Hi all,
I have a new pi3 which I am setting up Libreelec on for a friend. I decided to take advantage of the new boot from USB HDD facility so went through the procedure of installing the Raspbian OS and upgrading to the next build to enable the facility. I then copied over the Libreelec files from an install I did earlier on the pi3 but retained the original bootcode.bin and start.elf files from Raspbian to retain the boot from HDD facility.
Everything works but there is an annoying bug which only allows use of 119MB of the full 1024MB of onboard ram. This is a known bug and there is an updated bootcode.bin for Raspbian available which claims to reveal the full 1024mb. I installed this on the Libreelec boot partition and rebooted - but I am still only seeing 119MB.
This is an unusable system as it quickly enters a swap loop and locks up.
My question is, is this a known bug for Libreelec and is anyone actually looking into it ?
Supposedly if I revert to using an SD card to boot off - this issue goes away, but it seems a bit of shame if Libreelec cannot utilize this useful facility. Is there a Libreelec build which specifically is optimized for running directly off a HDD on a pi3 ?
Stephen
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There is another thread on this. It seems at the moment there is no compatible firmware to make this work on a Libreelec system. If you use the firmware from the next Raspbian build you get a stuck at rainbow result.
Stephen