LibreELEC 12 may have bricked my RockPro64?

  • I was a happy LibreELEC 10 user on my RockPro64 for a few years, but decided it was time to update. The in-app updater worked great from 10 -> 11. I had to go through the manual update process for 11 -> 12, as there were no update versions listed in the updater app, I am assuming because of the arm to aarch64 change.

    However ever since I did that my system will not boot. I just get no video output and it seems sshd never comes online. I tried flashing LibreELEC 11 to my sd card, but that didn't work either.

    Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a known problem and if so is there any possible solution?

  • If the board powers up (LED's come on) the device is not bricked (esp. for something booting from SD media). It can have software issues that disrupt boot, but it is not bricked.

    Add ssh to boot params in exlinux.conf to force the SSH daemon to start. Add video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D to stop the kernel defaulting to 4K60 modes the TV might not like. If you want us to do more than blind guess at the issue; attach a serial UART cable and pastebin/share the output from boot.

    NB: You can also try: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…ockpro64.img.gz

  • i have noticed that my rock64 would more easily not function on older TV that have limited resoultion like 1024x600 than other sbc<

    sometime it is solved by fresh installation.

    just an observation, where as devices like pine a64 or rpi3 seem not suffer this problem to degree.