Help, i can't create a bootable USB Drive

Libretro Lakka
#1

I downloaded Lakka yesterday and i tried to create a bootable USB drive with Win32 Disk Imager.

After using Win32 Disk Imager i can’t open my USB drive anymore. Windows says that i need to format the USB drive to use it.

The same thing happened when i tried to do the same using the Roadkill.net software instead of Win32 Disk Imager .

When i tried creating the USB drive with unetbootin, it worked well, but when i tried to boot Lakka on my old laptop with that USB drive i got this error:

“Starting debugging shell… type exit to quit sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off”

I’m trying to get Lakka working on a HP 530 laptop.

#2

Did you not forget to gunzip the file first ?

Can you try to use Rufus with option Create bootable disk with DD Image.

Did you try another usb port ?

#3

I have the exact same issue, when booting into lakka and selecting the live option it gives me this error after a while:

Error in mount_storage: mount_common: Could not mount UUID=<some long uuid> Starting debugging shell… type exit to quit sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off

I can type “exit” to continue booting, everything works fine but I guess the /storage partition isn’t mounted and changes aren’t persistent

I tried different USB drive utilities and different USB ports, using the latest 64bit img (Lakka-Generic.x86_64-devel-20160206090840-r21311-geaf46ad.img)

#4

same issue has been posted here

http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4174

I believe it might be specific to the 64 bit pc version. As I have tried different usb’s/ ports/ and computers… same message

#5

I had this issue, but tried a newer nightly build (e.g. http://sources.lakka.tv/nightly/Generic.x86_64/Lakka-Generic.x86_64-devel-20160308195456-r21363-g404a9cd.img.gz) and it worked ok, so it must be related to the specific build on the download page. Hope that helps.

#6

I had the issue too, it’s related only to x86_64 stable version of Lakka.

If you try to burn the image in a usb stick with dd or unetbootin, Lakka doesn’t boots. If you burn it with win32diskimager, it boots, but if you try to run it live, you get the message Kaito10 says.

To solve it, I did the following: Burn the image in a usb with win32diskimager Boot lakka and select install mode I installed it on another usb stick, so I can carry it wherever I want Lakka x86_64 runs fine once it is installed.

Anyway you do it, Windows doesn’t recognise the partitions, so if you don’t want to use samba/ssh to configure your lakka you have to plug the usb on a linux pc.