x64 system running 18.04.20 doesn't work too well

[Substring]

@shamanmogz i don't get it ... It does find th root partition but can't have a share. Can you fdisk /dev/sda then p then enter and copy the result ? Press q then enter to quit

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring Ran fdisk as requested

# fdisk /dev/sda
fdisk: device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 267349.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
   (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 2199.0 GB, 2199023255040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 267349 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1               1           9       65536   c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/sda2               9         311     2424018  83 Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary

Command (m for help): q

[Substring]

@shamanmogz i think i get it : how big is yout drive ? The device has more than 2^32 sectors, can't use all of them looks like we can't build the share partition.

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring My hard drive is now 3TB.

• When I started out I was using a 0.5TB hard drive on 18.03.30
• I upgraded that drive to 18.04.20 using the inbuilt UI in recalbox
  Then the problems started to happen
• I then changed drives to 3TB and used a fresh 18.04.20 image

Is there a maximum HDD that is supported?

[Substring]

@shamanmogz you make me search real deep ...
Recalbox uses a MBR partition table, not GPT. This limits the numver of sectors to 2^32, which is around 2TB.

Going to GPT may not be a good idea yet.

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring Ok I will roll back to my 0.5TB drive for now unless you think I can partition my 3TB to give me 2x 1.5TB internal shares.

[Substring]

@shamanmogz why do you need that much space ? If it's fully loaded es will be real slow probably.

And no, we could eventually have a 2TB internal share, but nothing more, the last TB would be wasted

[voljega]

@substring for a full collection of all systems, 2TB is not enough

[ShamanMogz]

@substring It's more to do with i have a 3TB HDD kicking around so why not use it. I'm flashing the 0.5TB as I type.

[Substring]

@shamanmogz you would be a good guinea pig for some advanced logging i've been working on. Would you agree to give a try to it ? You'd just need to change the updates.type value in recalbox.conf, make the upgrade and report some logs

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring yeah i'm cool with that. is there a better way to do this rather than using forum posts?

[Substring]

@shamanmogz discord ?

[ShamanMogz]

@Substring sure, just installing it. Note i don't have a mic on this system - i can get hold of one in a few days, but for now it's just text chat. What's your server?

[Substring]

@shamanmogz we've advertised it some days ago. No need for a mic

By the way, we can do anneasier way : run bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start and give me the output please

[ShamanMogz]

@substring said in x64 system running 18.04.20 doesn't work too well:

bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start

Note: I'm back on a 0.5 TB drive and it's running ok

Using username "root".
root@recalbox's password:
# bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start
+ test start = stop
+ test start '!=' start
+ SHARECONFFILE=/boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-part.sh share_internal
+ INTERNALDEVICE=/dev/sda3
++ cat /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ grep sharedevice=
++ head -n1
++ cut -d= -f2
+ SHAREDEVICE=INTERNAL
+ [[ 0 -ne 0 ]]
+ [[ INTERNAL == '' ]]
+ INTERNALDEVICETYPE=ext4
++ getMaxTryConfig /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
++ SHARECONFFILE=/boot/recalbox-boot.conf
+++ grep -E '^[ \t]*sharewait[ \t]*=' /boot/recalbox-boot.conf
+++ sed -e 's+^[ \t]*sharewait[ \t]*=++'
++ X=
++ echo ''
++ grep -qE '^[0-9][0-9]*$'
++ echo 7
+ MAXTRY=7
+ NTRY=0
+ test -e /dev/sda3
+ RMODE=INTERNAL
+ echo INTERNAL
+ grep -qE '^DEV '
+ MODE=INTERNAL
+ case "${MODE}" in
+ /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-mount.sh ext4 1 /dev/sda3 /recalbox/share
mount: mounting /dev/sda3 on /recalbox/share failed: Device or resource busy
+ mount -t tmpfs -o size=128M tmpfs /recalbox/share
+ ls /var/run/usbmount.delay
+ read RULE
+ touch /var/run/recalbox.share.mounted
+ logpath=/recalbox/share/system/logs
+ for bootlogfile in '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
++ echo '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
++ sed 's|/tmp/logappend-||'
+ destfile='*.*'
+ cat '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
/etc/init.d/S11share: line 289: /recalbox/share/system/logs/*.*: No such file or                                                                          directory
+ rm '/tmp/logappend-*.*'
rm: can't remove '/tmp/logappend-*.*': No such file or directory

[Substring]

@shamanmogz d**n my bad. Reboot it then

cd /
/etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop
/etc/init.d/S92virtualgamepads stop
bash -x /etc/init.d/S11share start

[ShamanMogz]

@substring I just realised that although I changed the update option in the UI after a power cycle it hasn't persisted (so my last set of test results was invalid). Maybe I should change the updates.type value in the recalbox.conf file itself? If you agreem what should that value be?

Also on a different note, I have 4x 2GB ram sticks kicking about. I tried to add them in but Recalbox refuses to boot. Is there a max ram limitation (i have a 64 bit processor and am using the 64 bit build). Actually on that note, how do I know if my GT 710 graphics card has been installed properly?

lastly sorry for the delay - was away for the long weekend.

[Substring]

@shamanmogz i'm on holidays for now, ping me in a week for such a delicate topic

[SylGaud]

@shamanmogz said in x64 system running 18.04.20 doesn't work too well:

My system is a 64bit core 2 DUO (E6750) with a GT710 and 4GBs of RAM, 3TB HDD

Hi Shamanmogz,
I intend to buy a MSI GT 710 1GD3H LP --> according to what you say, GT710 works fine with RecalBox ?

Thanks

[SylGaud]

Well, the GT 710 works with RecalBox.
A bit laggy with Wii and GameCube (I use a 5 year-old compaq Elite, maybe I could tweak a bit) but it works.