Emulation Station not starting up on start up
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I just updated today. But have had this problem pruor
When starting up my pi, I'll get the retro pie configuration menu, but none of the emulator menus on startup. If I go to shutdown and restart emulation Station, when it loads back up everything works fine.
This leads me to believe that emulation Station is either not starting up correctly or not starting up at all. How would I fix this? -
Hi @SnipedintheHead can you give us some more information, such as that in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first also do you mean it is loading EmulationStation and only has the RetroPie menu? If so, do you keep your ROMS on a USB drive, or the SD card?
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Yeah, sorry. Forgot to give the vitals
I am running a B+, and I know I'm not supposed to say "Latest version". But I honestly can't figure out what version I'm on, but I literally just updated today.
I am running it with the power supply that came with the pi (it was a Cana kit I believe).
I'm not getting an error message at all. I think it's as you said -- It's loading Emulationstation, but just the RetroPie menu is coming up. I have the graphic overlay, where all of the emulators would normally be available, but instead it's just the Retropie option.
I have my games loaded on an external harddrive. They have read correctly in the past, and as I said, will read correctly when EmulationStation is restarted.
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@SnipedintheHead Hi, I'm having the same issue. I get the Retropie configuration menu, but no menus. I tried restarting Emulation Station with no success. I did not have time to play with it today, but I will let you know if I figure it out.
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@nhoaugustinho said in Emulation Station not starting up on start up:
@SnipedintheHead Hi, I'm having the same issue. I get the Retropie configuration menu, but no menus. I tried restarting Emulation Station with no success. I did not have time to play with it today, but I will let you know if I figure it out.
Awesome, let me know.
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@SnipedintheHead ok you say you have an external hard drive? So if you restart emulationstation it works? If that is the case you need to get a powered usb hub to hook your hdd up to. The hard drive doesnt boot fast enough because it is underpowered from the pi.
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@edmaul69
Okay I'll look into that. My issue with that is that I've had this setup for well over a year and never had this problem before. Do you know it would suddenly start acting up now? I haven't added anything to my system and have only updated retropie itself. -
@SnipedintheHead not sure. I had this same thing happen. Did you add more roms or anything to the hdd?
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@edmaul69
I have not. Tonight I'm going to try to transfer the rooms to my micro SD card and see if that will fix it. -
That looks to have been the problem. I uploaded the games to my micro SD card and it's working fine.
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Maybe it is a sign the drive is starting to fail (taking a long time to spin up). I know a number of Toshiba and Hitachi laptop drives have an issue where the grease in the bearings breaks down after a while and turns into a paste that actually slows the drive down until the motor has warmed up a little.
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