[x86-64] Beelink Mini S12 Pro (N100) installation question and HDR question

S1l3nc0r1976 · June 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM

Hi, new to the LE family.

I am using the Beelink Mini S12 Pro (N100)

I have it hooked up with high quality HDMI cable directly to my Samsung 55Q80B, which is connected through ARC with my HW-Q600B Soundbar.

Bought the above device last week, and first had Kodi installed in Windows 11 Pro.

It didn't give me any HDR options, and only regular Passthrough.
Someone suggested I'd try out LE, so I did.

I must say, I am seriously impressed by the LE build!!!
I did a quick CPU Benchmark in Kodi, and it doubles my python scores!

I do have some questions:

I created a USB drive with the Media Creation Tool, and used the latest nightly.
LE seems to be working fine, it's noticeable faster than W11 Pro.
Also, it gave me back most HD Audio formats I was missing, I even got Atmos back!

Something did go wrong during install, or I did something wrong:
I created the install USB on a 10 year old USB drive with 8 GB capacity.
I also have a recently purchased Kingston Datatraveller USB3 512 GB which I wanted to use for LE.
I do need windows on the device too, so I changed the boot order to USB first, and then Windows.
This way me Dual Boot works flawles: want to use LE, make sure USB is plugged in before power on. Want to use W11 Pro, make sure USB is unplugged before power on.
I rebooted the device with both USB drives inserted.

A menu briefly popped up, and I saw it did install something briefly.
I was in the assumption I would get a menu where I could choose on which drive to install LE.
Afterwards I got confirmation installation was done.
Rebooting the device told me LE was installed on the same USB drive as which was created for the purpose of installing.
Also, I get a popup with the 3 installation options (live, run, or install to HDD) every time I boot from that USB drive.
Q: Is it supposed to start that way, or did I screw up the install?
Q2: When I want to run LE from the other drive, what is the best way to get that done?

Q3: How do I check if HDR is working properly, is there something I can check during playback, or somewhere in the settings?

**Da Flex** · June 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM

It's not installed correctly. Do it again, but use Grub2Win:

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LibreELEC Dual Boot

I'm trying to recover I have 2 partitons:

HD(0,7) label BOOT

HD(0,8) label Storage

I tried selecting a Linux and set the partitions, no success

I can not get it to boot libreelec however I get an error message /vmlinuz not found when I select a standard linux and can not figure out how to edit the grub config using grub2win

So I'm reasonable sure I need a customized config, however I've not been able to fine a good example I'm running the latest stable build of libreelec currently and it worked…

egandt

June 9, 2020 at 10:55 PM

S1l3nc0r1976 · June 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM

Thanks, that explains a lot.

I will start over.

Do have one question

Old 8 gb will be the install medium created with the vreation tool.

When Ii boot that, i will get the 3 install options.

What do i have to do to make it install le on the other, new 512 gb datatraveller?

I dont mind the popup i mentioned in my post above, i was just wondering if it could be removed. LE is working perfectly after boot, without the popup it would boot even faster.

I read what you pointed to, i will have a look at that afterwards.

**Da Flex** · June 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM

Quote from S1l3nc0r1976

What do i have to do to make it install le on the other, new 512 gb datatraveller?

If you don't see the preferred target device, install wherever possible, copy the two resulting partitions to target, and change ID's:

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However these will need to be changed, grub2win allows you to get the partition table including BLKID and you can use that to replace the ID's above as needed.

No guarantee that it works, I don't use Windows anymore.

**chewitt** · June 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM

Quote from S1l3nc0r1976

Also, I get a popup with the 3 installation options (live, run, or install to HDD) every time I boot from that USB drive.

Type "run" and it will expand the /storage partition to 100% size for persistent storage and then run from the USB stick. If you do "live" it will boot from USB but the install is not persistent. It defaults to install .. which requires you to pick a target device to install to, which cannot be the USB stick.