LE wont boot on acer ES11-1

netbooker · March 8, 2023 at 12:16 PM

I have an old acer ES1-132-COVW and want to convert it into an LE-device. It only has an internal flashstorage (emmc). I have created a x68 USB stick with the LE-Installer for Windows.

It boots without any problem from that stick. But after installing it to the EMMC it says "Default Boot Device Missing or Boot failed". In the boot order i can see the EMMC-Card. Theres no entry for LE.

I think LE its not creating a bootentry there. Ubuntu was the OS before LE and there was an "Linux"-entry in the boot order in the BIOS.

I have something like "GPT Partition Recovery:" and "Clear GPT Partition" in my InsydeH20-BIOS, but have no clue what i can do there. I already cleared and "saved" this GPT Partition but no effect.

Secure-boot is off.

**chewitt** · March 8, 2023 at 3:13 PM

The LE installer installs syslinux as the bootloader and creates two EXT4 partitions in a GPT scheme (1= 512MB and 2 = remaining space). Once in a while we see BIOS that wants to see an MBR scheme with a FAT first partition, or that doesn't like syslinux but works fine with grub (which is what Ubuntu uses) and I'd make an educated guess it's the latter scenario. So boot into Ubuntu on a LiveUSB stick, create the partitions on the emmc storage, install grub and create the required boot/menu entry, and copy the SYSTEM/KERNEL files over to the first partition. That's all our installer does. NB: There are some grub files on our installer USB to crib the menu entry from, as we use grub for systems that need to have a 32-bit boot environment. It seems yours is 64-bit though, and we use syslinux for that.

**mglae** · March 8, 2023 at 4:18 PM

netbooker Looks like the EFI BIOS is requiring an explicit boot entry. The LE installation assumes the BIOS is booting the /EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi by default.

Please follow RE: LibreELEC doesn't start after the first installation to create the entry.

chewitt The installer is always creating a 512MB FAT16 partition.

netbooker · March 9, 2023 at 9:15 AM

I've got it working now...

The manufacter hardcoded EFI paths and Labels on this machine....

I had to set it up like this:

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\EFI\Linux\BOOTX64.efi (Linux)

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Howto:
1. Install LibreELEC with installer.

2. Boot LiveCD (Ubuntu|gparted (smaller))

3. Open Terminal and do fdisk

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fdisk -l

4. Look where EFI partition is. In most case its mmcblk0p1. (On this machines)

5. Mount partition

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sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt

6. cd into it

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cd /mnt/EFI

7. Create Linux folder there: mkdir Linux and go into the folder: cd Linux

8. Copy files (look where your EFI files are)

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sudo cp -r /mnt/EFI/Boot/* .

9. For "Linux"-Option you have to name the bootfile like this "BOOTX64.efi"

10. Reboot and be happy..

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