New install won't boot.

[herb_fargus]

@Swizz I'd recommend not using berryboot. If my recommended steps above with the built in SD image writer doesn't work There is a new thing called etcher that is compatible with Linux for writing SD images. It's pretty simple.

[gotodeng0]

Not sure if this helps, but I will say I registered to post about almost the exact same issue and ran across this post. DD and unetbootin failed to create a bootable image for me. Tried the advice of using Etcher and it finally succceeded in creating the image. Not sure why it's crashing your system. I'm using linux mint as well (17.3 xfce).

[Swizz]

Ok thanks!

Last night I managed to get Retropie working on our old Pi2 with Berryboot but not version 4.1

Will give Etcher a try.

I do like the idea of Berryboot though as it could enable me to put one Pi to several uses. Our Pi 3 is currently used with Raspian for basic web use & Tuxmath for the youngest to practice times tables! Having the option to boot into that, a media centre & a games machine is attractive.

May I ask why you wouldn't recommend Berryboot apart from the version issue I've encountered?

[BuZz]

@Swizz You can do all that via RetroPie without having to reboot - RetroPie is just a software package on top of Raspbian (or another distro).

Berryboot shares a kernel between all distros, and /boot/config.txt management is slightly different so configuration is different (The different kernel version from Raspbian can cause issues specific to Berryboot). Although we provide a Berryboot image we don't really support it.