Use plugin DuckBA-E2 to boot between images installed.
To download and install the plugin, refer to my post on the following link
DuckBA-E2-plugin to Return For Spark system from enigma2 system
we will go to the DuckBA-E2 plugin And click OK from the remote and agree to the message that appears to boot the Image
Good luck
dear ahmed
how can i solve this errors
firstly
i have these copies on my flash 8 GB created by NFR4XBOOT NFR 6.5
after using image manager to create another copies on another flash 16 GB , the flash 8GB was in receiver at this time
these copies doesn't work yet
i think copies kernels removed or deleted
how can i solve this errors to run these copies
on the other hand , when i want to use image manager and DuckBA i face these errors
What ahmed is saying is you did not PARTITION your USB memory stick, as explained carefully by both him and me.
As in, like this:
PREPARATION
One needs a USB stick, say 32GB, plugged into one's PC.
I partition it in 4 parts under Windows OS, using freeware MiniTool Partition Wizard:
I shall be formatting all 4 partitions in Linux system EXT4. Three of them 2GB each and forth partition gets the rest. That's enough for me... (If you want more than 3 images installed in USB stick, follow Ahmed's tutorial!)
Right click on the USB stick and
-delete all the partitions which might already be on it
-create 4 partitions for 3 images + one which will serve as a HDD, as explained above
-set them all as "active"
-apply all the changes (left upper corner) and wait patiently...
When done, properly dismount the USB stick from your PC and plug it into the SH4 STB's back USB port.
Inside your STB
The rest I shall demonstrate on PurE2 image: MENU > pManager > Device Manager > Mount Manager > mount them as follows:
When done, after every significant change - and this is one of those! - you MUST REBOOT (do not start from FSTAB, just restart your machine!)!
...and so on and on... and then, later on....
Rename enigma2 folder
As you will see from the screenshot (bottom right side), I opened a compressed file with WinRAR to show you what is inside. It contains a folder named enigma2.
All of such images have that, it's how it must be for installation from a USB stick.
However, in this case we can and we need to change it.
So, after I decompressed an image onto my PC, I have renamed the "enigma2" folder so it bears the name of the Team which produced it (upper right side)...
Send them on their merry way...
We can now move all 3 images into your STB.
More precisely, we shall move all 3 of them into the largest /hdd partition no. 4 of your USB stick, using FZC.
The main reason for this is - you can not install an image onto the same partition where you placed that image.
It must be to a different partition than the one where you parked it...
Now, we are ready for installation of multiple images, using the Image Manager, which will - amongst other things - serve as a MultiBoot tool, as well.
So, start again but make sure you do not cut any corners, do exactly as described!
Display MoreFirst, it is clear that you did not split the flash drive, yes, it is possible, but this will expose you to many risks in the future, including, for example, when you install an error copy on the flash drive and the flash stops working, this requires a reformatting of the flash drive in this case, you will be seen to do a reset of the entire flash because it is not Divided to do this on the part dedicated to the wrong copy and you will lose all copies on the flash drive
To work on 2 flashes, return to my post at the following link and read it completely well
For your information, I am still working on the version open nfr 5.3 and its plugin
Display MoreWhat ahmed is saying is you did not PARTITION your USB memory stick, as explained carefully by both him and me.
As in, like this:
PREPARATION
One needs a USB stick, say 32GB, plugged into one's PC.
I partition it in 4 parts under Windows OS, using freeware MiniTool Partition Wizard:
I shall be formatting all 4 partitions in Linux system EXT4. Three of them 2GB each and forth partition gets the rest. That's enough for me... (If you want more than 3 images installed in USB stick, follow Ahmed's tutorial!)
Right click on the USB stick and
-delete all the partitions which might already be on it
-create 4 partitions for 3 images + one which will serve as a HDD, as explained above
-set them all as "active"
-apply all the changes (left upper corner) and wait patiently...
When done, properly dismount the USB stick from your PC and plug it into the SH4 STB's back USB port.
Inside your STB
The rest I shall demonstrate on PurE2 image: MENU > pManager > Device Manager > Mount Manager > mount them as follows:
When done, after every significant change - and this is one of those! - you MUST REBOOT (do not start from FSTAB, just restart your machine!)!
...and so on and on... and then, later on....
Rename enigma2 folder
As you will see from the screenshot (bottom right side), I opened a compressed file with WinRAR to show you what is inside. It contains a folder named enigma2.
All of such images have that, it's how it must be for installation from a USB stick.
However, in this case we can and we need to change it.
So, after I decompressed an image onto my PC, I have renamed the "enigma2" folder so it bears the name of the Team which produced it (upper right side)...
Send them on their merry way...
We can now move all 3 images into your STB.
More precisely, we shall move all 3 of them into the largest /hdd partition no. 4 of your USB stick, using FZC.The main reason for this is - you can not install an image onto the same partition where you placed that image.
It must be to a different partition than the one where you parked it...
Now, we are ready for installation of multiple images, using the Image Manager, which will - amongst other things - serve as a MultiBoot tool, as well.
So, start again but make sure you do not cut any corners, do exactly as described!
dears, ahmed gazye dear, gorski
thanks for your following
if you are talking about second flash disk 16 GB for image manager .
i had split it as per you have seen at the picture below
where is the problem at my work ?
about first flash disk for nfr4x plugin i don't understand what happened to this flash exactly i didn't split it because nfr plugin work on flash disk as one partition i had make steps for initialization as you explain here
The first image is installed into the flash! I.e. the receiver itself.
Use only 1 USB stick, partitioned as I described.
Start again and follow my guide to the letter - I left no stone unturned and I did not complicate it with too many images/partitions or various plugins for various functions.
Only 4 partitions for 3 images in the USB stick and 1 HDD partition, where you put the images initially, before you install them.
One more image goes into the flash.
Only one plugin for this!
It works! Guaranteed!
Display MoreFirstly, let me thank kindly @ahmed gazye for pointing out to this tool and his tutorial, which, of course, were my starting point! These tools are essential in a struggle to revive the old beauties, like Alien1/2 and so on...
However, while reading it I realised that I was struggling with it, for various reasons. Hence, I decided to make a simple and detailed tutorial, which will leave no stone unturned and be simple to understand and translate using online tools. The strategy deployed, as always, when I deal with these issues, is KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)!:*
IMPORTANT: "stupid" here is not meant offensively outwards - but it is rather turned inwards, to oneself, challenging oneself towards patience and simplicity of explanation, making everyone happier in the process, even if it makes me work too hard and therefore miserable at times...
Sooooo, let's keep it simple and to the point...;)
PREPARATION
One needs a USB stick, say 32GB, plugged into one's PC.
I partition it in 4 parts under Winblows OS, using freeware MiniTool Partition Wizard:
I shall be formatting all 4 partitions in Linux system EXT4. Three of them 2GB each and forth partition gets the rest. That's enough for me... (If you want more than 3 images installed in USB stick, follow Ahmed's tutorial!)
Right click on the USB stick and
-delete all the partitions which might already be on it
-create 4 partitions for 3 images + one which will serve as a HDD, as explained above
-set them all as "active"
-apply all the changes (left upper corner) and wait patiently...
When done, properly dismount the USB stick from your PC and plug it into the SH4 STB's back USB port.
Inside your STB
The rest I shall demonstrate on PurE2 image: MENU > pManager > Device Manager > Mount Manager > mount them as follows:
When done, after every significant change - and this is one of those! - you MUST REBOOT (do not start from FSTAB, just restart your machine!)!
Now, while you wait, download the ipk file here attached (Image Manager for SH4 STBs v. 2.5.5) and send it to the /tmp folder of your Enigma2. Use FileZilla Client freeware (FZC from now on) to do this: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php (this is 64b version).
Connect your PC with your STB using FZC
To connect to your STB you must write in the upper part of FZC the following:
-your STB's address (something like 192.168.x.x - in PurE2 you will find it in MENU > pManager > Network > General Network Information > Local IP address is: ...)
-username (root)
-password (pure2 which is default for PurE2, openspa for OpenSPA etc.)
-port (21)
-press on Quick Connect
-send the ipk from your PC (left side of the screen) to the (right side of the screen) /tmp folder by "drag & drop" function...
Install the Image Manager
In PurE2 we do this by pressing MENU > pManager > Software Manager > Install local extensions > Memory /tmp > choose it/highlight it > press the green button to install it etc.
Now, download and decompress images you want to install into your STB onto your PC. I will demonstrate with PurE2, OpenATV and OpenSPA, on this occasion, having installed OpenATV v. 6.3 in the NAND-Flash.
Rename enigma2 folder
As you will see from the screenshot (bottom right side), I opened a compressed file with WinRAR to show you what is inside. It contains a folder named enigma2. All of such images have that, it's how it must be for installation from a USB stick. However, in this case we can and we need to change it. So, after I decompressed an image onto my PC, I have renamed the "enigma2" folder so it bears the name of the Team which produced it (upper right side)...
Send them on their merry way...
We can now move all 3 images into your STB. More precisely, we shall move all 3 of them into the largest /hdd partition no. 4 of your USB stick, using FZC. The main reason for this is - you can not install an image onto the same partition where you placed that image. It must be to a different partition than the one where you parked it...
Now, we are ready for installation of multiple images, using the Image Manager, which will - amongst other things - serve as a MultiBoot tool, as well.
Using Image Manager
Please, note that we shall install that tool in all of the images, because this way we shall be able to reboot to any of them, without using any other tool, keeping it all simple, neat and sexy...:rasta2bigsmoke0gf1:
MENU > Plugins > start Image Manager...
Installing an image onto USB stick partition using Image Manager
Once it starts, one moves the cursor to the right, using the > button on your Remote Control Unit (RCU) to get to "Installing" mode. Then, we go lower by pressing the v button on your RCU, in order to choose a partition to which we want to install the image of our choice... Of course, once you are done choosing, press OK on your RCU to execute, as the plugin itself suggests (see below)...
Now we need to find the image we want to install to the chosen partition by going to the /hdd partition (partition 4 in this case).
Then, we choose the image we want to install from the 4th (/hdd) partition, by entering the folder we placed there...
Then, choose the image file itself to start the installation...
Confirm by pressing OK...
Installation starts...
When finished it will look like this (proof for all 3 images installed):
Using Image Manager to reboot into an image of your choice
Having installed Image Manager plugin/tool in all of those images, as I said, one can use Image Manager to boot between images installed, either on your machine (NAND-Flash) or on your USB stick (as you named those folders, which will also appear as /dev/sda1, sda2, sda3, in my case).
Press OK to reboot to the image of your choice...
Done!
Dear Sir how to mount USB flash drive in pure2 image?
Read the post no. 25!
Display MoreFirstly, let me thank kindly @ahmed gazye for pointing out to this tool and his tutorial, which, of course, were my starting point! These tools are essential in a struggle to revive the old beauties, like Alien1/2 and so on...
However, while reading it I realised that I was struggling with it, for various reasons. Hence, I decided to make a simple and detailed tutorial, which will leave no stone unturned and be simple to understand and translate using online tools. The strategy deployed, as always, when I deal with these issues, is KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)!:*
IMPORTANT: "stupid" here is not meant offensively outwards - but it is rather turned inwards, to oneself, challenging oneself towards patience and simplicity of explanation, making everyone happier in the process, even if it makes me work too hard and therefore miserable at times...
Sooooo, let's keep it simple and to the point...;)
PREPARATION
One needs a USB stick, say 32GB, plugged into one's PC.
I partition it in 4 parts under Winblows OS, using freeware MiniTool Partition Wizard:
I shall be formatting all 4 partitions in Linux system EXT4. Three of them 2GB each and forth partition gets the rest. That's enough for me... (If you want more than 3 images installed in USB stick, follow Ahmed's tutorial!)
Right click on the USB stick and
-delete all the partitions which might already be on it
-create 4 partitions for 3 images + one which will serve as a HDD, as explained above
-set them all as "active"
-apply all the changes (left upper corner) and wait patiently...
When done, properly dismount the USB stick from your PC and plug it into the SH4 STB's back USB port.
Inside your STB
The rest I shall demonstrate on PurE2 image: MENU > pManager > Device Manager > Mount Manager > mount them as follows:
When done, after every significant change - and this is one of those! - you MUST REBOOT (do not start from FSTAB, just restart your machine!)!
Now, while you wait, download the ipk file here attached (Image Manager for SH4 STBs v. 2.5.5) and send it to the /tmp folder of your Enigma2. Use FileZilla Client freeware (FZC from now on) to do this: https://filezilla-project.org/download.php (this is 64b version).
Connect your PC with your STB using FZC
To connect to your STB you must write in the upper part of FZC the following:
-your STB's address (something like 192.168.x.x - in PurE2 you will find it in MENU > pManager > Network > General Network Information > Local IP address is: ...)
-username (root)
-password (pure2 which is default for PurE2, openspa for OpenSPA etc.)
-port (21)
-press on Quick Connect
-send the ipk from your PC (left side of the screen) to the (right side of the screen) /tmp folder by "drag & drop" function...
Install the Image Manager
In PurE2 we do this by pressing MENU > pManager > Software Manager > Install local extensions > Memory /tmp > choose it/highlight it > press the green button to install it etc.
Now, download and decompress images you want to install into your STB onto your PC. I will demonstrate with PurE2, OpenATV and OpenSPA, on this occasion, having installed OpenATV v. 6.3 in the NAND-Flash.
Rename enigma2 folder
As you will see from the screenshot (bottom right side), I opened a compressed file with WinRAR to show you what is inside. It contains a folder named enigma2. All of such images have that, it's how it must be for installation from a USB stick. However, in this case we can and we need to change it. So, after I decompressed an image onto my PC, I have renamed the "enigma2" folder so it bears the name of the Team which produced it (upper right side)...
Send them on their merry way...
We can now move all 3 images into your STB. More precisely, we shall move all 3 of them into the largest /hdd partition no. 4 of your USB stick, using FZC. The main reason for this is - you can not install an image onto the same partition where you placed that image. It must be to a different partition than the one where you parked it...
Now, we are ready for installation of multiple images, using the Image Manager, which will - amongst other things - serve as a MultiBoot tool, as well.
Using Image Manager
Please, note that we shall install that tool in all of the images, because this way we shall be able to reboot to any of them, without using any other tool, keeping it all simple, neat and sexy...:rasta2bigsmoke0gf1:
MENU > Plugins > start Image Manager...
Installing an image onto USB stick partition using Image Manager
Once it starts, one moves the cursor to the right, using the > button on your Remote Control Unit (RCU) to get to "Installing" mode. Then, we go lower by pressing the v button on your RCU, in order to choose a partition to which we want to install the image of our choice... Of course, once you are done choosing, press OK on your RCU to execute, as the plugin itself suggests (see below)...
Now we need to find the image we want to install to the chosen partition by going to the /hdd partition (partition 4 in this case).
Then, we choose the image we want to install from the 4th (/hdd) partition, by entering the folder we placed there...
Then, choose the image file itself to start the installation...
Confirm by pressing OK...
Installation starts...
When finished it will look like this (proof for all 3 images installed):
Using Image Manager to reboot into an image of your choice
Having installed Image Manager plugin/tool in all of those images, as I said, one can use Image Manager to boot between images installed, either on your machine (NAND-Flash) or on your USB stick (as you named those folders, which will also appear as /dev/sda1, sda2, sda3, in my case).
Press OK to reboot to the image of your choice...
Done!
Dear Sir how to mount partitioned USB in pure2 image?
By pressing blue button or ok button.
Explain it please with ss if possible
Dear Sir how to mount partitioned USB in pure2 image?
By pressing blue button or ok button.
Explain it please with ss if possibl
If you need extra help with PurE2 - it's here, in some detail:
Mounting devices/partitions in PurE2's Device Manager and which files to send where!
Generally speaking, no other image has this kind of support - I made sure everything you need is in PurE2 section, read at least the top, Sticky threads: PurE2 Image Team
Dear bro Ahmed is there a guide how to install images on external flash with plugin NFR4X Multiboot?
I installed opennfr image on internal flash of Amiko Alien 2 and i particioned usb flash to 4 partitions from which is 3 partitions ext4 1GB sized one partition fat32 5GB sized an I put zipped image on partition fat32. Do I put this usb flash on front usb port or rear usb port of the receiver?
Dear bro Ahmed is there a guide how to install images on external flash with plugin NFR4X Multiboot?
I installed opennfr image on internal flash of Amiko Alien 2 and i particioned usb flash to 4 partitions from which is 3 partitions ext4 1GB sized one partition fat32 5GB sized an I put zipped image on partition fat32. Do I put this usb flash on front usb port or rear usb port of the receiver?
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Dear bro Ahmed is there a guide how to install images on external flash with plugin NFR4X Multiboot?
I installed opennfr image on internal flash of Amiko Alien 2 and i particioned usb flash to 4 partitions from which is 3 partitions ext4 1GB sized one partition fat32 5GB sized an I put zipped image on partition fat32. Do I put this usb flash on front usb port or rear usb port of the receiver?
Wait for a topic to be prepared with pictures to fully explain the method so that all friends can benefit
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install Enigma2 Image on the external flash by Plugin Nfr4X Multiboot of opennfr in Spark Devices
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