Magenta TV Stick with S905Y2 don't boot

dile · November 5, 2023 at 10:27 AM

Hello forum,

I have a Magenta TV Stick that is comparable in hardware to the Raxda Zero and on which I would like to install Libreelec.

CPU: S905Y2 / 4x 1.8 GHz / ARM Cortex-A53
GPU: ARM Mali-G31 MP2

I put the box image on a USB stick and then set the meson-g12a-radxa-zero.dtb in the uEnv.ini.

Code

dd if=LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-11.0.3-box.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=fsync

Unfortunately it doesn't boot from the USB stick but goes directly into the Android TV.

However, I can boot from the USB stick if I put Coreelec on there. Booting works with, among other things, the g12a_s905y2_2g.dtb or the g12a_s905y2_radxa_zero.dtb.

Does anyone have a tip for me on how to get Libreelec booted? Or does that not work with the device?

Thank you very much, greetings dile

**chewitt** · November 5, 2023 at 4:54 PM

Currently the u-boot environment on eMMC is configured to look for CE boot files and doesn't find them (as LE files and CE files are not the same) so it falls back to Android. You need to invoke recovery boot to force u-boot into searching for bootscripts on the SD card that tell it what files LE uses. Once that's done it will boot into LE (and not CE). In the event you wanted to switch back to CE you'll need to repeat the recovery boot process so it re-learns which boot files CE requires.

dile · November 6, 2023 at 10:57 AM

Thank you very much. That was actually the problem. Now libreelec boots.

alegatorul · May 10, 2024 at 11:39 AM

Quote from dile

Thank you very much. That was actually the problem. Now libreelec boots.

Hi,

i'm kinda new into those, can you be more specific how did you did it?

like, I have an android stick X95s with the same specs and I need to use only LibreElec on it, but don't know how to set it properly to have only LibreElec on emmc.

Cheers!

**chewitt** · May 10, 2024 at 2:56 PM

LE does not support eMMC install on Android box/stick devices, only specific SBC boards.