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4:24 am
Ken
January 1, 2019
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Posting this to help others who may encounter the same problem I did…
I downloaded this image and it wouldn’t boot on my Pi 4 8GB with upgraded firmware to boot from USB.
To get it working, I had to boot it from another Pi 4 4GB that hadn’t been upgraded to boot from USB yet. Then go to Terminal and do the following:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
After that, the image boots and runs great on the Pi 4 with upgraded firmware.
Thanks, Damaso! Awesome image!!
7:48 pm
May 14, 2015
Offline All running good ?
12:52 pm
Ken
January 1, 2019
Offline Yes. Everything is running great now. 
5:50 pm
May 14, 2015
Offline pastrychef said
Yes. Everything is running great now.
Awesome !!
12:57 am
That doesn’t work. The update and upgrade upgrade the software but not the firmware. And how do you boot from an usb from a pi that hasn’t been upgraded to boot from a usb? That post needs clarification.
1:43 pm
Ken
January 1, 2019
Offline 1. I updated my 8GB Pi to new firmware that allows USB booting.
2. I tried the default Damaso image from an SD card on the 8GB Pi. It did not boot.
3. I tried the default Damaso image from an SD card on my 4GB Pi that did not have the firmware update for USB booting. The Damaso image booted and worked.
4. I performed the update/upgrade on the Damaso image on my 4GB Pi.
5. Now, the Damaso image boots and runs perfectly on my 8GB Pi.
I have not tried cloning the Damaso image from SD card to USB drive.
3:59 pm
Your post is much clearer. To be fair your title is a bit misleading since it references usb booting which would suggest that you tried booting the image via a usb drive instead of a sd card. I now understand that your attempts involved a sd card and not a usb drive.
6:39 pm
Ken
January 1, 2019
Offline The title was changed by a mod…
4:26 am
Thank you a lot, this solved my issue too.
And as far as I can see, this info should be included on the download page of the image.
2:42 pm
Hi. I have a RPI4b 4GB up to date. I had to do some mods to boot the image from USB HDD. It boots the intro video and after thet i get the message “failed to add service – already in use?”. Any ideas what the problem could be. Many thanks in advance.
9:13 pm
Ken
January 1, 2019
Offline Sorry. I don’t know. I have not tried booting from USB with this image.
11:17 am
Makemm said
Hi. I have a RPI4b 4GB up to date. I had to do some mods to boot the image from USB HDD. It boots the intro video and after thet i get the message “failed to add service – already in use?”. Any ideas what the problem could be. Many thanks in advance.
Hello, I’m having the same issue. Did you manage to solve the problem? I tried googling but I found only>
EmulationStation failing to start, “failed to add service – already in use?”
byu/cam5478 inRetroPie
It’s 1 y old and it didn’t help.
Thanks
Jiri
9:15 am
Finally I get it working on Raspberry pi 4 4GB RAM and USB HDD:
1. Burn image to Normal HDD use Win32DiskImager or use linux command:
Damaso.img – source file; /dev/sdi – HDD
OR DD linux:
dd if=Damaso.img of=/dev/sdi bs=1024k status=progress
2. Resize partition (/dev/sdi2/:
See list of partition and Sectors:
df -h
Device Start END
/dev/sdi1 8192 532480 …W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sdi2 540672 818370864
fdisk /dev/sdf
d #delete
n # create
2 #2nd partition
First Sector: 540672
Last Sector: ENTER (depends on size HDD you have)
(THE SAME AS the original – my case 840672)
Remove signature: N
w #write the settings
check disk needed:
e2fsck -f /dev/sdi2
Resize to max. size:
Resize2fs /dev/sdi2
3. Download boot folder from git hub: https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
4. overwrite all files from boot folder on 1st partition boot
5. Boot up with HDD without SD card. Now you see “failed to add service – already in use”
6. Make update (without resizing partition you won’t be able to do this):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
7. Reboot and you are done!
8. If anything goes wrong try updating EEPROM to latest version.
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