Hacking Question Atmosphere won't finish booting after Switch logo

[pakoito]

I have followed all the steps outlined in https://rentry.co/SwitchHackingIsEasy to put Hekate and Atmosphere. I have used the latest versions and I believe my folder structure is correct.

After bootking hekate and trying to load Atmosphere I get the sequence seen in this video. After the Atmos logos it takes literal minutes to get to the Nintendo Switch screen, from which the CFW never finishes to boot and eventually goes on a blank screen.

This is a newly formatted Mini SD card, although it's on the oldish side, circa 2012.

What could I do to debug this behavior, and maybe apply a fix? I have tried the obvious ones of repeating the process, and SysNand boots just okay.

 

[petspeed]

How fast is the SD card and is it of good quality? Since it takes minutes for the Nintendo screen to appear it could be problems reading the SD card.

 

[pakoito]

I've ordered a new larger card in any case, and will report back tomorrow.

 

[Tom77_no]

I have followed all the steps outlined in https://rentry.co/SwitchHackingIsEasy to put Hekate and Atmosphere. I have used the latest versions and I believe my folder structure is correct.

After bootking hekate and trying to load Atmosphere I get the sequence seen in this video. After the Atmos logos it takes literal minutes to get to the Nintendo Switch screen, from which the CFW never finishes to boot and eventually goes on a blank screen.

This is a newly formatted Mini SD card, although it's on the oldish side, circa 2012.

What could I do to debug this behavior, and maybe apply a fix? I have tried the obvious ones of repeating the process, and SysNand boots just okay.

Had the same problem a while ago. Until I deleted the file exosphere.ini. Booted fine without this file.

 

[burhansalih]

its a config issue....Exosphere.INI should not stop your switch from booting

 

[pakoito]

Had the same problem a while ago. Until I deleted the file exosphere.ini. Booted fine without this file.

I just tried and it didn't work

Someone on reddit suggested using the Atmos that first introduced my firmware, because it still is from 2018/9

 

[pakoito]

[Closed] It was the SD card. It was only 8GB so my guess is the emuMMC wasn't created correctly.

 

[Draxzelex]

[Closed] It was the SD card. It was only 8GB so my guess is the emuMMC wasn't created correctly.

I believe there is a way to shrink emuMMC.