trying to boot from a copy of my sd card, will not boot.

jtkblue

@mitu sorry about that, after realizing what i did wrong i already found the retropie partition. check the edited message above for what's wrong now lol

mitu

@jtkblue If you can't find rc.local, then it's not there or the partition is not properly mounted/read.

jtkblue

@mitu nope, found it. I tried to edit it using the mousepad thingy and it won't let me save because permission denied. I would use sudo nano but I have no clue how to edit files on external drives..

any clue?

mitu

Editing files is the same, no matter the location. Use sudo nano _path_to_file_. You can also run mousepad via sudo and browse for the file location.

jtkblue

@mitu in the file browser, it says /media/pi/retropie/etc

so i type

sudo nano /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

and it says it doesn't exist. confused.

says it doesn't exist either for /pi/retropie/etc/rc.local/

mitu

@jtkblue said in trying to boot from a copy of my sd card, will not boot.:

/media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

If you run the following 2 commands, what's the output ?

ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local
sudo ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

jtkblue

@mitu said in trying to boot from a copy of my sd card, will not boot.:

@jtkblue said in trying to boot from a copy of my sd card, will not boot.:

/media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

If you run the following 2 commands, what's the output ?
ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local
sudo ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

the first one output

-rwxr -xr-x 1 root root 454 Jan 3 23:31 /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

the second one output the exact same thing

mitu

@jtkblue said in trying to boot from a copy of my sd card, will not boot.:

sudo ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

OK, so if

sudo ls -l /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

shows the listing to a file, then I don't understand why

sudo nano /media/pi/retropie/etc/rc.local

says the file does not exist. Are you sure there's not a typo involved somewhere ?

jtkblue

@mitu BINGO!

apparently, I tried it again after typing it correctly the last 5-6 times in the past 2 hours.

Sorry for wasting your time. I appreciate your help, thank you so much!

boots into emulationstation completely fine now.

the thing is though, i've been trying to make my touchscreen work on the retropie pixel desktop thingy, it's always a tiny bit off from my finger so i can't use it. The website here: https://www.circuitbasics.com/setup-lcd-touchscreen-raspberry-pi/
told me to edit rc.local and put that thing in it, and then it wouldn't load emulationstation.

it's all a huge mess. I'm going to store the recently fixed sd card with retropie on it and i'm going to try to install emulationstation ON top of raspbian on a second sd card i have, if it works, cool i got a touch screen, if not, i got this nifty tiny keyboard i can use.

mitu

Those instructions seem a bit old, you might want to search for recent (Raspbian Buster) instructions. Note that running EmulationStation from a desktop env is not a supported configuration (though some users seem to prefer running it like that).

jtkblue

@mitu oh ho, I know it's not supported. I tried it as my main configuration for a while and eventually it just would not start any games at all. I'm hoping that because it's on a secondary sd card it'll fix the issues i previously had.

If i had a choice, I would totally prefer to have it on top of raspbian but, whatever.