Default boot order Topic is solved

[schlumpf222]

Hi,

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with the latest firmware and I'm booting with an SSD through USB. However the booting time is really long and I get these two lines:

vc_vchi_sm_init: failed to open VCH service (-1)
vc_sm_connected_initil: failed to initialize shared memory service

Why does it take so long to boot through SSD? Is there any way I can speed it up?

Thank you

[Joulinar]

Hi,

many thanks for your message. You could ignore these 2 lines. There have nothing to do with the long boot time. Once your system is booted up, you could run following to check timings during boot.

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systemd-analyze blame

[schlumpf222]

Thanks for the swift response.
After reboot I got:

[FAILED] DietPi-Login | Failed to load DietPi-Globals. Skipping DietPi login scripts...

after running systemd-analyze blame:

2min 37s dev-sda2.device
1min 6s console-setup.service
36s networking.service
35s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service.

the remaining are in ms

[Joulinar]

uhh wow 2.5 minutes to mount SDA2 drive. There seems to be something relay slow

[schlumpf222]

Yeah, I that it is slow...

I googled a bit more and found that others have reported similar issues with the USB to SATA adapter
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3070


Bus 002 Device 002: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 2109:3431 VIA Labs, Inc. Hub

I guess I have to look for another one but not sure how to know which would be compatible.

Thanks again for the help, Joulinar!

[Joulinar]

to bad, sorry that I'm not able to help. Maybe you can google the adaptors you have in mind and check if they are using JMicron chipset or not

[schlumpf222]

Hi, just wanted to report that the SATA to USB adapter was the issue.
I got a new SSD case which solved the problem. Thanks for the help
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B ... UTF8&psc=1