?

Greetings Herman

Hello kszaq

the are the result from your installtointernal

I have attached the backup device tree

dtb20180102120517.zip

LibreELEC:~ # dd if=/flash/dtb.img of=/sys/class/dtb/nfdtb bs=256k count=1

0+1 records in

0+1 records out

40695 bytes (39.7KB) copied, 0.988845 seconds, 40.2KB/s

LibreELEC:~ #

LibreELEC:~ # ./installtointernal_test20171231

This script will erase BOOT, SYSTEM, DATA and DTB on your device

and install LE that you booted from SD card/USB drive.

It will create a backup of device tree and recovery partition on your boot media.

The script does not have any safeguards!

Type "yes" if you know what you are doing or anything else to exit: yes

Backing up device tree...done.

Backing up recovery partition...done.

Formatting SYSTEM partition.../dev/system contains a ext4 file system

e2fsck 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)

/dev/system: clean, 11/98304 files, 15524/393216 blocks

done.

Writing kernel image...done.

Copying SYSTEM files...done.

Copying remote.conf...done.

Writing device tree image...done.

Formatting DATA partition...done.

Do you want to copy your user data to internal data partition? [Y/n] n

All done!

WARNING: If your internal memory layout is different from standard Amlogic, you have to perform this operation again!

Your system will continue booting from SD/USB until you remove it.

Would you like to reboot now [y/N]? y

Hello kszaq,

Yes your assumption is correct.

the steps I took are

just to be clear I have installed a fresh copy of coowell android

Made sure this works ok

booted from card (containing LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2-8.2.2.2)

replaced the DTB with gxl_p212_1g_nand.dtb renamed as dtb.img

open putty did:

1. wget installtointernal_test20171231
2. chmod +x installtointernal_test20171231
3. dd if=/flash/dtb.img of=/sys/class/dtb/nfdtb bs=256k count=1
4. ./installtointernal_test20171231
5. result only black screen

even after rebooting LE and run your installtointernal again no success.

to be sure when must I remove the card when rebooting?

Please take your time.

I am glad for your help

Greetings Herman

Hello kszaq,

I do not know if it is usefull to you but I have made A backup of my android dtb file

Greetings Hermandtb.img van coowellv5.gz.zip

Hallo kszaq

This was the file I have used

But to be sure I have taken the file from your last post this time

But the Coowell stil do not boot from internal

I took the following steps to install LE

clean install Coowoll V5 android 6 using AMBurning tool

sd card formatted and put install of LE s905.arm-8.2-8.2.2.2 on this card

replaced dtb.img with new one from your last download

started LE

Configured SSH reboot LE

Connected to LE using Putty

get the installtointernal from your post

dd if=/flash/dtb.img of=/sys/class/dtb/nfdtb bs=256k count=1

wget installtointernal_test20171231

chmod +x installtointernal_test20171231

./installtointernal_test20171231

answer yes

answer n to copy user data

let device reboot

Coowell splashscreen has gone

LE booted from card

run ./installtointernal_test20171231

answer yes

answer n to copy user data

let device reboot

shut down device

removed card

power device on

only black screen

Greetings Herman

Hello Kszaq and others,

I finally have installed A version of LE to NAND

But it is A old version

These are the specs of the system

CPU AArch64 Processor rev 4 (aarch64)

Hardware amlogic

Revision 020a

kodi16.1

compiled Nov 6 2016

LibreELEC (COMMUNITY)

VERSION 7.02.009

ARCH S905.AARCH64

Can I now upgrade this version to the latest version

The version I have now running works ok but some add ons like uitzending gemist needs A new version of KODI.

But I can now use the card for movies and other media

Greetings Herman

I have attached the DTB file used and the backup

I hope Zszaq wil now have a clue what was wrong