Troubling Boot Problems

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So, I've played with RetroPie for awhile no with no issues, until one day I stuck my micro-SD containing RetroPie card into my PI4 and it took me to the colored screen that you should usually find when booting up Raspbian buster for some weird reason, and then it goes to a black screen and then nothing else happens.

Any ideas on what's going on and how I can fix it without needing to re-flash or getting a new card?

I think that this also has something to do with the pixel desktop because when I press F4 to go to the terminal and enter startx, pixel works fine, but when I type emulation station it won't boot. If this is a problem, how would I delete pixel?

mitu

Which HDMI port are you using on the Pi4 ? How did you install RetroPie - was is from a Pi4 image or on-top of Raspberry Pi OS ?

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@mitu So I don't think it's a problem with HDMI, but I'm using port 0. I flashed RetroPie right onto a card using etcher, and a couple weeks after doing that I downloaded pixel onto RetroPie. My raspberry pi was previously used by a college who gave my pi to me for free after completing a micro computing class. They already had a card with raspberry OS flashed onto it, but I used a virgin, brand new card I bought myself to flash RetroPie. It is a SanDisk 32Gb extreme plus.

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I have footage of the issue as well but I can not post the video

mitu

@exitkioskmode Upload the video somewhere and then post a link to it.

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@mitu

mitu

@exitkioskmode Looking at the video you posted, seems like you're not using the 1st HDMI port - the one next to the USB-C power port. I also don't see the bootloader diagnostic screen, specific to the Pi4.
Just to make sure, you're using the latest RetroPie version (4.8.2), written from scratch ? Note that the 1st boot will not start EmulationStation, since it will resize the Linux partition on the sdcard and then reboot.