Sony vaio p no hard drive found

Libretro Lakka
#1

Hello, After a failed attempt with resolutions on puppy arcade i thought i’d try Lakka. Wich looks quite sleek i must say :stuck_out_tongue:

But okay i am trying to put it on a sony vaio p model p21z 1.33.ghz intel atom z520. I cannot load the live enviroment for some reason… it just hangs at the logo without any text or error on screen i left it for like 10 mins…

Puppy arcade and other distributions i was able to load the live versions…

When i goto the installer it says it can’t find my HDD… Or partition. I tried it with unallocated space and a fat32 partition. in both cases it doesn’t recognize it.

What can i do?

EDIT: Maybe some handy information. The harddrive in this particular model is a 1.8" PATA drive with a ZIF connector. From toshiba.

#2

I am not sure if it is because the option has not been enabled in kernel config. Anyway, can you try to make a test with the latest nightly build available ? But your device is using intel gma 500 graphic card and it is unfortunately not well supported on Linux.

#3

haha trust me i know GMA500 is the worst :stuck_out_tongue: even in windows its a drag… it is not my number one device , this will be a project once up and running Hmm i see that it is not set in the kernel… In the nightly build is this one activated? I will test this when i get home tonight

EDIT: Some other question sprung to my mind. I do need a fat32 partition? No EXT4? Couldn’t really find any info when i followed the steps on the website

#4

I cannot load the live enviroment for some reason… it just hangs at the logo without any text or error on screen

That is why I ask you to try with new version. First to get it work with the live version then we will check how to get your disk working.

If I remember correctly the only thing is to have at least one partition on the drive so that the installer can work.

#5

Well ok i got a little progress. When i start the live version now i get the bit where its resizing storage and then proceeds to reboot.

After that it started some scripts: OK Started OpenSSH server daemon. OK reached target multi user system OK reached target graphical interface Starting retroarch user autostart script OK Started retroarch user autostart script OK started retroarch OK reached target retroarcch. And it has been stuck at this step for like 10 minutes/

Also what is weird i tried this on my Dell XT2 Core2duo 1.4gHz. When i try to boot my usb it says no bootsector found. Does it maybe matter what kind of usb drive i used? I got it on this little 1.8" Toshiba 18gb portable drive. It is seen in windows as a HDD not a USB Therefore most of the times i want to create a bootable drive the program Rufus (wich i normally use) Doesnt recognize it. i had to use universal usb installer with the option Show all drives. But that is with other OSs

Because Lakka came in .img i want able to use any of the above programs. The win32disk imager did reconize my usb drive though

#6

Can you try to ssh your device if it is connected on ethernet and try to type :

systemctl stop retroarch 
retroarch --menu --verbose >> log.txt 2>&1

And copy the output of dmesg to hastebin for example, just type :

dmesg

You can use Rufus with option Create bootable disk with DD Image.

#7

Unfortunatly i dont have an ethernet port. It is only by some kind of dongle via the proprietary port. with a vga out and more usb port. Problem is that doesn’t work without proper drivers. Wich i recall where never made for linux

#8

It will be difficult to debug. Do you get wifi connexion with other linux distribution ?

#9

i think we are reaching here man, i will try it on a real usb stixk and not a portable hdd…

Should i create a partition ext4 for the install? or another file format to recognize my latops hdd

#10

If you can’t ssh, can you try some boot arguments (Press Tab when the menu shows up and add them at the end of the line) ? nosplash debugging or nosplash textmode so that you can get some information on what is going on.

Nothing special is required ext4, fat, ntfs will work for your hdd if you use live usb to load file from your hdd.

#11

An issue has been created for your hdd support.

#12

Ok i wil try this when i have more free time. Work is really busy at the moment. Thank you for putting it on the issues list with my HDD. I will report when i got more information.

#13

I added the kernel module. The change will land in the next development build.

#14

Ok so i pressed tab at the menu

After logfile =2 i tried either nosplash debugging or nosplash textmode but the moment i press enter it goes to the lakka logo and nothing else…

#15

i guess this is a dead end? Because the same usb stick does boot on ther pc’s just not this little vaio

#16

I have found that the module for your graphic card is not enabled so I have opened an issue.

Please try with this nightly build the module has been enabled in it.

#17

Ah ok so that may explain the freezing during boot up?

I will try this tonight when i get home from work.

#18

Well again no luck…

It freezes at the point: OK reached target retroarch.

It booted under 1 minute on my dell xt2

Its really weird that i cannot get the textmode to work… Otherwise we could see what the hell is going on,.

#19

Adding boot parameter textmode shoud give you acces to a shell. From there can you try to get some information?

#20

A collegue of mine said to me to try nomodeset in grub… but i end up with the same result. Now for the text mode i did finally get it to work. Ok the picture is too big for the forum