RPi 3B+ won't boot up with RetroPie

PMiki

I have bougth a new RPi 3B+ and try to install RetroPie on it.
But with the image a have no succes, it's stay on the ranibow screen.

What I can do? When will awaiable the new compatible image?

PMiki.

Alturis

I haven't tried this yet myself but apparently you need to install the Stretch image instead of the older Jessie Image:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16145/retropie-upgrading-raspbian-jessie-to-stretch

ClassicGMR

You need to use the beta image of RetroPie to boot the 3B+.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16307/retropie-4-3-15-stretch-images-for-testing

Working great for me right now.

Dessy

ive got it to install but no wifi showing any ideas ?

Dessy

excuse my noobness, im new to all this and learning quickly :) all sorted keep up the good work ;)

ClassicGMR

@dessy :

"WiiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only)

The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui),
'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166
alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf."

Dessy

@classicgmr thanks for reply, yes when i re-read the small print i worked it out lol :D

PMiki

@classicgmr said in RPi 3B+ won't boot up with RetroPie:

You need to use the beta image of RetroPie to boot the 3B+.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/16307/retropie-4-3-15-stretch-images-for-testing

Working great for me right now.

Thank You !

It's works now :-)

PMiki

Alturis

@classicgmr said in RPi 3B+ won't boot up with RetroPie:

"WiiFi is disabled until wireless regulatory domain is set (Pi 3 B+ only)

The domain can be done through 'Raspberry Pi Configuration' (rc_gui),
'raspi-config' or by setting 'country=' to an appropriate ISO 3166
alpha2 country code in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf."

Hmmm... I ran raspi-config and I am not seeing anything about a country code or regulatory domain option in the settings.

Alturis

@alturis said in RPi 3B+ won't boot up with RetroPie:

Hmmm... I ran raspi-config and I am not seeing anything about a country code or regulatory domain option in the settings.

Well I edited the wpa_supplicant.conf manually and it turns out the country code was already set to GB by default. So it probably would have worked regardless but I updated it to my country and all is well.

So this process seemed to have worked just fine for me as well. I did the full upgrade process on my Pi3B then simply swapped the SD card over to my Pi3B+ and it appears everything is working as expected.

Edit: One possible downside is that I notice my SD card used space jumped from 7.6 gigs to 9.1 so either stretch is significantly bigger than jessie, there are leftover cruft files that might not be there in a fresh install, or some combination thereof.

gjlutz

I'm still struggling with this. I've attempted to edit this manually - but I must be doing it wrong - as the Wifi still does not work. I'm trying to determine where to edit this through the GUI - I've found the Localisation Options - and have changed it from GB to US - but it still doesn't seem to work.... any further guidance on this?

mitu

@gjlutz (From another topic). Run from a command line - sudo rfkill unblock all, then try again connecting to Wifi.

gjlutz

@mitu thank you!! Solved my issues!