vpeter Wrote:How do you boot matrixtv from SD card on matrix v1? Because using original u-boot will not work because it's incompatible with openelec. My suggestion should work on matrix v2 where you can set boot location with dip switches.
I may have the only V1.3 board fitted with dip switches! It was specially modified for me by TBS. I set the switches for booting from SD and it loads the MatrixTV software from the SD card.
I hope that all I need to do is to load OpenELEC onto an SD card (with the correct structure), and boot from that instead of the MatrixTV SD.
I think that my problem lies in 'translating' the instructions for creating a MatrixTV boot card (which uses uImage), to creating an OpenELEC boot card (which uses KERNEL and SYSTEM).
Even better would be to use a network boot, like I do using PXE for my x86 OpenELEC boxes. Then I could easily reconfigure the booted system by altering files on the server.
This is very important:
milan Wrote:you need the u-boot of OpenElec in boot partition 0 of eMMC because matrix v1 will always boot from emmc.
Actually, even the V1.3 board is layed out for a dip switch to be fitted. However, the standard board comes with zero ohm smc resistors fitted to hardwire the device to boot from the internal flash. If your eyes are younger than mine, you may feel confident about using a soldering iron/gun to move the smc components, and alter the configured boot device.
And there must be openelec's u-boot in emmc. And this new u-boot will look "around" and boot if anything is found on SD or micro SD card. If not it will boot from eMMC itself.
That sounds useful ... if only the standard offering from TBS had included that feature ...