Rasp Pi 4 8GB will not boot from Retropie SD card

[mitu]

@honda-z50m said in Rasp Pi 4 8GB will not boot from Retropie SD card:

@mitu Over ethernet?

If you don't have WiFi, yes.

How do I find Pi's IP address?

It's right in the RetroPie's menus, though you can just use the name (retropie or retropie.local) instead.

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu ok won't be able to access wifi with PI as I can't type password in etc.

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu ok I'm in

How do I update?

[mitu]

@honda-z50m said in Rasp Pi 4 8GB will not boot from Retropie SD card:

How do I update?

With the same commands as before - using apt.

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu ok I'm using winscp and all I have at the moment is the root directory how do I open the pi terminal?

[mitu]

@honda-z50m Doesn't Commands > Open Terminal get your a command prompt ?

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu Done that typed both Sudo apt-get and sudo apt update but just get a timeout after 15secs

[Honda Z50M]

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[Honda Z50M]

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[mitu]

Looks like WinSCP doesn't like how long it takes for the command to complete. Use Putty instead to login and run the upgrade commands and - after the upgrade is finished - reboot by entering sudo reboot.

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu ok with putty get the normal pi terminal, do I need to do anything to allow the pi internet connection through laptop?

Looks like it has no internet access lots of failures

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu got connected to wifi via config seems to be updating watch this space

[Honda Z50M]

@mitu Finally got it working ok with your help (THANK YOU), full upgrade using Putty worked although my laptop crashed and corrupted the SD card at around 80% of update and had to reflash it and start all over again.

But copying the two files across, then updating via putty worked in short.

Thanks,
Tom