Posts by chewitt

    Boot Debian or Ubuntu in Live mode. Erase the drive and:

    - Create a GPT partition 512MB in size with a VFAT or EXT4 filesystem labelled BOOT and enable it for boot

    - Create a GPT partition with EXT4 filesystem that fills 100% remaining space

    - Install Grub (not syslinux) to the internal drive and create a boot entry (crib the APPEND content from the LE installer usb).

    - Copy KERNEL and SYSTEM to the BOOT partition

    Shutdown Debian and see if it boots?

    Our forum is regularly targetted for product placement posts and although they are caught by moderation (and thus you don't see them) it's a chore and staff would rather help with an issue than deal with user-generated makework. The reason we exorcise those kind of posts is .. the more you allow, the more you're targetted. Kodi has a much larger moderation team and it's up to them to set their own rules, and CE can similarly do whatever it likes; but they don't support x86_64 hardware so not much point.

    You're welcome to post a simple link to the Radxa product page. I've already edited the original post to leave only the link to the CNX review, which being a formal product review, has a ton of info. Reposting the entire review or the entire product page; not welcome.

    My guess would be that those aren't actually "override", but they are always "fallback", and DHCP happens no matter what. That would totally explain what is happening at least.

    That would make sense to me, and does indeed explain the current behaviour.

    i'd prefer some script to issue that ntpd command

    The problem with that is you cannot disable ConnMan NTP checking so regardless of what date/time you set via a boot script (or cron task) there will be times when ConnMan runs an NTP check against the router and reverts the device to router time, until the next scheduled script NTP check that will correct it again.

    The better solution is to use a router that keeps time. The best solution is to author code that modifies ConnMan to optionally ignore NTP responses from routers (there are overrides for some other things, but not NTP). You can always submit the problem to the ConnMan mailing list and hope someone helps with that, but "You can have it fast or cheap, pick one" applies and $free requires someone on the list to feel kind or inspired enough to code something. Usually $free has a long waiting period.

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    - Do not post or promote external URL links to products, a name description is enough
    - Companies who create "advertorial" postings for their products in our forum are not welcome

    MediPi Your enthusiam for the Radxa X4 is noted. However this forum isn't interested in hosting full-page adverts for products and this has already been pointed out when I've deleted the advertorial content in two posts to this thread. If you want to ask in the N100 thread if anyone has an opinion on the device, you are welcome to do so. However if asking involves you posting another full page advert for the product at the same time the post is going to be deleted (again). And if I need to delete a fourth post I'm going to assume you are working for Radxa to promote the product and your account will be banned (final warning). NB: We are happy to have Radxa staff active in our forum; as long as the accounts are tagged (and they stick to support not promotion).

    It would be helpful to see a full Kodi debug log that demonstrates the issue and how the source is configured in sources.xml. Note that Windows requires you to use username/password authentication (anonymous shares no longer exist). This means even if you configure a share as open and accessible to anyone, the connecting client still needs to present itself as 'someone' else you are 'no one' and access is denied.

    If the intention is to boot/run from a USB drive (not an internal drive)? - Write the LE image to the 2TB USB drive then boot from the drive but interrupt boot at the syslinux prompt and type 'run' to boot from the USB drive instead of booting into the installer which is used to install to another drive target. I can't explain why the normal installer approach isn't working (there are no errors in the log file you shared) but if the device is booting to the installer from a USB device, see if that continues?

    Random guess: Is your router acting as an NTP source (some do) and is its clock correct?

    The LE settings add-on will allow you to configure NTP servers, so perhaps force {0,1,2}.pool.ntp.org and see what happens. They are the default ones we use anyway, unless something like DHCP configures an alternate (like when the router sets itself as one).

    I started working on "nvmetool" based on the existing "emmctool" script in Amlogic images:

    https://paste.libreelec.tv/credible-osprey.sh

    The basic workflow is to download an LE .img.gz file to /storage and then run "nvmetool w <filename>.img.gz" to write it to the nvme drive, expand storage to 100% size, then relabel the partitions so they don't clash with an SD card. The last step (not implemented in the script) is to set the eeprom for nvme boot.

    NB: It's not particularly tested.. I ended up using the nvme drive instead of developing and testing it properly /shrug

    The obvious alternative is RPi5, which is technically inferior to half the devices out there, but "just works" reliably with no fuss and does all the things I need it to do. Different users have different needs for "Just running LE" though, so what works great for me might be a heretical suggestion to others.

    How does it compare? .. fcuk knows. I only learned of the Radxa X4's existence an hour ago, and I generally avoid offering opinions on things that I haven't used.

    Posts edited to remove all the advertorial content. The second post was completely unnecessary so deleted.

    In terms of thoughts, it looks interesting: decent overall specs although most users will want emmc flash onboard which is promised but not shipping yet. There is one outstanding DRM bug affecting N100 devices that Intel devs are being rather slow at, but overall it should require nothing to be supported with LE.