@mitu Thank you! It's working again

@mitu This worked! I was surprised, because after formatting the flash drive it looked like the drive had a single partition taking up the whole volume. I wasn't able to create partitions on Windows 10, so I used the Disk Utility on macOS to create two exFAT partitions (screenshots of the volume in Disk Management before and after below). After that I was able to follow the instructions to create the proper directories and transfer the ROMs!

Thanks!

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@sirhenrythe5th
File patch:
/retropie/roms/psp/Battlefront Renegade Squadron.iso

@mitu I might have by accident because at on point I was having a hard time finding where to pair with bluetooth for a controller

Looking at the last screenshot, your ROM folder are named differently than what EmulationStation is configured to look after (snes, saturn, megadrive, etc), so they're probably ignored.

From your mounting schema, I see you're using a FAT32 drive and you're trying to mount the whole /opt/retropie (!) on it, under the pi user. This is not correct and it's going to cause issues - you shouldn't do that. And probably /etc/emulationstation should be left also alone - if you want to edit it, just create your own customized es_systems.cfg in $HOME/.emulationstation/ and use it.

I realized I can use my USB2-A meter to test the output from the USB2 ports. Problematic PSU causes it to have 5.3V and the better one has 5.1V. Hopefully it helps anyone else having problems with a stronger PSU.

@mitu
Yes, the service is started. Now automounting works fine. However, I updated the main RetroPie script and reinstalled usbromservice.

@BuZz said in USB: Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" or missing value:

/etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf

Thank youBuZz for your prompt reply: it solved the problem!
Regards,
Lionel

@windg usbmount is included in the image, but not in the manual installation. if you install via a manual installation, as it appears you have done, you will have to manually install it after the fact via the packages menu.

If you can read them via the terminal, then it's ok.
What happens if you restart Emulationstation, after booting ? Will the games show up ?

ExFat I can confirm it works.

Interesting. I do want to play roms off the 1Tb drive.

@Halvhjearne said in retropie on ubuntu 18.10 is adding unnecessary/broken apt sources:

there is a package available upstream for both cosmic and bionic, would it be possible to maybe fix the script to not add the broken repo for cosmic?

The repo is mainained by the FS-UAE author and it's the recommended way to install it (https://fs-uae.net/download#ubuntu). If anything changes regarding that, we can also update the script. While for 18.x the latest package is upstreamed (Ubuntu), for older releases the PPA has the latest version. Let's see what happens when 19.04 breaks loose.

@A-pi said in ROMs from exfat USB drive, drive not automatically mounting on startup:

Incidentally, blkid still shows the drive (/dev/sda2)...?

blkid shows you the block devices detected by the system, but that doesn't mean they're mounted and available. The mount command should give you the list of mounted (and available) drives. I guess your drive is not automatically mounted at start or there's an error mounting the drive - check you by manually mounting it and see if any errors show up.

@herb_fargus so maybe that's why it's not working. Will try your build and see if that works. Thanks

@fluffymastodons Copy the retropie folder from the - original sd card - ROMs folder onto the flash drive.

Indeed I can load the ROMS without the USB connected.
I want them to stay om my USB or Network so I will try the second link also.
Thx for the information.