Dual boot arch | recalbox

[bach]

Hi,

I'm new with recalbox but not with linux. i'm trying to installe recalbox in dual boot with archlinux booting with systemd-boot.
I have a few questions and i wanted to know what you think about it, if it will stand on the long run.

The box is a vorke v1 with a 64Go ssd and a 500Go hd
I installed the systems on the ssd, and used the hd as storage for roms

Partitionning (labels are important) :

sda (ssd)
sda1 500M BOOT
sda2 4G swap
sda3 20G RECALBOX
sda4 35G archlinux

sdb (hd)
sdb1 500G DATA

First I installed archlinux as usual, mounting the boot partition in /boot and installing systemd-boot as bootloader (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot)

Then i flashed an usbkey with the recalbox x86_64 img, pluged it in the vorke (sdc), and dd the main partition on sda3
dd if=/dev/sdc2 of=/dev/sda3 bs=4M status="progress"

Then i mounted the recalbox boot partition, copied bzImage and initrd.gz over to /boot and added an entry on systemd-boot /boot/loader/entries/recalbox.conf

title recalbox
linux /bzImage
initrd /initrd.gz
options root=UUID=...... rw label=RECALBOX sharewait=30

and finally i selected DATA as storage through recalbox interface

my two problems for now :
1 recalbox don't want to record my hd DATA as storage media, event with sharewait option
2 boot partition is not mounted on /boot and i can't figure out yet why

what do you think ?

[bach]

Hi again,

i solved my probleme, i was coming from my swap partition.
As explained here, recalbox expect to have 3 partitions : / in the middle, /boot first, and /share last (). So with my swap partition, boot was not mounted and recalbox-boot.conf not available of course.

So here is my new setup

sda (ssd)
sda1 500M BOOT
sda2 5G RECALBOX
sda4 55G archlinux

sdb (hd)
sdb1 500G SHARE

the systemd-boot entrie for recalbox

title recalbox
linux /bzImage
initrd /initrd.gz
options root=UUID=[UUID] rw label=RECALBOX

and my /boot/recalbox-boot.conf

sharedevice=DEV [UUID]
sharewait=30

every thing is running well now, with no hack at all