Batocera retro-gaming distribution test image

darkstar · Post time 2021-11-04 02:39:00

Edited by darkstar at 2021-11-04 02:49

Demetris replied at 2021-11-03 07:21
You can choose not to flash to emmc then.
About "Beelink officially supports only their own build An ...

I'm sorry I did not mean anything offending, just shared my opinions.
I saw many people on different forums bricked their devices when flashing unofficial U-Boot builds.
GT King or GT King Pro devices has different versions, Beelink itself releases different Ota versions for different serials...

If you tried your build on all device versions yes you can be right, it may be safe.
Thank you again for your build, but I prefer not to flash my devices emmc.

I'm a fan of opensource for a decade, you can do what ever you want with it and everyone can share their opinions.

By the way those are your words from first post.

I need to be clear that we are still far from a stable release and much can be changed or altered and with your help we can squash all the bugs before we reach the code freeze state.

Regards,

Demetris · Post time 2021-11-04 07:15:02

Beelink android firmware is being builded using the amlogic sdk.
Both Beelink GT-King and GT-King Pro have mainline uboot support so using the right configuration booting up is quarantine to work. So this is not an unofficial uboot version by any means. Actually you cant go more official than this :)
About my words, you misunderstood them completely. We have stable build releases every now and then when the most bugs are squashed and we just released one so what i was trying to say is that the image is stable but we will work our way up to find more bugs to fix until the next release thats why we are far from a stable release NOT that the image is unstable what so ever.

bibe · Post time 2021-11-11 23:41:30

I think the problem is that CE is not compatible with u-boot as it is stated here:

The start system in Coreelec is not compatible with LibreELEC Armbian etc. If you run coreelec on your TV box, you will no longer be able to run LE and Armbian normally until the full recovery of the standard firmware via the USB Burn Tool and the new activation of the universal multi-boot, which is used in all new systems.

I tried this method before and I was able to run Manjaro on GT1 Ultimate after CoreELEC . I have some important data on my GT-King, so right not I'm not able to re-flash it with USB util, but it would be nice if someone could try to reinstall the original ROM with USB utility and try to boot this image from an SD card...

JFL · Post time 2021-11-16 15:11:44

Edited by JFL at 2021-11-16 15:18

You can run CoreElec on SD Card, Armbian (with chainloader), Manjaro (with chainloader) and Ubuntu-Impish (by @darkstar) on SD Card/USB on GT King and GT King Pro this is with Beelink Android Firmware on emmc. http://forum.bee-link.com/forum. ... 1309&extra=page%3D1 and https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how- ... 2x-s905x3-soc/40777 and http://forum.bee-link.com/forum. ... p;extra=&page=1

bibe · Post time 2021-11-17 01:28:53

JFL replied at 2021-11-16 15:11
You can run CoreElec on SD Card, Armbian (with chainloader), Manjaro (with chainloader) and Ubuntu-I ...

Could you please present some info about this chainloader? THX.

JFL · Post time 2021-11-17 13:03:14

Edited by JFL at 2021-11-17 13:09

bibe replied at 2021-11-17 01:28
Could you please present some info about this chainloader? THX.

The chainloader is available on Manjaro-Arm-Vim3 image and also on @darkstar Ubuntu-Impish-5.14.15-darkstar as u-boot.ext.

A good article on chainloader for amlogic is available on https://forum.armbian.com/topic/ ... images-for-amlogic/
I have only used the chainloader from Manjaro-Arm and from @darkstar image. Additional info https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-on-amlogic-tv-box/34662/1

RSD · Post time 2021-11-25 05:21:38

Great to Know that you are making this for GT King. IS this for DDR4 or LPDR4? I have GTK B222 and love to try this.

KanSr · Post time 2021-12-09 17:59:23

Demetris replied at 2021-11-02 04:32
I went full with mainline support in everything so amlogic scripting using the old uboot(bootloader ...

hi, so glad to try it,but finished and reboot,.nothing happened but blackscreen . help please!

CoreELEC:~ # dd if=bato.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M && sync
3588+0 records in
3588+0 records out
3762290688 bytes (3.5GB) copied, 173.949687 seconds, 20.6MB/s

is something wrong?

KanSr · Post time 2021-12-11 20:01:03

有高手指点一下吗？谢谢了，整了好多天了，就是启动不了

Teret1011 · Post time 2021-12-22 02:32:58

How do I install this? I followed instructions from here https://imandroid.online/retro-e ... ocera-step-by-step/ but when I have to boot i get to bootloader screen instead to Batocera. Can you help me?