Posts by malaterre

chewitt the 'tty' parameter is already there in the "run":

$ cat syslinux.cfg
SAY Wait for installer to start or press <TAB> for more options (live, run)
DEFAULT live
TIMEOUT 50
PROMPT 1

LABEL installer
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=0710-1617 installer quiet tty vga=current

LABEL live
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=0710-1617 live quiet tty vga=current

LABEL run
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=0710-1617 disk=UUID=66c36368-97cd-4ba9-979e-b8feea2f3e8c tty portable quiet

For historical reference:

* linux - Missing wlan0 interface for iwl3945 - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

chewitt thanks for the clarification. Only "live" gives me a console after CTRL+ALT+F3. So I'll debug from this read-only system for now. Thanks for your kind help.

So steps are:

1. dd 9.0 Alpha 006 onto USB
2. reboot
3. type 'live'
4. CTRL+ALT+F3

chewitt Just confirmed with current alpha (LibreELEC 9.0 Alpha 006 (Kodi 18 Beta 3)) the combo CTRL+ALT+F3 does not give me a local console. Just a blinking cursor.

Just for historical reference. I could not get it ever work. The cursor was simply blinking (tried F2 and F3). Gave up and I am not trying the alpha release:

LibreELEC (Leia) v8.90.006 ALPHA – LibreELEC

chewitt nevermind I did not pay attention there was also a file ./EFI/BOOT/syslinux.cfg.

sorry for the noise

chewitt I guess I am missing the obvious here is what I have:

$ df /dev/sdb1
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1         524008 220488    303520  43% /media/mathieu/LIBREELEC

and then

$ cat /media/mathieu/LIBREELEC/syslinux.cfg
SAY Wait for installer to start or press <TAB> for more options (live, run)
DEFAULT installer
TIMEOUT 50
PROMPT 1

LABEL installer
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=1304-3842 installer quiet tty vga=current

LABEL live
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=1304-3842 live quiet tty vga=current

LABEL run
KERNEL /KERNEL
APPEND boot=UUID=1304-3842 disk=UUID=f7a323bf-c792-4eb7-b814-325c6a305469 tty portable quiet

chewitt How do I access some kind of shell from the libreelec installation ?

All I could find is:

Opening a terminal on the LibreElec/Kodi computer

and eventually I found:

Access local console

Is there a more detailed answer ? In particular where does this file '/flash/syslinux.conf' live ?

Hi there,

Thanks a lot for this fantastic piece of work. LibreElec works just fine on my RPi2/RPi3 boxes.

I'd like to setup libreelec on a old laptop. After installation it turns out that the network interface is not brought up. I am guessing the wifi driver is missing. If I install Debian/stable on it here is what lspci reveals:

0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
...
Kernel driver in use: iwl3945
Kernel modules: iwl3945

Is there an easy way to fix this ? Or should I recompile the whole LibreElec myself adding the missing wifi driver ?

Sorry I could not find no definite answer (only found: Libreelec does not detect Wi-Fi networks).

Thanks much