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Hi Everyone,
I'm new to arcade punks and Raspberry Pi. I've just bought a PI3 B that I would like to use for retro gaming.
I've downloaded the Nacho 64gb image off the arcadepunks website (71 files), extracted it with winrar and flashed it onto a 64gb micro SD card FAT formatted. When i put the card into the PI and boot, it will not boot up it just has a Kernel Panic and says no working init found. I've repeated the formatting and flashing process a few times with the same results.
I thought maybe it was a faulty SD card so re-formatted again and just flashed the standard retropie image which boots on the PI absolutely fine so im guessing its not a card or Pi issue..
Anyone else had a similar issue or know whats going wrong?
Thank you!
when you extracted it,
did you notice any errors from winrar dialog box? (header errors? etc )
did it extract into one file/image?
Quote from canter6 on September 18, 2017, 1:28 pmwhen you extracted it,
did you notice any errors from winrar dialog box? (header errors? etc )
did it extract into one file/image?
Hey,
Thank you for replying!
I noticed no errors and also scanned the files for corruption which took a very long time and they came back clear. I was expecting one or 2 to have come back corrupted so I would have needed to re-download the corrupted files but nope..
and yes it extracted into one image file.
I've since decided to download the latest motion blue image and plan to just add the rom packs to it. I'm new to all this so i'm just learning from here and youtube but I see motion blue is pretty highly regarded within the community.
Ok..
So I just downloaded the Motion Blue V5 image and have the exact same problem. I'm using a 64gb micro sd card and successfully formatting to FAT32 then successfully flashing the image via Win32.
When i did the same process with just the latest retropie image from their site everything worked fine.
I have no idea where this is going wrong..
HELP!
mmmm.. after you format your card, how much room does your card show on it?
a cpl things could be happening here,
one, 64 gig cards or any sd card for that matter has less space than is advertised, and the image may not have completely written to the card, due to the card running out of room before it finished,
using the motion blue image and copying roms onto it isnt a bad idea either ( its what i did )
what i DONT understand is why the MB image isnt working as its a rather small file in comparison, since it has no roms,
UNLESS when you formatted, it you somehow had a partition, further limitng the space on the card,
to check this format the card, then right click it and select properties, Â (windows machine) and see how much space is avail, not total.
ill need to get back to my laptop at the house to help you free up the disk space if this is the case, as i need to walk myself through it to remember.
Quote from canter6 on September 18, 2017, 9:02 pmmmmm.. after you format your card, how much room does your card show on it?
a cpl things could be happening here,
one, 64 gig cards or any sd card for that matter has less space than is advertised, and the image may not have completely written to the card, due to the card running out of room before it finished,
using the motion blue image and copying roms onto it isnt a bad idea either ( its what i did )
what i DONT understand is why the MB image isnt working as its a rather small file in comparison, since it has no roms,
UNLESS when you formatted, it you somehow had a partition, further limitng the space on the card,
to check this format the card, then right click it and select properties, Â (windows machine) and see how much space is avail, not total.
ill need to get back to my laptop at the house to help you free up the disk space if this is the case, as i need to walk myself through it to remember.
Hi,
It says I have 62.4gb free of 62.4 gb (see image attached).
I formatted with SD Formatter 5.0 which I believe automatically formats SD cards over 32gb to EXFAT which I read is not suitable for PI' as it only reads FAT32 so I also use EaseUS Partition Master 12.5 which then formats it to FAT32. This all seems to work successfully.
I then use Win32 to write the MB image which says write successful. After the write the card shows as 2 partitions on my laptop “F” which has a small amount of files in that I can view and “G” which I cannot open. A pop up says that I need to format G in order to use it. I'm not sure if this is normal.. I did read somewhere that windows cannot see linux stuff so i'm not sure if that is what that is.
Thank you for the help, its driving me mad!
Try another image, this sounds very much like a fake card, probably a 8gb with hacked firmware reporting 64gb , they are out there (and a nightmare!)
May I suggest the following one just for testing :-
Quote from Ninja UK on September 19, 2017, 12:46 pmTry another image, this sounds very much like a fake card, probably a 8gb with hacked firmware reporting 64gb , they are out there (and a nightmare!)
May I suggest the following one just for testing :-
I think i'm at the same conclusion. This is the card I've tried:Â psc=1 also tried another similar looking one.
When i installed just the latest Retropie base image it worked fine, first time but that is a much smaller image.
I'll buy a better quality card and see how it works.
Thank you!
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