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2013-12-08, 01:12
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-08, 01:13 by dfdeath.)
For those that got Mint working on their Nuc, I have a (probably silly) question. I booted from a USB Drive and chose the "Install Mint" option so I could install to my SSD, which looked normal and everything went great. I just did the "Express" option and had it do the install for me.
Now it's done, but when I remove the USB drive and try to boot, the SSD does not appear to be bootable. I can SEE the drive in my bios, but it's not showing up as a boot option under UEFI or when I go directly to the boot menu on startup.
Any ideas?
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Anyone using wireless with their NUC?
Just got an intel ac-7260 card to try out ( for one specific room where I don't want to run cat6). Problem is, in openelec I can see my network but when I enter the pass phrase it say 'associating' for a short while then goes back to 'idle' resulting in no connection?
I know the wireless LAN works fine so I was wondering if there is more I can do on openelec to configure the adaptor or the wireless settings? It looks a little too basic to me?
Any help here would be great thanks.
Oh I'm using Imyllari's build with the black/grey fixes in (think it's based on Gotham)
Cheers
Intel NUC i7 - OpenELEC - 16GB Ram - 1TB NVME/1TB SSD / LG OLED77GX6LA / Denon AVC-X4700H / Panasonic DP-UB9000 / Monitor Audio 5.2.4 / Twin REL HT1003
Server: AMD 2950x / 32 GB Ram / 7x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB NVME drives / 24 WD Red 4TB HDDs / 10GB Nic / LSI HBA
Network: 1 x MikroTik CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+PC / 2 x MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+IN 10G / 2 x Ubiquiti NanoHD
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Power button on the brand spanking new replacement nuc just stopped working. This thing is really starting to piss me off. Hit the button, it hung on load, held the button and it started blinking, wouldn't stop. Unplugged from power, replugged. Button is fried. Now I can only wake on lan again. ARRRRRGHGHGHHGHGHHGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now that my NUC has stabilized, I thought I'd share my experiences in case others are interested. I have the i5 NUC (D54250WYK), with a similar build to bmstrong's post above. I'm running a dual boot configuration of Windows 8.1 (which runs primary Plex Media Theater at the moment) and the Gotham Nightlies of OpenElec.
Getting a stable dualboot system was a bit of a hassle. I followed guide in the OpenElec Wiki, but soon found that restarting from OpenElec would result. in a "machine not ready" bios boot error. More searching showed that the ExtLinux 4.xx bootloader used in the guide can have this issue with EFI bioses like the NUC had. OE now ships with version 5.10, so a simple "/usr/bin/extlinux -i /flash" command from SSH updated it, but unfortunately did not come with the updated .c32 files needed for the boot menu. I eventually found all of those (kernel.org download) and was good to go.
In the end however, the extlinux bootloader menu is not worth the hassle, as it can't be controlled by the remote as far as I can tell, so I'll likely default it to OE, then when I need windows, if I hold down Shift or Alt at boot, I can get the menu prompt and switch.
Once the dual boot was sorted, the remaining tweaks were all found in this awesome thread. Remote is working fine in OE thanks to the Autostart change. HD Audio works great, as long as I don't select "Automatically match refresh rates" -- still hoping that last bug gets squashed. I had to enable the "wait for network" setting in OpenElec settings because I use a mySQL library... Without that setting the system cold boots to OpenElec in like 2.5 seconds. Even with it, it is still usable in well under 10 seconds (windows boot is around 5-8 seconds too).
I've found in the gotham nightlies there are a couple of my videos that don't play perfectly with the VAPI hardware decoding enabled (some pixelations), so for now I'm using the multithreaded software decode which seems to be working just fine. I'll play with this some more, and eventually file a bug if needed.
Really, I can't thank folks in this thread enough -- especially lmyllari -- for all your efforts to make this such a great solution for XBMC.
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If someone wants to list all the facts and fixes in this thread I will update the first post.