boot=LABEL=LIBREELEC disk=LABEL=STORAGE^ see if changing from UUID to LABEL works in extlinux.conf
Can you try to boot it several times? I saw such message only when I was developing support for it, but not with the latest images. Also, dmesg output would be nice. You can add ssh at the end of extlinux.conf argument list, which will enable ssh.
chewitt this is most likely issue with power settings on PMIC.
Sorry, I just realized that this fails early in boot, where there is no network drivers to load. For reference, you almost correctly edited extlinux.conf, just replace comma with space.
I suppose you don't have serial adapter? That would certainly make it easier to access system even in such state.
However, there is one possibility. Remove quiet from APPEND line in extlinux.conf. It should print much more info, hopefully also error messages. In the mean time, I'll take a look at schematic.
spschneer Please test image from here: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/test/opi3-lts/ If it doesn't work, please follow above request with removing quiet
I actually don't know anything about LE USB SD creator. I always unpack images and write them with dd to SD card under Linux. In any case, image is booting, so it's written correctly.
I just retested above image on fresh SD card and it works fine, so there must be some difference. Can you test some other SD card? What kind of SD card are you using? Another thing to try would be removing quiet console=ttyS0,115200 from extlinux.conf. This should produce additional messages on screen.
EDIT: For some reason, this still doesn't print all messages on screen. From this point on, it's only possible to debug using serial adapter...
As best as I can tell, the LE USB SD creator does the following:
Partitions the SD card properly (512 MB FAT (Active partition), 32 MB Fat (swap space), 14.2 GB Unallocated.Writes the contents of the "OS" onto the Active partition
Do you do anything else when you prepare a SD?
No, that's all.
I saw the nice words you said about the Orange Pi 3 LTS (as well as some other folks), and went ahead and got one (after a minor detour to a Chinese mini-pc that had a few things wrong)....
Mine works pretty well, minus occasional boot hiccup, but reboot mitigate it. Thing is that OrangePi 3 LTS support is pretty new and I'm working on solving all kinks. Your issue is pretty unique and hard to solve since I can't reproduce it.
Is there any "easy" way to set up the serial adapter to do the debugging? I'm not sure what you mean ...
You have to have it first. Check ebay under "uart adapter". Alternatively, you can use some other SBC with 3.3 V UART lines.
I found another possible explanation. Replace sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb with this one: http://jernej.libreelec.tv/tmp/sun50i-h6-orangepi-3-lts.dtb This will lower max. possible SD card speed, which has more chances to work.
If you’re using Windows 10 download the tar, use 7 Zip to unpack it and Win32 Disk Image to write it to SD card. You might want to use SD Formatter to ensure the SD card is spotless before starting though.
It’s amazing how many installations fail to perform as expected with either poorly unpacked image files and/or poorly written images to SD card. The frustrating part is you just don’t know and spend hours making changes to the application. The finger usually points to SD cards as a last resort. Thankfully not in this case.
I've had the motherboard for a long time and I've never experienced those problems that you say. Only at the beginning that I did not have ethernet and it could not be used for LibreElec but thanks to this magnificent team they managed to make gigabite ethernet work.
Now I can use the board without problems and with a stable connection.
The other day they got the wifi to work over USB since my adapter was not compatible. But they still managed to make it work. Too bad it's only 100Mb/s and no more. But hey at least the wifi works that way.
For all this, the only thing left for me is to say THANK YOU for the dedication.
THANKS A LOTThe finger usually points to SD cards as a last resort.
In the past I really had SD cards which caused issues in U-Boot. But in such cases, boot breaks early on. Thankfully, such issues are rare.
Users waste an inordinate amount of time fretting about this or that tool for creating the SD card; and in 99.999999% of cases it's irrelevant to LE use because unlike other distros where it might have influence; we aren't converting a bootable ISO into a bootable USB, we are using an image explicitly designed for SD card boot.
The one thing that can sometimes influence boot and/or help with triaging boot issues is using a really old SD card; one that doesn't support fancy high-speed modes that might not always be supported well or require higher stability on the mmc bus.
