# Failed to start Resin flasher service

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/failed-to-start-resin-flasher-service/2291>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [December 14, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/failed-to-start-resin-flasher-service/2291 "2017-12-14T01:24:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![floion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/45deac/32.png) [@floion](https://forums.balena.io/u/floion)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2017, 5:45am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/failed-to-start-resin-flasher-service/2291/20 "2017-12-15T05:45:34Z")

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Hi @eliot . This [https://github.com/resin-os/meta-resin/commit/7a39577e0a36427e82efeab9a57b609f2c0e7c38](https://github.com/resin-os/meta-resin/commit/7a39577e0a36427e82efeab9a57b609f2c0e7c38) should make it that it won’t try to install on your USB stick from which you are booting.

If it’s the case that on your board the USB device is detected as sda and the internal media is detected as sdb, then you would also need to change [https://github.com/resin-os/resin-intel/blob/master/layers/meta-resin-intel/recipes-support/resin-init/resin-init-flasher.bbappend#L3](https://github.com/resin-os/resin-intel/blob/master/layers/meta-resin-intel/recipes-support/resin-init/resin-init-flasher.bbappend#L3) and add “sdb” there too.

Can you double check please that in your case the USB stick is detected as “sda” and the internal media is “sdb”?

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