Posts by advb

Quote from Labaria

Hi, I tried installing this onto my device but I keep getting "can't acces tty".
I have tried all three builds, but I keep getting this message.

Can anyone please help me with this?

Hardware: Sumvision Cyclone X4 (non-bluetooth)

That looks similar to the problem I have with my Venz v3 box, which I detailed at posts #411 and #413 above. I appears that my box has a non standard partitioning of the NAND and Kszaq's install script expects a certain setup to work.

I'm sure it should be possible to format the NAND from the command line using SSH but I don't have that sort of knowledge. Until anyone can suggest a way of doing this, I'm just going to carry on booting from SD card.

Quote from kszaq

advb I am not familiar with V3 partitioning scheme. It's quite possible that they used partition names different than system and data. You should be able to see user-accessible partitions by running blkid. The main issue would be that if they use different partition names, they are not supported by my platform_init script. Please also check cat /proc/cmdline to see if bootloader provides partition names for the system.

kszaq Thanks for the suggestions. This is the output:

OpenELEC:~ # blkid

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"

/dev/mmcblk0: TYPE="minix" PTUUID="00004cbe" PTTYPE="dos"

/dev/bootloader: TYPE="minix" PTUUID="00004cbe" PTTYPE="dos"

/dev/cache: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"

/dev/system: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"

/dev/data: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"

OpenELEC:~ # cat /proc/cmdline

init=/init console=ttyS0,115200n8 no_console_suspend storage=2 cvbsdrv=0 vdaccfg=0xa000 logo=osd1,loaded,0x7900000,720p,full hdmimode=720p cvbsmode=576cvbs androidboot.firstboot=1 hdmitx= mac=00:22:6D:00:7F:0A androidboot.chipid=805 boot=/dev/system disk=/dev/data BOOT_IMAGE=/dev/boot console=tty0 consoleblank=0 scaling_governor=hotplug scaling_min_freq=96000 scaling_max_freq=1488000 systemd.show_status=auto

Does this make any sense to you?

Thank you to for this build. I am now running 8.1.6 from SD card on my Venz V3 box and it seems very solid to date. The manufacturer stopped updating its version of OE with Kodi 15 so its nice to be up to date again!

The only problem that I have is that I can't get it to install to NAND. I suspect that the version of OE supplied by Venz uses non standard partitioning or formatting. So far I have tried:

• Connecting via SSH and running the "installtointernal" gives the error: "Formatting SYSTEM partition...The file /dev/system does not exist and no size was specified". The OpenElec install still runs afterwards.
• Adding .tar update file into OE update folder. The update runs but, when rebooted, the system doesn't load - it drops into the debugging shell and reports "can't access tty: job control turned off".
• Booting into TWRP and trying to install the older LE7 .zip image files. Whichever LE version I try, TWRP fails to complete successfully. The Venz OE .zip image file did work so I know TWRP is functioning normally.

I have checked the "storage" details in System Settings in LE and it only shows the sd card, not the NAND. I've tried DF in SSH and that only appears to show the SD card as well.

I'm not too worried as I can still boot LE from the SD card but I would like to install it to NAND as I won't be using OE/Kodi 15 any more.

Any suggestions anyone? Do I have to create the partitions manually? I'm a noob so don't know how to do this in SSH and wouldn't want to brick the box!

Thanks!