Yes, it should work on pretty much anything. Did you try waiting 20-30 sec? I've seen the boot process take a long time once in a while. Pretty sure there's some condition that's triggered in the initial ramdisk, before the logo is shown. Seen it on both Generic and RPi.
I've already restored my basic LibreELEC install. I will retry using a new SD Card and let you know.
If needed I can try to get some logs (if you give me instructions)
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I've tried a different approach now, installed generic LibreELEC and than tried to update using "LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel-20160928.tar"
I've received this message:
"Your system (FAT) partition is too small for this update
and there is not enough space for the update to be installed!
You must re-install your system using the disk image of a
current release, or you must re-size your existing partitions
so that the System (FAT) partition is at least 512MB in size.
Cleaning up... done
Normal startup in 60s"