[PROBLEM] XBian 1.0 Beta 2 install

[mk01]

@all

lately (5-6months) BTRFS parts has been very much changing. For the actual conversion of ext4 to BTRFS there is special extra command as part of btrfs-tools. Only by accident we realised few version back, that all parts of btrfs tools work ok, but conversion failing. Under some unknown conditions. We retested previous version and that was working. XBian rebounded this to avoid the problems. But now seems it is maybe that older version failing and it is time to revert to latest possible. So we have to re-run and re-test the whole process again.

Inbetween XBian interns have been modified to such extend that it is not dependent in any way on BTRFS. Still it will try with changing the cmdline.txt and fstype=btrfs. But if you before reboot revert cmdline.txt (only parameters rootfstype and rootflags - currently booted (before xbian edited them) are still visible via "cat /proc/cmdline).

So if this is reverted, rebooted, XBian will boot just normally and work the same way.

Second option - just use XBian as installation you would normally Raspbian use. XBian is further developed Raspbian. The installation you get by going flash Raspbian + install XBian packages is exactly the same as flash XBian + install packages whose XBian doesn't install by default (to keep install minimal by default).

Just disable XBMC autostart, from ssh or console install lxde and libreoffice and all other packages we are excluding normally. ONLY and just this one difference is that XBian is set by default to conflict with raspberry-pi packages provided by Raspbian to update firmware files & kernel. But this happens either way because of better integration of XBMC. Of course this consider clean installs so if you have some kind of user data / history already while running Raspbian the first variant - with just adding XBian later is we all want to go.

But again, we have to retest from scratch so meanwhile avoid the conversion.

If any of you would open issue at github to have it properly followed later would be appreciated !