Retropie does not turn on after disconnecting the power

haller

Hello!

I have problem with my retropie. After the power was disconnected unexpectedly, the system won't turn on. I don't have access to command line, but I need to copy my save files from sd card.
There is option to connect it by ethernet cable with my notebook (windows) and save it on it?

Thx for any help.

markyh444

@haller sounds like the SD card is corrupt. If you've got access to a Linux machine you might be able to plug the SD into that to get the files off.

haller

I have only notebook with windows. I tried with Diskinternal Linux reader. there is two partition on it: boot and Linux native, but when I trie to access Linux native error appears: "Can't open disk: Volume 1 Check the disk and try again"

mitu

@haller Get an Ubuntu linux live cd/usb so you don't have to install linux and use it to read the sd card.

haller

I'm downloading ubuntu now.

Also I saw, that one of integrated circuit (L2) is broken. Can it be exchanged?

https://www.fotosik.pl/zdjecie/455602f1cb880f8c

haller

After boot into ubunto, I can see only boot partition :/

mitu

@haller After you started the Ubuntu live cd, open a command line and execute the command

cat /proc/partitions

then paste the output here.

haller

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

7 0 1496208 loop0
8 0 488386584 sda
8 1 409600 sda1
8 2 307200 sda2
8 3 131072 sda3
8 4 211878912 sda4
8 5 459776 sda5
8 6 255526596 sda6
8 7 19672064 sda7
11 0 1048575 sr0
8 16 15974400 sdb
8 17 15973376 sdb1
179 0 7761920 mmcblk0
179 1 58368 mmcblk0p1
179 2 7699456 mmcblk0p2

cyperghost

@haller You can try Linux Reader for Windows to extract files directly from SD.

or as already mentioned here is a live system (Ubuntu, Kubuntu... or my favourite Puppy Linux).

btw: mmcblk0p2 is the partition you need

Sano

@haller said in Retropie does not turn on after disconnecting the power:

mmcblk0p2

This should be the data partition of your SD card.

haller

This command helped:

fsck -fy /dev/mmcblk0p2

reboot

After that, my partition shows up. Even in linux reader.

Thx.

Clyde

@haller Thanks for sharing your solution for others.