How could I modify the SYSTEM in /boot/ partition?

SumavisionQ5 · August 28, 2018 at 5:16 PM

I have read this artitle:kodi - Edit read-only file (in /etc/init.d) or override settings file from /storage directory - Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange

And after I copy SYSTEM, uncompress it, modify it and finally compress it to use again, I just could not boot the LibreELEC. It reads unable to mount /boot/SYSTEM.

So why would that happen? What's wrong?

I just want to modify several files, so I don't want to build the whole image from scratch.

Any easy way to modify the read-only image?

Please tell me, thank you.

**Iridium** · August 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM Official Post

What are you actually trying to achieve? There may be alternatives to modifying the system.

SumavisionQ5 · August 28, 2018 at 11:45 PM

Quote from Iridium

What are you actually trying to achieve? There may be alternatives to modifying the system.

In fact I want to try to update niabi's SX05RE which is based on LibreELEC.

Its frontend, Emulationstation, can only be updated by modifying the SYSTEM.

Could you give me some suggestions, please? Iridium

**vpeter** · August 29, 2018 at 8:31 AM

You can mount bind folder over.

Just copy new folder to (for example) /storage/emulationstation and then mount over

Code

mount -o bind /storage/emulationstation /usr/config/emulationstation

If folders are not correct adjust them appropriately.