LibreELEC boots from external media (SD-Card), so you need to write the image to SD card.
Preparation
- [x] Download the Win32DiskImager.
- [x] Extract and install it on your Windows PC.
- [x] An SD Card and a Card Reader is required, make sure there is nothing important on your card as ALL the data will be erased after the following operations.
Download The LibreELEC Image
You can download LibreELEC images from Edge LibreELEC firmware page.
Write Image to SD Storage
There are two ways to write a LibreELEC image to SD card:
Using Windows
- Run Win32DiskImager.
- Insert the SD card into your PC, it should appear as a new drive letter.
- Select the .img file and verify that the destination drive letter is correct, then click
write:
- When the write-process is complete, you can safely remove the SD card by right-clicking on the drive in “Windows Explorer” and selecting “Eject”.
Using Linux
Get The SD Storage Device Node:
After you’ve inserted the SD-Card to your PC, use dmesg | tail to find out which /dev/sdX it is located at.
You can also use parted or fdisk, It should look something similar to /dev/sdX:
$ sudo parted -l ... Model: Mass Storage Device (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 3997MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 16.5MB 3989MB 3973MB primary fat32 boot |
Make sure the disk is unmounted:
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1 |
Use dd to write the disk image into SD/USB card:
sudo dd if=LibreELEC-RK3399.arm-9.0-devel-20181219114346-cc816a4-khadas-edge.img of=/dev/sdb bs=4M && sync |
Notice: The sync flag is to ensure that all changes are synced to the SD card before removing it.
Eject the SD/USB card:
$ sudo eject /dev/sdb |
Boot LibreELEC from the SD card
Insert the SD card to SD card slot and reset the board by pressing the RESET key then the system will boot from SD card.