New install won't boot.
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I used Gparted and formated the sd card to Fat32, and then used unetbootin to install the image according to instructions found here, this is what the card looks like afterwards, but when I power up it just sits there with a solid red light and does nothing... what is going wrong?
http://www.libregeek.org/2014/03/13/retropie-installation-guide-for-the-raspberry-pi/
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Please first try with the official installation instructions (the ones you are using are 3rd party, and >2 years old)
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation
Also see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first as agreed when registering and as mentioned at the top of the forum.
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Sorry, I forgot the other info, it's a RPi 3 B , I'm using linux mint, and the image is retropie-4.1-rpi2_rpi3.img.gz, the github link you gave me simply says "For Linux you can use dd command or Unetbootin" with no further details on how to do so which is why I used the third party instructions.
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@foxyfluff did you unpack the image ?
Something like http://elinux.org/RPi_Easy_SD_Card_Setup#Flashing_the_SD_Card_using_Linux_.28including_on_a_Raspberry_Pi.21.29 should work.
Either you haven't written it correctly, or your sd card is bad, or another hardware issue.
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yes I extracted it and got retropie-4.1-rpi2_rpi3.img, tried the link, Imagewriter isn't available on Mint 18 and all that Etcher succeeded in doing was to crash my laptop three times in a row, not really sure where to go from here, I have been a full time Linux user for 8 years and don't have access to anything running Windows and I'm starting to think that that is the problem....
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@foxyfluff I use Linux (dd). Maybe it's your sdcard but you can use dd from terminal. Search for a tutorial. Don't accidentally write over your hd :-)
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Tried the DD method and it was way too much command line for me, I can handle copy/pasting but when it gets to the point of having to actually understand it and customize/translate it to my specific system that's beyond my abilities. I'm doing all of this from an old scrap laptop, no chance of damaging anything :-)
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Or something like this ? https://etcher.io/
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Tried Etcher, just kept crashing the laptop, I found an old Win7 install disk and a scrap 40gb HD, going to give that a try before I return the RPi, I spent the extra money to get a sandisk SD card so I doubt it's defective, if it still won't work under Windows than I'm going to assume that the RPi is dead.
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@foxyfluff what PSU are you using? What are the output specs?
To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@BuZz for the record unetbootin never worked for me either on Linux. Perhaps I need to better document Linux options (though generally it's safe to assume those who go through the trouble to get Linux running on their PCs generally know their way around Linux). Easiest is to use the disk image writer on Ubuntu
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Using a 5v @1.5 A power supply, less then ideal but I'm not willing to dump even more money into this until I can verify that it's functional, should be more than enough just to boot. I stopped using Ubuntu when they forced Unity down everyones throat, but I have some blank DVDs left so I might try that route, won't take that long to burn a live CD and try it.
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@foxyfluff said in New install won't boot.:
less then ideal but I'm not willing to dump even more money into this until I can verify that it's functional, should be more than enough just to boot.
Anything less than a 2.5A power supply on a Pi3, it will not function. Well it might, just, but more often it will not and you will see a lightning bolt. You are on a wild goose chase and are wasting your time by not meeting the minimum requirements of your hardware choice. The only thing you will boot with that power supply is a Pi1 Model B. Do you have peripherals attached? If so, it's even worse news. A 5.1v, 2.5A is available for £7.50. Anything less, you are going to have issues even if you think you wont and also check your usb cable length, it matters. Long cables are bad news.
The 1.5A power supply is marginal (remember if its a phone charger - they aren't really designed as power supplies). The "power budget" for Pi3B was posted as: 1A for the SoC/RAM, 0.3A for WiFi/BT, and 1.2A for full powered to USB. If the increased USB power is NOT selected, then the expected max current would be 1.9A and a good 2A supply would cover it. 1.5A is not enough in my opinion.
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Got it working, Berryboot saves the day, I've been trying for two months to install Retropie with no luck and Berryboot worked first try, same SD card, same power supply, same OS, I guess there's just some huge incompatibility between Linux Mint and Retropie. Might be useful advice for other people having install problems, was really simple to install Retropie this way, could have saved myself two months of aggravation.
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@foxyfluff there is no incompatibility. The image must have been written incorrectly. Linux mint is basically Ubuntu, which is what I run.
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Don't know what else to say, I doubt that I wrote the image wrong every time out of the 20+ times that I tried, I've burned dozens of Linux install disks over the years and never had a problem with the image, pretty much the same thing, just a DVD instead of a SD card. There are enough differences between Mint and Ubuntu to cause problems, I've only ever got MAME to work on Ubuntu, never on Mint, ect. Ubuntu is far more stable and less buggy than Mint, I'd use it but I can't stand the UI.
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@foxyfluff then the image may have been incomplete. Did you verify it against the md5sum? It doesn't really make sense to say it is incompatible - it's just an image being written. Perhaps the app you used was buggy, but certainly you can write an image from Mint.
You don't have to use Unity on Ubuntu btw. I run xfce for example. There are many desktop environments.
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Yeah, I verified the image, you're right it could have just been a bug. I know that there are other desktop environments, tried a bunch of them and they never seemed "finished" like they were just thrown together as an an afterthought, although that was years ago so maybe it's improved since them, I'm considering Ubuntu MATE, looks like 10.04 Ubuntu did.
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@foxyfluff I use Ubuntu mate, haven't really had too many issues with it. At least not anything out of the norm for Linux . Worth a go anyways, I prefer it over the Linux mint I was using
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Hi All,
I'm having exactly the same problem as foxyfluff.
Installing from Ubuntu to a 32gb card with either DD or Unetbootin results in no green LED.
Will give Berryboot a go.
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