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Help with first power up

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    EliteAnorak
    last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 21:26

    Pi Model: 3
    Power Supply: 2.5A Power Supply
    RetroPie Version: 4.2
    Built From:Pre Made SD Image on Retro Pie Website
    USB Devices Connected: none yet
    Controllers Uses: None yet
    Error Message received: "end Kernel panic - not syncing: Requested init /usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh failed (error -8)"
    Guide Used: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

    All Ive done so far is install the image on an sd card (using Win32DiskImager) that I formatted (using SD Card Formatter). Whenever I start it up, I get that error code almost immediately. I thought I mightve gotten a bad SD card, so I got another one but resulted in the same error. Any ideas?

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      HurricaneFan
      last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 21:51

      Looking at the expand file system stuff, looks like you can manually try to kick it off again.

      https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md

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        EliteAnorak
        last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 21:57

        I cant even do anything with the pi, let alone manually starting it again. I plug in the power, and I get a black screen with lines of code ending with that error.

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          HurricaneFan @EliteAnorak
          last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 22:00

          @eliteanorak Was your 4.2 image unzipped before you wrote it to the 2 SD cards?

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            akafox @EliteAnorak
            last edited by akafox 17 Sept 2017, 22:00

            @eliteanorak If all else fails..try Etcher instead to write your image. There is a chance your image might be corrupted during download as well.
            As HurricaneFan said make sure to uncompress it. Make sure your card is formated fat32...the rewrite the image.

            People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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              EliteAnorak @HurricaneFan
              last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 22:05

              @hurricanefan I did unzip it, but I didnt really trust that program. Im installing 7zip now.

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                EliteAnorak @akafox
                last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 22:07

                @akafox I just finished reformatting my sd card to FAT32, and Im going to use Etcher to write the image. After I use 7zip to unzip the file.

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                  akafox @EliteAnorak
                  last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 22:07

                  @eliteanorak I was going to ask about that...yeah..7zip is MUCH better.

                  People want things easy...but then complain that life is boring...

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                    HurricaneFan @EliteAnorak
                    last edited by 17 Sept 2017, 22:09

                    @eliteanorak Good luck!

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