usbromservice

giandeejay

Hi
I use retropie 4.8.9 with hdd1 (the name is not important is the 1st usb harddisk) where Usbromservice is enabled and working, but when I changed it whit a 2nd working hdd2 (/dev/sda2)
Usbromservice is still active on both (and not only on 2nd) hard drive so I get error: usbromaservice failed to start on /dev/sda1 ... systemctl status ....etc

Then after 15seconds retropie starts normally on hdd2..
(Yes it's normal i have disconnected the 1st hdd)...
Next /dev/sda2 (hdd2) is correct mapped and retropie usbromservice working well on /dev/sda2

My question is how to tell to system that now I want to delete /dev/sda1 linked to 1st hdd1 and to work with only hdd2 renamed in /dev/sda1 ..
Is there a method to restore usbromservice usb hdd mappings ?

I want /dev/sda1 to be mapped on second hard disk hdd2 and work with usbromservice.

Instead my situation is
/dev/sda1 is mapped on hdd1 (but this hard disk is deprecated) and not connected
Instead /dev/sda2 is working on hdd2

So to have a clean boot without error unable to mount /dev/sda1, maybe i must tell to linux :
re-link /dev/sda1 to my 2nd hdd2, and forget uuid of 1st hdd1.

But I don"t have any idea to do this
Can you help me?.

mitu

The /dev/sdX device names are not controlled by usbromservice, but assigned automatically by the system (Linux). A 2nd (connected) USB HDD would appear as /dev/sdbX though, not /dev/sdaY and you cannot 're-link' /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda2.

What partitions do you have on the (new) HDD ?
Run the following commands and post the output:

sudo lsblk
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

giandeejay

@mitu
hi Mitu,
maybe I understood usbmountservice problem (thank to lsblk command)..

My disk has 2 partition /dev/sda1 (16 Mb) and /dev/sda2 (465GB) where retropie-mount is.
So maybe I have to delete the 1st unused (ex microsoft partition).

Do you think this can be the right solution ?

I think that finally having only 1 partition on hdd2 the next time I will use usbromservice it will be map as
/dev/sda1...

Without boot warnings.

mitu

@giandeejay said in usbromservice:

Do you think this can be the right solution ?

If you don't need the 1st partition, yes, otherwise you can just ignore the error for /dev/sda1.

giandeejay

@mitu thank you problem solved:
Deleted 1st partition (unused 16mb)
And now /dev/sda1 is correctly mounted ...on my hdd2...465gb
Retropie boots quickly and without warnings.
Thanks