Emulationstation - Will not launch

almulder

This happened after I tried to to use the "Expand to External Drive" the script ran and everything was fine, but upon reboot the issue happened. If I unplug the USB then it boots fine, but with the usb I keep getting the error?

mitu

@almulder How do you run this script ? I don't remember being part of the RetroPie setup.

almulder

Its not. I have used it before, but for some reason this time it broke my setup. Guess I go back and start my mods all over again, but I will activate the expansion first. That should hopefully solve my issues.

mitu

@almulder What expansion script are we talking about ?

almulder

EazyHax Toolkit Expand to External NTFS Drive

almulder

Is there another easy method to run roms from USB (NTFS)

mitu

@almulder did you try the method of running roms from an USB drive described in the docs ?

almulder

but that for fat32, other have it running NTFS. I have movies I want to be able to put on it while travaling 4+gb

mitu

@almulder it works with Ntfs also. Which doc have you followed ?

almulder

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Running-ROMs-from-a-USB-drive/ - but it says fat32, do I just follow this same thing and it will read NTFS?

almulder

Ok I followed it and had it as NTFS, looks liek everyhting copied like it should. now I put 1 rom on there in the nes folder out the usb back into the raspberry (same usb) powered it up and I get this error: emulationstation: /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/rescources/Font.cpp:17: Font::FontFace::FontFace(resourceData&&, int): Assertion '!err' failed. Aborted
If i take the usb out and restart it books up with no issue, just with no usb now.

mitu

@almulder How did you configure your /etc/fstab ? Can you paste the contents here, surrounded by code quotes ?

almulder


proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
PARTUUID=f2d3cb4f-01  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
PARTUUID=f2d3cb4f-02  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
#   use  dphys-swapfile swap[on|off]  for that
UUID=3ABCB4F6BCB4ADAF /home/pi/RetroPie ntfs nofail,defaults 0    0

mitu

@almulder Looks ok - do you have the necessary folders created under /home/pi/RetroPie ? BIOS, roms, retropiemenu, splashscreens ?

almulder

yes they are there and copied to my usb

mitu

@almulder Then I guess the mount options need could be different. I think it would be easier for you to use 2 partitions - one Fat32 for RetroPie roms and a 2nd one (NTFS) for large files.

almulder

OK not sure how to do that, can you point me in the right direction? Im off to bed and will try tomorrow.

mitu

@almulder Just format the external USB disk with a FAT32 partition - but don't use the whole disk. Follow the instructions in the docs to use it for ROMs and make sure it works. Then create a 2nd partition on said disk with NTFS.

almulder

ok I went and tried that. same issue. however i decided to start everything over and see if I am missing something. I have had the EasyHack Toolkit script work before so I knew there has to be more to this. well long story short. Looks like this was all due to a bad gamelist.xml file. Sorry to waste your time. (atleast i figured it out). :)