Extremely slow initial build

[arrrghhh]

Originally Posted by mzel

hi all. Excuse me my noob question. I am trying to instal xdandroid 7.1 for very first time. I followed the instructions and it looked fine first. However the stage of the data.img build where it traces the linux commands in white on black which supposed to take 1-2 min is already going on for an hour and is still not finished.
I am suspecting the sd card is slow, but this slow?
What else can it be?
thanks

Anything beyond 10 minutes is bad.

Common pitfalls are forgetting ts-calibration (manual or downloaded versions) and forgetting rel_path= if the build is not placed at the root of the SD card (within any folders).

Check these things - if neither of those apply, try to read what's on the screen and perhaps we can try to decipher what's going on.