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    Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

    I'm having an issue booting my RPi1 B.

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      maxlongbow1
      last edited by maxlongbow1

      Give the error message "not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(178,2)".
      I've already tried everything on this forum to no avail. https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10935/retropie-kernel-panic-not-syncing-vfs-unable-to-mount-root-fs-on-unknown-block-179-2

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        Looks like a bad sdcard or badly written SD card image. The message is a generic I can't find the partition named /root to start the system, which can happen for various reasons, but on a freshly written sdcard image is most likely an incorrectly written image.

        Which image did you use to image your card and how did you write it ?

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          maxlongbow1 @mitu
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          @mitu I ended up figuring it out (by accident), I had 2 partitions on the SD card. Even though there was only one named root it was confusing the system. I was using the image for pi 0/1 and had imaged the card with Win32DiskImager.

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