OpenELEC Beta 4.95.2 and more

[MikeDotBe]

ok .. then ... could you explain me how to get the serial console.
?

[vpeter]

could you explain me how to get the serial console

You need an adapter which you obviously don't have. I assume that if you would have one then you would know how to use it. It is something like this but probably on USB. Then you open Putty program and open serial port and you see lot of messages when system boots.

[MikeDotBe]

indeed i don"t...

[MikeDotBe]

are you planning to get a Matrix with Firmware 2.3?

[vpeter]

are you planning to get a Matrix with Firmware 2.3?

You probably mean revision v2.3? The answer for this is no. I got both my devices for free from a good friend named diabloss to get openelec running on it.

And I also think it should already work for v2.3 revision because mfgtool starts and already writes u-boot bootloader on it. But then something goes wrong.

[vpeter]

MikeDotBe, check that file Profiles\MX6Q Linux Update\OS Firmware\partitition-emmc.sh exists.

[Dinos52]

Here the answer from TBS support about HW revisions

On 03.2.2015 г. 12:43, administrator wrote:
> Subject: What HW revision?
> Product Model: Matrix (TBS2910)
> Support Type: Technical
> Hi,
> I just purchased a Matrix-TV Board and now I'm wondering witch HW revision this board has.
> S/N T2910S140800108. On the board I see a print TBS 2910V23. In forums, they mention HW revisions 1.2, 1.3 and 2.1. Do I have 2.3 or what?

hi,
yes, you have V2.3, but from user perspective that should be considered the same as 2.1 or 2.x

best regards,
constantine

[vpeter]

If v2.3 is similar to v2.1 then MikeDotBe has problem only transferring data with MfgTool2 from Windows machine to matrix. But I don't know what is the problem. Published image is fine used by others already. Could be Windows version, admin rights, bad cables, ....

[MikeDotBe]

Yes i do have that file in both 4.95.3, 4.97.1 and 5.0.0
None of thoose version does install on the matrix.

As sais previously also tryed to do it with "run as admin", but got an error message sayin gthat mfgtools.exe can't be found (exe file is in the same directory as the reinstall.bat file).

here is the partition emmc file content

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#!/bin/sh

# SYSTEM partition size in MB
SYSTEM_ROM_SIZE=250

# set device
node=$1

# destroy the partition table
echo --------------------------------------
dd if=/dev/zero of=${node} bs=1024 count=1

# call sfdisk to create partition table
echo --------------------------------------
sfdisk --force -uM ${node} << EOF
,${SYSTEM_ROM_SIZE},0x0c
;
EOF

echo --------------------------------------
sfdisk -uM --list ${node}
echo --------------------------------------
#sfdisk -d ${node}
#echo --------------------------------------


exit 0

#############################################
# original script

# partition size in MB
BOOT_ROM_SIZE=10


# call sfdisk to create partition table
# destroy the partition table
node=$1
dd if=/dev/zero of=${node} bs=1024 count=1

sfdisk --force -uM ${node} << EOF
${BOOT_ROM_SIZE},,83
EOF



[vpeter]

One last thing you can try. Open file cfg.ini and put this content in. Then right click on MfgTool2.exe and run as administrator.
If it doesn't work I'm out of ideas.