Lubuntu 19.04

[bpreston26]

i have retropie x86 installed on my atomic pi running Ubuntu 19.04 and i have a SD card with a image etched into it but i cant get retropie to see the roms on the SD card it just reads from the internal storage of the Pi

[Parabolaralus]

@bpreston26 doesn't that have an Intel atom or similar processor in it? How fast does it run? How about n64 emu?

On topic: how familiar are you with Linux? You said Ubuntu and Lubuntu so im assuming you have a desktop environment with this response which makes it easier.

First youll want to make sure the device is mounted at boot and might want to make it's mount point something easy to type for multiple reasons. /media/roms would work for example.

In gnome disks (which lubuntu and ubuntu 19.04 have pre installed) or gparted this can be done by right clicking on the partition and hitting edit mount point. Mount on startup and your preferred mount directory need to be set.

Once that's set and confirmed working you'll want to create a symbolic link to your SD Card who's directory you just assigned or for future posters USB drive as well though this should be handled automatically if usbromservice is installed using a USB connected drive.

Right click in Lubuntu anywhere within pcmanfm (the file manager) and select create new link to directory I think is the terminology used and point it to your SD card. Name it for example N64 the cut it and paste it in your retropie ROMs folder. Delete the original N64 folder beforehand or the paste will fail.

That link or shortcut will now be used instead of the onboard storage location which is what you're doing here.
Ubuntu 19.04 you have to enable symbolic links in nautilus preferences first but the instructions are the same afterwords.

If doing it from the command line you'll need to edit /etc/fstab with your mount point as well as boot options but I don't remember everything needed offhand.

[bpreston26]

thank you for all of the info i will try that out