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DualMarching| OpenELEC Mediacenter Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install GuideTransmissionInstallation DualMarchingNetworkMarching- NFS NetworkMarching- iSCSI User guideSubtractingMedia Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate Home Documentation Installing OpenELEC DualMarchingTable of contents: Partitioning Bootable Flag Copying OpenELEC FilesSubtractingOpenELEC to the GRUB2 bootloader The transmission installation onto a multi marching system is fairly similar to installation on a single marching system. A disk partition tool such as GParted or PartedMagic will be required. In this tutorial we will demonstrate the transmission installation of OpenELEC onto a single nonflexible drive, multi marching system. Partitioning Combinations of operating systems can be numerous, but here we will focus on a multiboot system using Windows, Ubuntu and OpenELEC: a triple marching system. Just considering we can. If you want to build a triple marching system, it is weightier to install your OS'es in the pursuit sequence: Windows XP / Vista / 7 Ubuntu 12.04+ OpenELEC Here we will sooner use the GRUB2 bootloader installed by Ubuntu. OpenELEC itself requires at least 2 partitions. You can add a third partition for swapmemory. If a partition for swapmemory is once present from the Ubuntu installation, OpenELEC will use that existing partition for swapping memory. A swap partition is only recommended for OpenELEC when using computers with less than 1GB internal memory. Hopefully you have unbearable self-ruling diskspace remaining from partitioning your harddrive for Windows and Ubuntu, considering now the 2 partitions for OpenELEC will be created. Harddrives can contain upto 4 primairy partitions, without that logical partitions must be created inside an extended partition. Bootable Linux partitions (inluding OpenELEC) can moreover be created as logical partitions. Create the first partition, EXT4 format preferably. Label it OE_SYSTEM, size 512MB to 1GB. In here, the two operating system files KERNEL and SYSTEM will be placed Create the second partition, EXT4 format preferably. Label it 'OE_DATA', size. Here all local OpenELEC/XBMC data will be placed, such as databases and thumbnails. Write lanugo the linux momentum reports (i.e. /dev/sda3, /dev/sdc2 etc.) that have been prescribed to both partitions. You will need them later on when subtracting the OpenELEC entry in the Grub2 bootloader. Bootable Flag The OE_SYSTEM partition must be flagged as bootable. This option can be set by you disk partition tool. Copying OpenELEC Files Next, both operating system files, SYSTEM and KERNEL, must be placed into the OE_SYSTEM partition. Mount the OE_SYSTEM partition, and reprinting both files to it via a Terminal session. sudo cp /<location_of_OE_files>/* /media/OE_SYSTEMSubtractingOpenELEC to the GRUB2 bootloaderSubtractingthe OpenELEC menu item to GRUB is washed-up by editing the pursuit file: sudo gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom or sudo nano /etc/grub.d/40_custom An example: #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add without this comment. Be shielding not to transpiration # the 'exec tail' line above. # menuentry "OpenELEC" { search --set=root --label OE_SYSTEM --hint hd0,msdos3 linux /KERNEL boot=LABEL=OE_SYSTEM disk=LABEL=OE_DATA quiet } menuentry "OpenELEC debugging" { search --set=root --label OE_SYSTEM --hint hd0,msdos3 linux /KERNEL boot=LABEL=OE_SYSTEM disk=LABEL=OE_DATA debugging } Please note the /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4 devices correspond to the two OpenELEC partition device names that you created older in this tutorial. In the example, /dev/sda3 corresponds to the partition labelled OE_SYSTEM which KERNEL and SYSTEM have been copied to, and /dev/sda4 corresponds to the partition OE_DATA which was left empty. Please note that GRUB2 differs from GRUB regarding the partitions schemes, as it starts enumerating partitions from 1 instead of 0. Within GRUB2, the notation set root=(hd0,3) corresponds to the third partition on the first drive, i.e. sda3. The two values shall match. Now, we will finalize the grub menu addition(s): sudo update-grub If all went well, reboot and the OpenELEC entry will show up in the GRUB2 bootloader, and OpenELEC will be selectable. Copyright © 2009-2018 OpenELEC . All Rights Reserved. Home FAQ OpenELEC FAQ Raspberry Pi FAQ Kodi FAQ (external) Community FAQ Privacy FAQ Documentation Supported Platforms Intel x86 Raspberry Pi 1 & 2 WeTek Play Cubox-i Installing OpenELEC Basic Install GuideTransmissionInstallation DualMarchingNetworkMarching- NFS NetworkMarching- iSCSI User guideSubtractingMedia Sources Configuring Screen Resolutions Configuring Audio Accessing Samba Server Useful Terminal Commands Kodi Wiki (external) Kodi Addons (external) Configuration Updating OpenELEC Compile from source Development workflow Downloads Forum Donate