Timeline for Raspbmc boot failure on fresh install
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| May 7, 2013 at 15:48 | comment | added | anaximander | A friend with better Linux-fu than I has suggested switching filesystems; I was initially under the impression that Raspbmc used EXT-3 or -4 which (apparently) does a lot of R/RW to the journal, but it turns out I was looking at the wrong device and now I'm not sure which filesystem it uses. At any rate, the cause was definitely a dead card, and it's not that old so I'm pretty convinced that something is writing to the card much more than necessary. Not sure how Raspbmc would behave under a different filesystem though, or if it would even run. Definitely some googling needed. | |
| May 7, 2013 at 15:34 | comment | added | Butters | Glad you got it figured out... I wonder if there is a daemon that can be disabled to reduce unnecessary R/RW on the SD card... I would think would be the same process as optimizing for a SDD Hmmm.. Time for some googleing I think! | |
| May 7, 2013 at 8:23 | comment | added | anaximander | I tried it with a fresh card, and it boots just fine. It looks like continual journal writes have nuked the card... might be worth looking at a different filesystem, I think. | |
| May 7, 2013 at 8:23 | vote | accept | anaximander | ||
| May 3, 2013 at 21:58 | history | answered | Butters | CC BY-SA 3.0 |