Posts by tokul

Quote from CSC_

What would be the fix here, then?

To my knowledge Raspberry Pis are popular HTPCs with LibreELEC, same with NUCs. Those both utilize NVMe drives.

Samsung EVO 970 250GB nvme supports only 512 sector size.

1TB WD Blue and Black nvme came with 512 sector default, but can be switched to 4096. I am not in the mood of destroying data on those two to test how libreelec setup works on 4096 sector size.

1TB WD Red and Green SSDs support only 512 sector.

Archlinux got page about sector sizes and tells commands that show your drive capabilities

Advanced Format - ArchWiki

Maybe check your nvme sector size options.

Quote from chewitt

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/dev/nvme0n1p1: unsupported sectors size

(as before) the installer fails to install syslinux to the NVME drive and no bootloader = no boot.

If you have a standard non-fancy drive around you can see if that works (to isolate the issue to NVME vs SATA) but it's likely due to some oddity with NVME drive firmware. I'm unsure what the solution/workaround is with syslinux so install grub to the (otherwise fine) nvme drive instead of syslinux and see what happens.

Google reports there are 387,000 results for "install grub bootloader" so plenty of things to read.

nmve (Toshiba XG3) got 4k sector size. Based on internet search syslinux 6.03 supports 4k sector size, but its official installers don't.

SSD probably also on 4k sectors.

Quote from CSC_

Ubuntu booted from a live USB.. but why wouldn't it? LibreELEC also works from a live USB but why would want it on some slow and clunky external drive hogging up a USB slot instead of my fast and internal NVMe? I want to put LibreELEC there.

I have no idea how you do any of that since you didn't really give any instructions and ChatGPT keeps malfunctioning so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing.

You might throw insults at some things. Throwing insults at people normally does not help in getting answers.

Ubuntu live CD/USB allows you to install OS on disk and verify that your laptop can boot generic Linux OS.

People are trying to understand your setup while trying to guess what hardware you are using with you giving as little as possible.

Secure boot tends to work with Windows, but it is highly likely to break with Linux. Keep it off with Linux.

MSI GF63/75 manuals show that they support both UEFI and Legacy boots. Change to legacy boot. Make sure that you have nvme and ssd devices listed in boot device list. Both laptops have manual page telling how to change boot mode. If your model is different, BIOS options tend to be similar for several hardware generations.

ChatGPT can't replace your own problem debugging skills. Software still needs human finding the right solution in its data set.

Quote from CSC_

I attached it to this post.

It is a gaming laptop, the dedicated GPU (which would never see any use in watching videos via LibreELEC, as all outputs are attached to the integrated GPU only) is indeed an nVidia one, a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti.

I wanted to repurpose the laptop into an HTPC.

Do you have secure boot enabled in BIOS?

Quote from zzlatev

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Oh, that's great! Is it possible to change the mounted network device ownership to 1000 then?

What is the point of that? LibreELEC sees files regardless of their ownership and your other device sees them with ownership that you set in your mount command.

Unless you forgot to mention that you attached libreelec disk to other system and then ran chown command not on SMB/CIFS mount point.

Your screenshot shows LibreELEC /storage directory with way too many files.

For LibreELEC it does not matter if files are owned by UID 1000 or UID 0.

Secure boot turned on?

MSI with 8750H search would indicate that you have gaming laptop with integrated high end nvidia graphics. Not particularly unique, but also not particularly generic or linux gpl friendly.

Quote from Reddirt

I suppose I might identify as a "command-line-phobic user" so I gave the Startup Disk Creator a whirl on my Mint 21.3 system and a bit of poking and prodding to make it work. Not quite as eloquent and simple as the LE Creator but does the job. Nice to always have a different path to the same destination.

Both "gunzip" and "dd" are available in file manager's right click menu's for .gz and .img on Gnome. Your base OS GUI install got all the tools for image writing.

Quote from MangoCats

Agreed.

Both "gunzip" and "dd" are available in file manager's right click menu's for .gz and .img on Ubuntu.

In other news red Victorinox knife is severally lacking compared to kitchen knife or bottle opener. Remember to blame lack of controls in the car when you drive on red light.

Quote from MangoCats

If anybody knows, I'd be curious: what does SDC, Balena, Rufus, etc. have that dd lacks?

"Write to device and not to partition."

You probably won't like my answer about what was lacking in dd command. There is nothing wrong with writing images using dd command on Linux.

Quote from bpr323

Just curious if LE can handle gracefully the PowerOff command scheduled from BIOS as opposed to 2-step shutdown from GUI?

Same as any operating system handles pulling the plug. You will be left with file systems that require file system check.

SSD are not spinning.

If your fans are power managed, they will run at reduced speed when extra cooling is not required.

Computer hardware is more likely to experience extra wear and tear during power up than during 24x7 operation.

Quote from MangoCats

What might I be missing?

Make sure that /media/mike/3731-3564 is not mounted.

umount /media/mike/3731-3564

Write to device and not to partition.

sudo dd if=LibreELEC-RPi5.arm-11.0.6.img of=/dev/sda bs=4M

Quote from FireBirds

I don't know if I'm in the right place here.

I have the LibreElec 11.0.6 image running on my Raspberry Pi 5.

Unfortunately I can't get a browser installed.

For example, how can I install google-chrome-stable-122.0.6261.111-1_amd64.deb via the terminal (ssh)?

amd64 is 64bit intel/amd architecture. Not 64bit ARM.

You expect to install software compiled for different architecture and for different operating system.

Generic Libreelec builds are not set to run graphical browsers since they started using same setup in v11 for all their archs. Kodi is available as package in Debian and Ubuntu ARM builds. Just run full OS and add Kodi from their package repos.

Even if NordVPN have arm version, they probably don't expect to be run on appliance level OS.

Quote from weaker

Maybe it has to do with the Conexant CX20632 HDA sound chip in the HP device that is maybe not that common. Any hints where to submit that issue that the device quirks are added upstream?

I am not hardware engineer, but I would suspect that HDMI audio is not about passing through audio from sound card. Your HDMI sound is controlled by video card driver.

Quote from jfjf

Other thing, PC don't want to start without keyborad connected. I found nothing about that in BIOS. Is it possible to solve it?

BIOS screen - Left column, second menu option

"Standard CMOS features" -> "Halt On"

Based on manual it boots without keyboard in default bios setting.

Audio not working both on HDMI and audio, would mean that you have two faulty components on the board or one faulty component in front of the screen. F12 version adds next gen CPU support. Your kit should not work at all, if you put ivy Bridge CPU in it on F7 BIOS.

If battery is dead, you would see it by kit not saving its clock.

Quote from retropie boy

For right now, i'm doing a test run, so i know how to do it for the rest of my videos.

On a USB drive, i created a folder name MOVIES/ a sub-folder inside name as the movie title/ inside of the sub-folder is the movie file and also the movie poster.

I don't keep my Raspberry Pi 4 connected online at all. So, as for the naming of the artwork i tried what they say here https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork but i just don't get it. I tried this.

WHITE LIGHTNING (1973)-poster.png

the artwork poster and that didn't do up when connected the drive to Kodi

But, i set the Set Content Choose Information Provider and selected Local Information Only. and i selected Local Information Only it came up saying .nfo.

So, do i have to put the artwork in .nfo

if so, how to do so

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NFO files/Templates - Official Kodi Wiki

Quote from MatteN

Thats the only way i use.

Switch to manual update, set update channel and you can upgrade in UI.