Raspberry pi messed up?

ddoherty958

I have a raspberry pi B+ that my brother and me are putting inside a retro gaming arcade but when it boots up there is only one raspberry. Obviously this affects which version of retropie I get. And usually after the first boot up I get an error message and I need to rewrite the image.

Help!

Frank01001

I advise you to follow this First Installation Guide: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/First-Installation.

As you can see, if only one Raspberry appears, yours is the first version of the Raspberry Pi board. The image file you loaded in your sd card is probably the version 2/3 one, you have to choose version 0/1 when you go in the retropie download section.

ddoherty958

@frank01001

That’s just it. I AM using the 0/1 version! I don’t understand it!

Frank01001

Maybe something went wrong during download or sd flashing. Or maybe the SD card is damaged. Try doing it all from the start. Download the image again, and flash it again to the SD using the app Retropie recommends, Win32DiskImager (for windows), Apple Pi Baker on Mac, or Etcher on linux. If that doesn't work, try a different SD card. If that doesn't solve it, I have no idea either, maybe post a picture of the error code.

ddoherty958

@frank01001

I have a windows computer but u was using etcher. That might be it. 6th times the charm!

KN4THX

@ddoherty958 Are you extracting the image before writing to the card?

ddoherty958

@thedatacereal

Yes, I use WinRAR

KN4THX

@ddoherty958 Can you post the error and the requested info from https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to better understand the situation?

herb_fargus

@thedatacereal said in Raspberry pi messed up?:

Are you extracting the image before writing to the card?

This shouldn't be necessary with etcher

ultrakev9

Incompatible SD card, perhaps? I thought I had that problem at one point. They don't all work perfectly right out of the box.

KN4THX

@herb_fargus Wow. I had never used etcher. Thats good to know! I'm a manually-do-every-step-because-im-old-and-dont-want-to-forget guy. I need to get with the times.

Clyde

@thedatacereal It's not wrong to do things step-by-step, as it can help to locate the error if things go wrong. That said, one can also benefit from tools that do multiple steps for convenience. :)

ddoherty958

This is the error code. I have seen it on different topics relating to under-power rewriting the SD card but I’m using the official raspberry pi power cable.

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown block(179, 2)

I’ll try using Win32DiskImager and etcher with an unzipped file.

ddoherty958

Right, so I downloaded the retopie image from retropie.com/download. Fine. However when I try to extract it (using winRAR) I am told that the file is corrupt. Is this an issue with the image or is it my extractor or...?

KN4THX

@ddoherty958 Try using 7zip or just use Etcher on the compressed file ( I just learned you could do that 😁😁)

Darksavior

@ddoherty958 It says the file is corrupt because it is. Re-download the image and try again.

Darksavior

@thedatacereal said in Raspberry pi messed up?:

@ddoherty958 Try using 7zip or just use Etcher on the compressed file ( I just learned you could do that 😁😁)

No, don't do that. That will just write an incomplete image file which might be the cause of the problems.

Clyde

@ddoherty958 Compare the md5sum checksum on the download page to the checksum of the file. (Just search the web how to do that, there should be plenty of sites explaning it.) Continue only if both checksums are the same.

ddoherty958

@clyde

It was successfuly verified. However when u tried to extract it it still said it was corrupt

ddoherty958

The error code is: unexpected end of data.