[mythtv-users] Zotac ZBOX ID86 unable to boot from SD card

[Marlon Buchanan]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian S <inanimatecrbnrod at hotmail.com>
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 7:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Zotac ZBOX ID86 unable to boot from SD card
> 
> On 12/31/2014 04:32 PM, Don Wooton wrote:
>>  I have found that the geometry of the SD matters much more to the
>>  BIOS than it does to Linux.  You may have to adjust the expert
>>  mode values in fdisk or try -c=dos    The man page for fdisk
>>  discusses this.
>> 
>>       - Don
> 
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> After much tinkering with the SD card and other SD cards and myriad 
> other ideas that aren't probably interesting enough to discuss here, I 
> gave in and e-mailed Zotac & their response was the card reader will not 
> work as bootable on the ID86. Which I suppose would have been nice to 
> know up front, but fortunately I realized I had a spare SSD laying 
> around anyway.
> 
> For anyone wondering, the ID86 so far works really well - only quibbles 
> are it's a teensy bit laggy on the Watch Recordings screen, and I 
> haven't figured out how to turn off the ridiculously bright blue LED on 
> the front of the machine (not the stupid blue ring, that I got turned 
> off right away).
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I have collected 3 different models of Zotac Zboxes over the years. They all have worked well. I ended up putting black electrical tape over the LEDs in the fronts of the machines :)