Can't mount v3.60~39 image

Beta testing Venus OS beta testing
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For making file sets for my packages I mount the Raspberry PI 4 firmware image using the native tools within Mac OS and extFsForMac. The latter adds ext file system support.

I rename the .wic file to …img and double click on it and it mounts the boot partition and extFsForMac shows the root partition which I then mount from there.

With v3.60~39, extFsForMac shows what should be the root partition as “Unsupported” and a verify within extFsForMac reports exit code 12 (file system has errors + “operational error”) from fsck. In previous Venus OS versions, the root partition mounts; without errors.

I verified that a previous version of the RPI4 VenusOS version mounts as expected.

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Still an issue with v3.60~43 on the testing feed.

Has something changed in the way these images are built?

This will be a show stopper for future development of SetupHelper and GuiMods if it can not be resolved.

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Still true with v3.60~53.

In addition, I imaged an SD card using Raspberry PI Imager and this also would not mount the EXT4 partitions on my Mac (using extFSforMac).

The SD card does boot in a PI 4 however.

I am afraid unless I can find a solution to this I will need to end development of all my Venus OS packages !!!

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Hi @kwindrem , I’m sorry I had totally missed these messages.

Its possible indeed that the way those images have been built has changes, since we made quite an upgrade in the underlying build system.

I’ll ask someone to have a look and help you with this - I’m sure there is a solution.

Matthijs

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extFsForMac needs to be updated to understand a new capability flag.

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Thanks Jeroen. Will Paragon know what is needed or is there more info I can supply them?

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It will likely complain about this: “/dev/mmcblk1p2 has unsupported feature(s): FEATURE_C12”, but please make sure you run updates first, we aren’t doing something special.

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And if you google FEATURE_C12, the basic answer is, “Get a newer version”. Hence I said: “but please make sure you run updates first” and that is for your Mac of course.

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Issue resolved.

Paragon has a new version of extFsForMac (11.6.1) but I needed to upgrade to Mac OS Sequoia to get it !!!

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