mount 2nd partiton
Chris 'xc8' (13895) 7 posts |
hello It’s almost a decade since the last time I used RISC-OS so my memory is quite rusty, Just installed RO5 (5.30) on a RPi4 on a 16GB uSD, so far so good but the system does not auto-mount the second partition I ve created (FileCore formatted), I used the Partition Manager (!PartMgr) , IIRC I need to declare somewhere (on config?) the number of disks, alas the config app has only options for FDD and SCSI HDDs … chris |
Stuart Painting (5389) 712 posts |
RISC OS 5 FileCore doesn’t understand partitions, hence you can only mount one FileCore drive per device (any additional FileCore partitions are inaccessible). If you want a second FileCore drive, it needs to be on a different physical device. |
Chris 'xc8' (13895) 7 posts |
thanks Stuart! |
Simon Willcocks (1499) 509 posts |
Isn’t there a way to pretend to FileCore that a second partition is a separate device, like another card that’s been plugged in? |
Stuart Painting (5389) 712 posts |
There were one or two solutions for IDE drives on RISC OS 3 (Partis Computing springs to mind) but I don’t know of any that worked with RISC OS 5. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
SimTec IDE as well, plus Morley SCSI. I’m not aware of any of this making it to the 32 bit world. |
Chris 'xc8' (13895) 7 posts |
Just to update my case: I mounted a larger uSD card, using a USB card reader, then from !PartMgr → Initialise Pi Boot Drive (on the ‘new’ uSD), this will display a window with options YMMV, this will create a FileCore partition with the max of the uSD size minus 50MB – for second PiBoot FAT partition. Next step was to copy all the files from the main uSD card to the mounted ‘new’ uSD. Thats it. |