Running Linux From SD Card or USB Flash Drive - Using Balbes150 Method And Files.

[nosmokingbandit]

Amazing!!!!!!!!

Got Ubuntu running on my MXQ Pro 4K, using my own dtb.img and it boots just fine. Anyway to improve performance? Seems really slow even with a 32GB USB3.0 thumb drive. I know we can't do much with the limited 1GB ram but wondering if there would be any benefit running this on a SSD with a SATA to USB enclosure. I have a spare drive that I'm not using but can't test since I don't have an enclosure for the drive.

On my box the gpu is not recognized so all of the rendering is done on the cpu. Not a problem if you use it as a headless server.

Try this and see if the gpu comes up:

apt-get install inxi
inxi -Fx

The kernel Libre uses has full video acceleration, but I can't seem to get a kernel in Debian that works with the gpu.

[Jefken3]

Add to SD card the files from the archive (unzip and copy the files themselves). From a file with this picture.

http://freaktab.com/filedata/fetch?id=583155

If there is no reaction to the attempt to boot from the SD card. So the boot loader in the eMMC is corrupted and does not boot from external media. Will have to connect UART and determine what happens at the start (the best option). Or close the contacts on the chip eMMC. Then whatever the state of the internal bootloader, you can either boot from SD card, or you can run the USB Burning Tool (it can connect).






One of the contacts for the circuit. But be careful, you need to look for the information about the contacts on Your chip.

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-...993#post556993

Hi balbes150 , remember me? I 've been on a vacation, meanwhile my UART cable and USB M/M arrived, Would You be so kind to give me some help in solving my problem.
How to conect the uart cable with the board i.e.
regards, Jefken.

[RISCy Dude]

Hello Jefken3, Just a reminder that balbes150 is on his vacation. He has stated he is somewhere without access to the internet, so he won't get notifications from Freaktab for about another week(I think).
Cheers.

[Jefken3]

Hello Jefken3, Just a reminder that balbes150 is on his vacation. He has stated he is somewhere without access to the internet, so he won't get notifications from Freaktab for about another week(I think).
Cheers.

Thanks for this info.
Regards.

[balbes150]

Hi balbes150 , remember me? I 've been on a vacation, meanwhile my UART cable and USB M/M arrived, Would You be so kind to give me some help in solving my problem.
How to conect the uart cable with the board i.e.
regards, Jefken.

Hi.
Yeah, I remember You.
What information are You interested in ?

[Jefken3]

Hi @balbes, hope You had a great vacation,
As You know I was having problems with the booting proces, shortcutting the pins was not a succes, meanwhile I do have a usb-cable and also UART-cable, how can these be usefull to help me further.
I allready tried in windows10 and USB-cable, windows is recognising the device but USB burning tool not.

[balbes150]

Hi @balbes, hope You had a great vacation,
As You know I was having problems with the booting proces, shortcutting the pins was not a succes, meanwhile I do have a usb-cable and also UART-cable, how can these be usefull to help me further.
I allready tried in windows10 and USB-cable, windows is recognising the device but USB burning tool not.

Hi @Jefken3
What happens if you disconnect from the TV box all the cables (HDMI, Ethernet etc), including to disconnect the power supply. Ie if you leave the bare box and connect the USB cable. What is the reaction from Windows ? Is there a new device ? The UART cable is already connected to a TV console or not ?

[Jefken3]

Hi balbes150 ,

All cables are disconnected, Windows is detecting the device true USB and UART but I do have to restart windows, it is called o-box 3 ac, in the console nothing is happening when I reboot the device.
With linux (ubuntu) nothing is detected.

[balbes150]

I don't use Win10 (this is a very bad system). You have the opportunity to use Win7 ?
Unfortunately the firmware program via USB cable only works in Windows. But to monitor the ongoing processes via the console UART you can use Linux.

Describe exemplary steps for configuring a data output in UART on Linux.
1. Install minicom
sudo apt-get install minicom

2. Running minicom:
minicom -b 115200 -o -D /dev/ttyUSB0

Do not forget to specify the correct port number ttyXXX
Then we turn on the TV console. In the console should go in the data output. If not, you can try to swap the Rx and Tx contacts. Details and more useful info. The Internet has a lot of information on configuring and using minicom with serial output. It is important to achieve the output to the console of the ongoing process. Then you can determine exactly what steps to do next. http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi...using-the-uart

[Jefken3]

Thanks balbes150,

Swapping Rx and Tx, made the difference with minicom,

I will try in windows and putty now.

GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 126168
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63679
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63685
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63676
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63666
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63672
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************
GXBB:BL1:08dafd:0a8993;FEAT:EDFC318C;POC:3;RCY:0;E MMC:0;READ:0;CHK:0;
TE: 63774
***** Warning!! ************************************************** ***
* This board have not been autorized or product keys are not valid. *
* Please contact with Hardkernel or your distributor *
************************************************** *******************

[balbes150]

Now I understand what happened, replaced the bootloader from Odroid C2. I. e. it is not the most convenient option. There are several solutions. 1. Use a bootable card. 2. Use the USB cable and the program Burning Tool. But all options would have to find the correct pins on the chip's internal memory and to close them. If the Console UART (when you can see what's going on) it will not be difficult.

[KondorSoft]

Hi balbes150
I installed Armbian on Acemax KIII from your github repository for vegas95, everything works, good job. My question is, how to transfer system from MicroSD to internal flash?

[Jefken3]

balbes150, it 's difficult to find the exact pins, can I error and try all off them?

Now I understand what happened, replaced the bootloader from Odroid C2. I. e. it is not the most convenient option. There are several solutions. 1. Use a bootable card. 2. Use the USB cable and the program Burning Tool. But all options would have to find the correct pins on the chip's internal memory and to close them. If the Console UART (when you can see what's going on) it will not be difficult.

[balbes150]

You can try to insert a bootable card or plug the cable and the program for the firmware (running in the program for flashing all settings and start flashing), turn the console watching the console UART, in turn, to close for 1-2 seconds contacts (highlighted in the figure). Close nearby contacts directly into the "combs" (conveniently close to a thick sewing needle). It is better not to go beyond the first 8 pins from the edge, each marked on the figure. Be careful, the contacts in the middle (on both edges of the chip) is powered

[balbes150]

Hi balbes150
I installed Armbian on Acemax KIII from your github repository for vegas95, everything works, good job. My question is, how to transfer system from MicroSD to internal flash?

Not yet ready auto setup procedure. For installation in manual mode you need a UART console and a good knowledge of manual commands that create partitions, install the system and run setup.