@Lolonois
Thanks for some more directions to go, as yours seem WD targeted i will begin with them in my troubleshooting process.

I was unaware that there was a particular issue with some pi4 models that forced me to use an official pi4 power supply. Perhaps I should attempt this first to resolve my issues or start here to eliminate the possibility.

I have just received my external usb enclosure and have shucked the drive. To my disappointment the drive has no data interface and in fact has an integrated USB interface.

I suppose to proceed with even considering putting this in an external sata enclosure I would have to match this hdd model # with another that has the actual sata interface pcb to use as a donor for this drive. I’m not even sure how well this would work but in theory it should. Does anyone have any other possible work arounds for this issue? I don’t even know when they started doing this, it used to be buy an external shuck it and put it in whatever device you chose.

Does anyone else have any input thoughts or ideas with this?

This has quickly gotten way over my head….maybe I will just buy a different hdd and move on I don’t know yet.

@roslof Do you have a folder with "lr-mame" 0.278 for rpi5 64bit that you can share? Thanks

@mitu I don't remember I haven't booted Linux on arcade in a while. Sorry.

@mitu thank you problem solved:
Deleted 1st partition (unused 16mb)
And now /dev/sda1 is correctly mounted ...on my hdd2...465gb
Retropie boots quickly and without warnings.
Thanks

Right, as @mitu stated, you can roll your own image. I have been down that road a few months ago:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/36915/howto-create-a-bookworm-retropie-image-hands-free

@danturn I made the switch to lr-puae2021 recently on pi4/pi5 on Bookworm.
Had to adjust a few core options initially, but plays well.

Hi again! I’d like to add a few clarifications and refinements to better explain the suggestion:

🔧 Technical Insight
Currently, it seems the carousel positioning is affected by the width and spacing of adjacent logos. This makes the selected (center) logo appear off-center or "pushed" when neighboring logos are wider or spaced unevenly.

A possible solution could be adding support for something like:

<carouselCenterLock>true</carouselCenterLock>

...inside theme.xml, allowing the selected system logo to remain visually anchored in a fixed position while the surrounding logos move independently.

🎯 Cross-compatibility Benefit
This would also make theme development easier for those porting designs from Batocera or ES-DE, where the selected item in the carousel is always visually fixed. It improves consistency and opens the door for more dynamic and polished carousel layouts.

📐 Logo Scaling Behavior Issue
Additionally, when a theme increases the size of the selected logo to highlight it, EmulationStation currently scales the logo from its center, which makes it look like it “floats” or moves upward. It would be better to allow the logo to scale from the bottom center, so it stays grounded and aligned with other UI elements (like background frames, labels, or shadows).

🧪 Willing to Help
I'm happy to test or help explore these improvements if anyone on the development team is interested.

Thanks again for considering this!

@BurndtJamb said in help installing screen driver on pi zero 2 w with retropie:

. I can't get ssh working since i don't know the ip address due to not having a screen. is there either a way I can install the necessary stuff without ssh?

If you don't have a direct interface (i.e. monitor + keyboard) to the RPI, then you need SSH. If you don't know the IP, you can try connecting using the hostname instead - for the RetroPie image the hostname is retropie (you can also try with retropie.local)