HoloISO install on custom PC won't format SD Card

[karmarainsblue]

Edit: My deck came in, and I gave up on trying to do this. Thanks to everyone who replied and tried to help.
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I have the OS installed on a machine with a Ryzen 3200g, 32gb of ram, and a 256gb SSD. The install went just fine, and SteamOS updated to 3.2. I bought a 1tb Sandisk microSD card and wanted to prepare it for my Steam Deck (when I'm finally able to order it). So, I throw my microSD into a USB adapter, plug it into my PC (running SteamOS 3.2), the OS notices the card, the format option becomes available, I tell it to format, annnnd....I get "Format Error. No microSD card found. Please insert a microSD card into the card slot and try again." So...is there a trick to this? How do I tell the OS that my microSD is, in fact, the droid it is looking for?

Desktop mode will read the card, but I don't see any options anywhere to format it. And even IF I could format it, would game mode still fail to see the card because it isn't in the "card slot"? I tried all of my USB ports...SteamOS doesn't consider any of them to be my "card slot". How can I get this card formatted and recognized properly in SteamOS so I can set it up with games and emulators? Thanks for your time should you choose to reply.

 

[Compi]

Could you please run "lsblk -f" in the terminal and post the output here?

 

[karmarainsblue]

Could you please run "lsblk -f" in the terminal and post the output here?

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1 exfat 1.0 D4F7-DD63 953.5G 0% /run/media/MYUSERNAME/D4F7-
DD63
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1
│ vfat FAT16 HOLOEFI
│ A8D2-7D75
├─nvme0n1p2
│ btrfs holo-root
│ 2a0f885f-2e7f-48cd-a4a5-77dcd81bd8bc 14.6G 30% /
└─nvme0n1p3
ext4 1.0 holo-home
e8926af8-da43-42ad-acaf-e24be1d34bc8 189.6G 3% /home

 

[GJ Johnson]

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1 exfat 1.0 D4F7-DD63 953.5G 0% /run/media/MYUSERNAME/D4F7-
DD63
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1
│ vfat FAT16 HOLOEFI
│ A8D2-7D75
├─nvme0n1p2
│ btrfs holo-root
│ 2a0f885f-2e7f-48cd-a4a5-77dcd81bd8bc 14.6G 30% /
└─nvme0n1p3
ext4 1.0 holo-home
e8926af8-da43-42ad-acaf-e24be1d34bc8 189.6G 3% /home

One of the potential problems here is that the SD Card is formated in exfat rather than fat32, you should try formatting it using Rufus to fat32 as a non bootable drive.

 

[Compi]

If he want to format it for the Deck, which is Linux, you should try ext4 honestly.

Command should be "sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1"

 

[GJ Johnson]

If he want to format it for the Deck, which is Linux, you should try ext4 honestly.

Command should be "sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1"

Just keep in mind, karmarainsblue, that the ext4 filesystem can't be natively read on Windows. You'll have to find a workaround if you want to transfer files using that card as well (At least from a windows computer).

 

[Compi]

That's right

 

[Jas8472]

You can go to the developer options and force the format

 

[theVakhovske]

The deck's formatting tool is hardcoded for use with "/dev/mmcblk0p1" node. That's why you're greeted with error as soon as you try to format any other device since it can't find the node

 

[Jas8472]

You can force the format from the developer options