1TB MiSTer Fully Loaded Image on hard disk

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1TB MiSTer Fully Loaded Image on hard disk

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Hi everyone,
I found a fantastic compilation for Mister on the arcade punks site that I transferred to a hard disk in June, because I couldn't find a 1 TB microsd at a fair price...
Once I had done all the operations I connected the hard disk to my Mister and from the appropriate menu I selected "switch to USB" and as if by magic the Mister restarted with the system it found on the hdd (the image would have to be downloaded to a microSD to be inserted in place of the one you already have) without any problems. It had its settings and configurations and everything worked perfectly.
A few days ago I picked up the Mister and the hdd again, I tried to do the same procedure but this time the Mister can't start...
Once I select "switch to USB" it goes into a loop and can't start the hdd system. I tried to save some .ini and .rbf files from the hdd and then overwrite them by taking them from the microsd that I use and update from Mister but unfortunately the result does not change, it always goes into a loop and cannot start.
The hdd is still recognized and its content is read by Mister, so it's fine like this because I have all the content downloaded, (1TB of stuff!!) but it has become a question of principle to make it work again as before.

Let me know if you have any ideas to try to start Mister from hdd again.

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Totally off topic but I grabbed that same 1TB Arcade Punks image you got.
About half of that 1TB image is full of Playstation Magazine cover disks!!

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Re: 1TB MiSTer Fully Loaded Image on hard disk

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There is not really any advantage to run the whole system from HDD. Put the cores on the SD and keep your roms on the HDD (or better yet a network drive for the best read speeds).

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Thanks for the answers, they are very important to me.
I apologize for the OT, I didn't know where to insert this question of mine. I will do as @SwedishGojira advised me because I think it's the best thing.

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Hi,
The linux kernel has been updated so you need to copy the files from /media/fat/linux to /media/usb0/linux.
I had the same problems and started just from the sd-card, plugged in the external hdd, got into the shell with F9, logged in and copied the said content with mc and everything worked again.

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I've lost about 32768 sd cards dieing, so I just keep the main mister files on it, the cores, and that's it. The rest goes on an old m.2 NVME 2tb card I had. I know I don't get it's speed, but it's tiny, fits in my wallet if I need to take it to anotherr Mister users etc.

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@niallquinn That's why I only use SanDisk-branded cards. I've yet to lose one in 15 years.

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Re: 1TB MiSTer Fully Loaded Image on hard disk

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testarossa wrote: Thu Oct 10, 2024 5:06 pm

Hi,
The linux kernel has been updated so you need to copy the files from /media/fat/linux to /media/usb0/linux.
I had the same problems and started just from the sd-card, plugged in the external hdd, got into the shell with F9, logged in and copied the said content with mc and everything worked again.

cheers

YOU ARE A LEGEND!!
Thanks for the info, I'll do it right away

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