For more convenience, install Grub Customizer or some other grub tool if you want to make the GRUB2 booter visible at boot time.
I installed Grub Customizer and simply elevated LibreELEC to the top so that it would be the default boot item. After that, it fails to boot. Any suggestions?
I just installed 7.95.3 on my Intel NUC. Passthrough works fine in Kodi for Windows, but not in LibreELEC.
Strangely, I heard rumors before I acquired the NUC last week that only Linux variants had successfully implemented support for passthrough, and that there was a bug with the official Intel audio driver for Windows.
No, there is currently no foolproof tool/installer that comfortably installs LibreELEC onto a machine and keeping existing operating systems alive. Perhaps if we had enough man power / skills / time / testing facilities, a capable enough installer could be created. Right now, it still comes down to only a few minutes of manual labor (if you know what you are doing...).(Mind you, this tutorial is all with no guarantee whatsoever if you yourself fcuk up.)
Since you are using Ubuntu and talk about extended partitions, you should also be comfortable using bootable tools like Gparted Live. If so, create 2 EXT4 partitions : one 512MB system partition, the another one using up the rest of the availabe free space for LibreELEC's storage partition. Whether those are primary or extended is up to you. All primary is possible when you have no seperate partitions for Linux's home, boot, or its other options. So if you have currently only a single EXT4 partition for Ubuntu along with a SWAP partition, it's possible. Otherwise, create the 2 EXT4 partitions in the extended partition area. Also, give the new partitions labels, to identify them more easily.Reboot the machine, Ubuntu should start.
Go into a terminal. Type sudo blkid
You will get a list of drives/partitions, pick out your two new partitions, and remember their device numbers. You will need them later on.
Now you need to add the LibreELEC menu item to the GRUB2 boot system.
In the terminal, type sudo nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom .
Paste in the following text:
menuentry "LibreELEC 8.0 Krypton" {
set root=(hd0,6)
linux /KERNEL boot=/dev/sda6 disk=/dev/sda7 quiet
}Replace all three drive numbers (in my case, twice 6 & 7) with the ones you got for your respective system and storage partitions from the blkid command.
CTRL-O for storing the file changes
CTRL-X for leaving the nano editorUpdate the GRUB2 menus: sudo update-grub2 .
Reboot your machine and hold the left SHIFT key.
Tadaa !!!For more convenience, install Grub Customizer or some other grub tool if you want to make the GRUB2 booter visible at boot time.
I realized that I am still short some info from this tutorial - I've already created the flash drive installer for LibreELEC; do I use that and copy files from it? (I don't know what specific actions the installer takes...) If so, what files do I copy, and to which partition, of the two that I am creating, will they need to go?
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YEAHHHH. I N00bed it out on my own. Thanks for filling in where Google didn't. 
You are a master of the universe (for tonight, at least.)
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Btw - you mention Grub Customizer as a way to customize GRUB2... any thoughts on rEFInd? The creator Rod works for Canonical as I understand, and he saw the need to create this alternative product for some reason. I'm curious about what the Linux community in general thinks of it.
It's supposed to be cross-platform, and I tried it on my Mac and liked it - but the Mac UEFI system fought me to the death overriding it. Macs don't like to be customized - but then again thats good - it means dumb people have to work REALLY hard to screw one up.
Sweet! That's definitely simple enough for me to follow - and will be my project for tomorrow! Thank you for the guidance!
You would have to manually do it. It's because we require using two partitions.Just install LibreELEC on a flash drive and save the headache.
I'm okay with creating two partitions. That's not difficult for me. I've got 30 gigs to work with as I mentioned.
The only thing is, generally speaking I'm new to Linux...other than when I played with SuSE in the late 90s around 11 years old. As I said I'm fine with creating/adjusting partitions, following GUI prompts, or entering specific CLI commands - beyond that I just need a little help.
I think I saw something on the board that was similar but it was too much "do this, do this" without any elaboration.
I've already got a lot set up on my computer so it's be really difficult to start from scratch, and I'd really prefer not to use up a USB port if you were referring to running from a flash drive.
Any help is appreciated.
Hi - I've searched high and low for assistance or some sort of a tutorial on a dual-boot scenario. The FAQ suggests that I read a nonexistent (link dead or improperly formatted) page on the LibreELEC wiki....
The flash drive installer method wants me to choose a physical drive, which of course I can't do without wiping out my existing OS.
I have a 30 gig ext4 partition + a swap (overkill, but it's a 1TB drive with about 850 gigs free, and a 4TB external drive for videos) on my new Intel NUC6CAYH. I'm given no option with the LibreELEC installer to choose a partition.
The other OS is Ubuntu Desktop 16.04.2. I don't quite understand why it's so difficult to simply install LibreELEC on an empty secondary partition that's ready and waiting...
Any ideas folks?
