Retro Pi on a PC
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Hi. I have 30 Lenovo M58P, that I want to turn into arcade and donate to a local First Nation.
I have a great image from MLPIXEL (a 32GB) which boots on Rasperry Pi 3. I thought this was as simple as burning that image to an SSD, putting the SSD in a PC and booting it, but I am only getting a flashing cursor and nothing else.
I did check this in three different PC's so suspect something is screwy.
Can any one give me any ideas?
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@dereksanderson Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
Make sure you are using an official image, or have done a manual install yourself. We will not support 3rd party images.
You can't use RPI images on an X86 PC. Follow the instructions for installing on Ubuntu in our docs.
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@dereksanderson Firstly, the Raspberry Pi is an ARM based single board computer as opposed to a x86 intel based pc. You cannot therefore expect a linux based "image" that has been configured for a Raspberry Pi to boot on a pc. You will need to follow the documentation to achieve what you want...
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Debian
Second thing to note regarding "a great image from MLPIXEL (a 32GB) which boots on Rasperry Pi ". If this has roms then it is illegal. You should check out point 5 of https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first as indicated from @buzz as I was typing this very line.
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