Can't boot past Lakka Berry on ODROID XU4

Libretro Lakka
#1

I’ll preface the post with that I know how to navigate Linux and the command line. I bought a brand new ODROID XU4 last week and was super excited to start this project.

I’m able to correctly image both an SD card and eMMC with Mate. I get, based on posts, that there is an issue with eMMC. So I attempted with an SD Card.

When I boot the SD, the Lakka berry splash screen appears, and the ODROID blinks blue. And it stays there for about 10 minutes. Then the unit reboots on its own, and it stays at a blank screen. Subsequent power cycles result in a perpetual blank screen. I’ve attempted to override the display EDID by modifying the boot.ini and that made no difference.

Details:

  1. macOS Sierra with USB 3.0 -> Transcend mini SD card adapter.

  2. Command used: sudo dd if=./Lakka-OdroidXU3.arm-2.0.img of=/dev/rdisk2 bs=4

  3. Samsung SD XC 64gb SD Card.

  4. Mate boots on SD without issue using same dd command above.

Does anybody have any additional recommendations as to how I can get this up and running? The definition of insanity is repeating the same steps over and over again expecting a difference result and I honestly feel like I’m insane.

#2

Can you try with Lakka 2.1 rc4 and use Etcher ?

Thank you.

#3

Unfortunately no change in behavior.

Meanwhile on the eMMC I’ve loaded ubu mate latest and installed retropi with EmulationStation and it’s running.

Is there a verbose mode we can boot Lakka into to see where it’s hanging? I’d like to get Lakka running as I want something a bit more lightweight. :slight_smile:

#4

Which emmc you use?

I had no boot problem with my emmc on xu3 (old emmc model with hidden boot).

To solve this problem (long way) is to do the emmc recovery then flash it with Dec 2016 lakka version then upgrade with the newest lakka tar file over network.