[mythtv-users] Time to move to an HDMI stick for FEs?

[Paul Kendall]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 3:15 AM Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 27/03/2015 03:43, Kris Jensen wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com
>> > <mailto:thomas at mashos.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     Just wondering how the others that are working on this are faring.
>> >
>> >     For reference, this is the stick I'm talking about (I have the
>> >     black one)
>> >     http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Sell-Mini-PC-with-both-
>> Android-Windows-8-system/2044898752.html
>> >
>> Is this for real!?!
>>
>> It looks ridiculous!
>>
>> A full computer on a USB stick!?!
>>
>> What are the specs? Should I be considering one of these instead of an
>> ECS Liva system for my new main MythBuntu frontend?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Damian
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>
> I've gotten it to boot semi-successfully, however I've run into two
> problems.
>
> 1) Anytime I try to boot anything but the installed windows (EFI shell,
> USB ubuntu stick) it will auto-arrow key up repeatedly. I've tried
> different settings to resolve this in the BIOS (and different keyboards)
> but nothing seems to work. Until I fix this, point two is moot.
>
> 2) Ubuntu fails to boot and complains the NTFS partition is either in a
> inconsistent state or is in hibernation. I've not looked at this too much
> since it's kinda pointless to do so without fixing #1.
>
> To answer your question though, it's got 2GB and a 1.3 Ghz quad core
> x86-64 capable processor.
>
> Thomas,
If you are getting the back-arrow behaviour on boot it because you are
either trying to boot a 64bit EFI or an MBR style USB.

You have to get a 32bit EFI and out that on the USB (which is easier if you
use a a 64bit distro). Get the file here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99O3A0dDe67QWUtek9rdHptMjA
and copy it to the \EFI\BOOT directory on the USB, then you should be good
to go.

If you install to the device, you will need to remove the x64 version of
the grub modules and install the 32bit x86 vesions. I did this by rebooting
to the USB and editing the grub.cfg file to then boot from the flash then
use apt to remove the x64 grub modules and install the others.

The current major drawback of these devices is that there is no audio over
HDMI support yet.

Cheers,
Paul
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