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Pi Desktop: mSATA disk not recognized

rootard

Hello

I hope a Rasperry Pi guru or someone @ Element14 will be able to help me:

 

I just bought a brand new Pi Desktop case + Hat and swapped my fully functioning 3B+ Pi and mSATA disk into it, powered on and...nothing!

I couldn't have my Pi to boot: Kernel panic, the disk is not found, the mSATA LED doesn't flash, see image below.

 

Still my Pi boots ok from this disk mounted on a Maker Hawk x850 card (Transcend 64Gb mSATA HDD -  Raspian lite 2018-11-13 image)

 

What's wrong? Any hints?

Thanks

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  • Hi there

     

    I've investigated my problem further booting from the SDcard.
    With the Pi Desktop Hat card using a GL830 controller the disk geometry is not identical to my original MakerHawk X850 card, hence the boot issue with /dev/sda2:

     

    Jan  2 12:54:09 raspberrypi kernel: [  316.153334] EXT4-fs (sda2): bad geometry: block count 15618390 exceeds size of device (15618389 blocks)

    Jan  2 12:54:51 raspberrypi kernel: [  358.793118]  sda: sda1 sda2

    Jan  2 12:54:51 raspberrypi kernel: [  358.793483] sda: p2 size 124947120 extends beyond EOD, truncated

     

    original X850 card (used to create the partitions)

    Disk /dev/sda: 59.6 GiB, 64023257088 bytes, 125045424 sectors

    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Device Boot Start   End   Sectors  Size Id Type
    /dev/sda1    8192 98045 89854 43.9M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/sda2   98304 125045423 124947120 59.6G 83 Linux

     

    Pi Desktop (GL830):

    Disk /dev/sda: 59.6 GiB, 64023255040 bytes, 125045420 sectors

    Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Device Boot Start   End   Sectors  Size Id Type
    /dev/sda1    8192 98045 89854 43.9M  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/sda2   98304 125045423 124947120 59.6G 83 Linux

     

    What do you recommend me to do?

    Thanks

  • in reply to rootard

    Hi,

     

    I have the same issue.

    When the msata SSD disk is in an external USB box the pi3b+ boot correctly on it.
    But when I attached the msata SSD disk on the child card, I just have. a kernel panic saying that the root fs cannot be monted.Have you solved this issue?

     

    Regards