No boot on Retropie.

fun_society5-9

I am sure this has been mentioned on here before but I have not been able to find an exact thread that deals with my issue, so I apologize if I was unable to find it.

I am trying to get Retropie working on a Zero W, using a Sandisk Ultra PLUS 16 GB micro SD. I have downloaded the image and mounted it using Etcher. When I get everything plugged in and give it the power supply, I get nothing. No lights turn on the Pi, but the light for the USB hub that I have connected turns on so I know it isn't a power supply issue. I have also used an SD that has Raspian I had laying around put into the Zero and had no issue booting it up.

Is there something I am missing?

simonster

@fun_society5-9

I will assume you know what your doing with Etcher to write the card, as you have Raspbian installed on another card.

Can you confirm the image name and where you downloaded it from?

Thanks

Si

fun_society5-9

Downloaded off Retropie.org.uk

Image name is "retropie-4.3-rpi1_zero.img.gz"

The tutorial that I was using told me to drop the .gz off of the file name and I still get nothing.

BuZz

@fun_society5-9 Which tutorial? You should be able to write the file directly. You shouldn't change the extension - it will probably stop it from unpacking then.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

fun_society5-9

@buzz I don't recall which one it is off the top of my head that I was looking at, all I know is it was on Youtube, I am sure I could find it again if I looked. I have tired burning the image with and without the .gz extension and still get the same result. I even just tried to use Win32Diskimager and I still can't get it to boot. Same thing, LED on the USB hub lights up but the Rasp Zero is dark.

simonster

Can you explain step by step, as I'm sure you must be missing something?

I use win32diskimager and so I would

Download the file from http://retropie.org.uk/download
Use 7-zip to extract the .IMG file from the .gz file
Insert my SDCard, check I can see a drive on it. If not use diskmgmt.msc to check the card, delete old partitions and create a single fat32 partition.
Once I can read a drive in explorer then
Open Win32diskimager, select the file and the SD card drive letter to write to. Click write.

I'm probably over paranoid with regard to drive letter and partition checking. However, the reason I check the drive letter is that I have in the past accidentally imaged to a usb stick or portable hard drive by accident, doh! I once lost over 800gb of files including old pictures and videos as I wrote a Raspbian image to my external hard drive, not a pleasant experience .

Si