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I have a piDrive on a rPI3:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2073955313/pidrive-low-power-msata-ssd-for-the-raspberry-pi
and have followed the steps at:
http://www.mictronics.de/2016/03/install-and-run-an-existing-image-from-pidrive/3/
To try and make the retropie image boot directly from the hard drive, but the resizing script just ran forever (4hours until I killed it)
After rebooting I see the retropie boot screen, but after that I’m thrown to a prompt.
df shows the following:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 2371536 2284240 0 100% /
devtmpfs 372268 0 372268 0% /dev
tmpfs 376588 0 376588 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 376588 5296 371292 2% /run
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 376588 0 376588 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1 129776 21046 108730 17% /boot
/dev/sda1 58234 19952 38282 35% /media/usb1
I’m hoping someone may be able to help me figure out how to get this working?
but I’d probably stay away of doing that way, as if you develop a fault in you file system, you’ll need to probably start all over again.
I’d suggest just running your roms from your pi drive!
Thanks @InsecureSpike.
I ended up using one of the Multo Boot Pi images:
http://www.multibootpi.com/builds/retropie3-6_openelec6-0-3/#more-1
So your suggestion to just run the roms from the drive seems a much simpler way to do it.. What would be the recommended way to direct the emulators to look there for them?
edit the es_systems.cfg
sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
edit these bits… <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga</path>
i would also move it to
/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation
so as updates won’t write over it
Thanks, worked a treat!
awesome mate!