Booting, But Not To Controller Setup

Just Dylan

So I have had a raspberry pi model b+ for a while now. I only recently have attempted to use retropie on it. I have a kingston 16 gb micro sd card with adapter and am using a mac to download everything. The sd card imager I have used is called the RPI builder, and have downloaded retropie version 3.81 on it. When I put the sd card in, it configures everything, but suddenly calls for an illegal instruction and brings me to a simple screen with an ASCII image of a rabbit and some performance monitoring.

I have been looking, and know that it is supposed to automatically boot into the controller setup, not this. I have tried basic commands, but fear to make to big of a risk without corrupting anything.

Here's one more clue: Whenever I finish imaging the file to the sd card, it says there has been an error with the disk ejecting. Despite this, the disk keeps trying to boot when I put it in the raspberry pi.

I would greatly appreciate any help, and will take 6-7 hours to respond (I can also send images to show what is occurring).

BuZz

@Just-Dylan Have you installed the wrong image? Sounds like rpi2 version on a rpi1

Just Dylan

@BuZz Sorry, I forgot to mention it was a raspberry pi model 2 b+.

BuZz

please can you post an image of the error? (and do you get any other errors displayed when booting?)

Just Dylan

@BuZz I can't seem to take a picture right now, as it may be an error, but I can type a document similar to what appears on the screen right now:
This is what appears:

Illegal Instruction

(Picture Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 10:50:18 pm UTC
Written In Linux 4.4.11+ armu61 GNU/Linux
ASCII
Here) Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted On
/dev/root 15G 2.3G 12G 17% /
Uptime...........................:0 days, 00h00m47s
Memory..........................: 132056kB (Free) /25042kB (Total)
Running Processes........: 94

...And various other diagnostics
The command line is also available an is:

pi@retropie:~ $

I hope this helps.

Just Dylan

@Just-Dylan The text I just wrote glitched too, I apologize, but you may still recongnize it.

herb_fargus

@Just-Dylan no such thing as a model 2 B+:

from the documentation:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#sd-images

SD Images

There are currently two versions of RetroPie. There is one version for Raspberry Pi 0/1 (Model A, >A+, B, B+) and there is a version for Raspberry Pi 2/3.

Download the SD image for your version of Raspberry Pi from the following page:

https://retropie.org.uk/download/

If you are unsure which version of Raspberry Pi you have there is an easy way to check:

Rpi 0/1= 1 raspberry when the pi boots up

Rpi 2/3= 4 raspberries when the pi boots up

If you get the error Illegal Instruction when it boots, you picked the wrong SD image.

BuZz

@herb_fargus good point. I suspect they have a rpi1 also.

Just Dylan

@BuZz Oh my god I very much apologizing for wasting your time. I kept getting confused with the 1 and 2. I now understand that I had the wrong model all along and will keep that in mind. I am not all that knowledgeable in it because I use it infrequently. I do thank you for the support and will remember to use this forum if I need information in the future.