[CaptSunset]

Keeping this background short as possible, I have 3 Pi 2Bs.
(Two are meant to be gifts come Christmas, I'm making custom cases & compilations.)

My first idea was to clone the 'primary' SD card, so I could learn on one Pi and have 2 backups available if I got in any trouble.

The original installation went flawlessly as far as Kodi in OpenELEC & Raspbian Wheezy are concerned, (except that Kodi plays sound great and I can't get any sound at all from Wheezy apps. The Official Pi forum has no answers on that ...)

At this stage, after upgrades and a few added apps like Libre Office (works surprisingly well) I cloned the 'Unit 1' SD card (16 Gb Class 10 Sandisk). The two cloned cards behave the same as far as Raspian is concerned- fine but no sound.

My problem cropped up the first time I tried to load Kodi from one of the cloned SD cards on call it 'Unit 2'.

The OpenELEC boxed TV splash screen appeared; but then so did a terminal text message in the corner-

*** ERROR IN MOUNT_STORAGE: MOUNT_COMMON: COULD NOT MOUNT UUID + bf4f835f - 7c28 - 4138 - 9295 - qc94514dda3c ***
### Starting Debugging Shell...
type exit to quit ###
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
# exit

Googling this error didn't give much help; is the problem that a cloned card is locked to a mobo, or is there a software issue, and is it in the underlying OS or should I give up on 'mastering' SD cards on one machine?

I can't even find MOUNT_STORAGE, and the device is not any drive except perhaps a partition on the main SD card.
I bet it's simple, but I can't make out what's wrong here...

[dandnsmith]

Probably an attempt to use one of the partitions on the SD card, and the partition on the clone has different ID.
A lot depends on how you cloned the card.
Don't be surprised if you don't get a lot of help here, as this isn't really a Kodi question, and is OS specific.

[zephura]

Hi

My advice, asks on the openelec forum.

2 questions :
1/ how do you clone your SD card? (dump the image of the 1st SD Card / then write the image on a new SD-card)
or did you juste copy/paste?

2/ how you checked the UUID (Universally unique identifier) is really the good number

Code:

osmc@rpi:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="0007e7a9" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: UUID="4085-6432" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0007e7a9-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="b2328095-8380-42d0-8ee2-16b168d76d1e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="0007e7a9-02"

and check at least your fstab file is appropriate

Code:

osmc@rpi:~$ sudo cat /etc/fstab
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot    vfat     defaults,noatime    0   0
/dev/mmcblk0p2  /    ext4      defaults,noatime    0   0
192.168.31.11:/OSMC /home/osmc/.kodi  nfs  defaults,nolock,x-systemd.automount  0 0

[Milhouse]

Don't use UUID in cmdline.txt if "cloning" systems (just use the /dev/<partition> notation instead), or edit the UUID to match each cloned system.

[CaptSunset]

Thanks, & sorry for the delay, guys; I typed up a detailed response but somehow must have just previewed it, was one of those days.

just fyi, I used SDFormatter to prep the SD cards, and Win32DiskImager to perform the cloning. At one point I was asked if I wanted to expand the partition to the whole card and said Yes to that.

that UUID came up automatically within the error message itself.