Posts by A200kodi

  • CRT tv Issue

    It seems there is some sort of resolution issue or video card incompatibility, any ideas on how to get LibreElec running smoothly?

    I have the setup connected via 4 pins S-video cable, used in other gaming machines, and even in this same machine via Windows working perfectly.

    The machine is an old toshiba satellite a200:

    Intel Centrino® Duo, Core2 Duo T7250, 2.0Ghz
    2x2 GB DDR2 (667Mhz)
    HDD 200GB 4.200rpm
    DVD Drive SuperMulti Double Layer
    TFT 15,4" WXGA TB (1.280x800)
    ATI Radeon HD2400 896MB HyperMemory (128MB + 768MB)

    the TV

    LOEWE Aconda direct-view 16:9 HDTV monitor

    Screen size: 38" diagonal CRT

    Input formats: 480i, 480p, 1080i

    Vertical scanning frequency: 60Hz

    Horizontal scanning frequency: 31.5-35.5kHz

    Rear inputs: 2 RF, 3 S-video, 3 composite, wideband component (Y-Cr-Cb), VGA/RGB (HD-15), VGA audio (mini-phone), 3 stereo audio

    Front inputs: S-video, composite, stereo audio

    Outputs: composite video, S-video, stereo analog audio, S/PDIF digital audio (coax), RF loop, external speaker, headphones

    Read more at Loewe Aconda Direct view 16:9 HDTV monitor Specifications | Sound & Vision

  • Dual Boot Windows Vista + LibreELEC problems.

    Found some info for bootable usb drives at

    How to repair a SYSLINUX bootable USB drive | Pavel Korotkov's Blog

    • Given a bootable USB drive with Linux OS,
    • It triggers error “Boot error” if you boot from it, (Boot error is exactly my problem)
    • System bootloader is SYSLINUX.

    The apparent fix: (No it did not work for me, but this is the 1st time i have ever use linux of any kind)

    1. Find a Linux OS (I used Ubuntu) and open a terminal, (I used the Gparted live USB, and as already knew the drive i wanted, jumped to step 4)
    2. Plugin your sick USB,
    3. Find it among visible devices: ‘ls -lA /dev/disk/by-id/*usb*’ and record its mounted point name (e.g. /dev/sdb), let’s say USB_MP, (my target is /dev/sda1)
    4. If the drive is mounted, unmount it with command ‘umount USB_MP’ (actually, you need to unmount the partition where your system resides-usually 1-‘umount USB_MP1’). Ignore errors, they just mean the drive is not mounted, (here i did umount /dev/sda1 and it unmounted it but, did not understood some bits, should i also have used command umount /dev/sda11?)
    5. Install syslinux if your OS doesn’t have it (‘sudo apt-get install syslinux’), (This step installed nothing, it said a newer version of syslinux was already installed)
    6. Hit the commands: ‘sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=USB_MP && sudo syslinux USB_MP1’. (here was when i got myself lost mostly due to the USB_MP1 deal stated in step 4 so i did only part of the command sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1, wich gave me the return of /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin not existing basicaly)

    I'm really at a lost here, maybe i'll try sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1 && sudo syslinux /dev/sda11 but this command read somewhat strange, maybe someone with some knowledge in linux can shed some light.

  • Dual Boot Windows Vista + LibreELEC problems.

    Hi, i'm new here, so hello.
    I found my old Tosh. Sat. A200 during xmas and decided to see if it would still work, it does and since it has a x64 based processor i thought i would be a good media center.

    It runs Libre Leia flawlessly on its own, but i need it to run some edition of windows. and its going to be the one that came with the computer new, the vista dvd was in the bag still.

    This is what i did so far, following some instructions i found on the web, or not to say until i got stuck...

    -Burned the Liberelec image to USB, and installed it.

    -Downed, burned and ran the GParted Live usb, resized Storage partition to 8gb, the remaining amount was used to create a new ntfs partition for windows, flagged as boot.

    -Installed Windows Vista onto the newly created partition.

    -Downed and ran EasyBCD 2.4, create a new boot entry, selecting Linux tab / Syslinux wich pull straight away the 500mb partition for Libreelec, click the add button and done.

    1 boot entry for Windows Vista

    1 entry for LibreElec

    Re-started to give is a go and trouble appeared choosing LibreElec gave me the message "Boot Error", after clicking any key it goes back to the boot menu.

    It is the 3rd time i did this, first time i thought i messed up so i simply reinstalled from scratch, second time i really messed up with mbr managers and stuff, and now lets see, just finished the install with the same outcome but im not touching it further until i'm sure what the problem is.

    Anyone has any idea?