Posts by crackulator

crackulator · [9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18 crackulator May 1, 2019 at 8:35 AM

I believe the evidence at this point agrees with you: NAND failure. Pretty strange given that both boxes were working fine on the previous release, with no hint of trouble until I attempted the upgrade, but... must be a difference in how the memory is used by the image.

I tried a number of different combinations on both boxes. For the most part I was able to toothpick to 7.95.3 and then upgrade to 20190226, only running into trouble with 20190424, but then I started to see similar problems even with 20190226.

I installed to SDCARD and am running 20190424 without issue.

False alarm, sorry to cast aspersions on your release. Really appreciate your work.

crackulator · [9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18 crackulator April 30, 2019 at 5:16 PM

I recovered that box to OpenElec, and then did a direct update to the new build, and that also didn't work, this time fell out to a maintenance shell.

I tried the update on a different box (identical, but a second instance, was already running previous LibreElec), same result, dead box.

Could both NANDs have failed? Possible, but doesn't seem likely, they were both nicely working boxes before I applied the update.

Anyone else boldly going where no man has gone before?

crackulator · [9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18 crackulator April 30, 2019 at 8:38 AM

Quote from KOPRajs

The zip file for 7.95.3 is available in the first post in this thread.

Indeed it is. thank you.

I just tried the 20190424 build and it broke my box. Says what appears like it's going to attempt a recovery in 120 seconds, then a blur of messages that increment, like they are a sectors. Looks like I have to start over.

I'd recommend caution...

crackulator · [9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18 crackulator April 28, 2019 at 2:58 AM

Success! What I did was loaded an ancient OpenELEC with these instructions (and files):

Installing OpenELEC (XBMC @ 1080p) on the G-Box MX2 | Matricom – G-Box Android TV Box – Kodi / XBMC Player

With that, I was able to get on the network with Samba and SSH. Used SSH with credentials root/openelec to do:

tune2fs -L LIBREELEC_DISK /dev/data

Then came in through Samba and dropped the tar file for the new LibreElec release

(libreelec-amlogic_mx2.arm-9.0-devel-20190226160004-1bf54d9.tar)

in the Update folder, and rebooted.

Voila!

crackulator · [9.0.0] LibreELEC builds for MX2/G18 crackulator April 28, 2019 at 1:10 AM

I'm trying to duplicate Frink's success on a couple MX2's, but I can't find the zip file for 7.95.3.

Looks like it should be at LibreELEC (Krypton) v7.95.3 BETA – LibreELEC, but I'm not sure which one it is, and all the ones I tried, the link was dead or blocked.

Any suggestions?