Hi!
I'm trying to install Batocera on a USB device but am running into a major problem. The system simply refuses to boot.
I used etcher to burn the image for 64 bit computers on a USB hard drive, I reboot with the boot from USB option preferred in the BIOS and all I get is a blinking cursor. I tried putting it on a USB stick (32gb). Same problem. I tried burning the 32 bit version the same way. Same problem.
To check if the issue was with the computer, I used a stick with Puppy Linux installed on it and it boots no problem...
So what could be the problem?
The computer is an HP with an Intel Core2 Duo. I have plenty of ram and currently run Windows 10...
It could be an uefi problem, but must not. You can always try alternate bootloader , unpack and override files in efi/boot, operation also possible under windows for this files. Some uefi x86 just dont want to boot with the provided files. The symptom is a not flashing cursor on a black screen. I promise nothing, but perhaps as it helped me.
OK. I've been struggling with this for 2 days.
I've tried everything! I've even managed to mess-up my computer with GRUB (Lucky me for backups).
But today I tried something different. Converting the IMG file to an ISO so I can use the Universal USB Installer to move the files to a drive. But to my surprise no converter worked. So I tried looking at the file with IMGBurn to manually extract the boot loader. The program tells me that the IMG file is corrupt...
I tried with batocera-5.20-x86_64-20190118.img and batocera-5.20-x86-20190117.img but got the same problems.
So I'm concluding that there is probably a problem with the distribution files, something that the people who do a network install or an upgrade don't see...
I think I might have found the problem!
Etcher doesn't set the partition as active or boot, so the computer probably won't do anything with it.
I found the solution on a French Recallbox forum...
I've just tried it. I'll reboot and keep anyone posted.
well... that was a very short trip...
I did try something that puzzles me though. I tried the drive on an old netbook I have and the boot sequence worked. So that means that the image is good after all.
But why won't it boot on my PC?
Yeah, I tried replacing the efi files but it didn't do anything...
I really don't know what to make of that since it's the first time I encounter an issue like that with Linux.
I've got Lubuntu running on my netbook, I had a FreeSCO server for a long time. I've booted Kali from a stick with this machine. But this is something I've never seen before.
Francois
I begin to think that your problem is not coming from the bootloader, but from your graphic chip.
This should be a gma 4500 ? It seems that some people was already having problems in Debian with this drivers.
So you could as a test try to install Debian on a stick and look if it works. I didnt yet looked into the package, may be that a driver swap in Batocera can make your netbook work. It should be i965_dri.so. Could it be that i965_drv_video.so is missing for this chip ?
I've got an integrated Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset on this computer. But that could be the problem.
Though I'd expect the first few seconds of the boot to just use a generic text only mode.
I'll have to check this out.
In the meantime last night before going to bed I dug out of a closet my previous computer. This one is a 2GHz Athlon 64 with an old Nvidia video card. Maybe I could use this instead and just use it as a dedicated gaming machine...
Possibly would be simpler in the end.
Francois
What versions of Batocera you tried out? Some people seem to have problems with 5.20 concerning graphics, so may be 5.19 is worth a try.
The problem for all this gaming software, with Raspberry, Odroid and so on, you had a unique hardware base, but the diversity of PC's is just enormous and for this reason creates easier problems. And here you have Linux drivers for PC that change with every kernel version.
Hi all,
i got the same issue than you.
I have an HP 6000 Pro as main Linux PC.
I tried to install Batocera on a HP dc7900. I've burned the img with etcher on USB Stick but not enable to boot on it.
I tested the USB stick on Laptop Lenovo, and old EEpc with success.
I tried to with Lakka & Recalbox and i got the same issue.
I updated the Bios to version 1.27 Rev. A. and the ME Firmware to 2.2.20.1039 Rev. B.
Still the issue, and i got a flashback from my windows years when i was trying to boot an a specifique disque, on windows we need to mark the Partition Bootable.
So in Xubuntu, with gnome-disk-utility i set the partition bootable.
And i tried with the USB Rear panel, seems for me that the USB Front Panel do not work very well.
hi everyone,
i have the same issue ,i buy a dell optiplex 380 intel celeron q9550 quad,4gb ram ,250 gb hdd, i tried to make usb stick with batocera and dont boot,the stick 16gb kingston fa 32 batocera 64 bit dont boot
16gb kingston ntfs batocera 64 bit dont boot
16gb kingston fat32 batocera 32 bit dont boot
64gb kingston fat32 batocera 64 bit dont boot
64gb kingston ntfs batocera 64 bit dont boot
i download batocera with winrar unpack and with balena etcher flash to usb,on the boot menu i tried
usb first boot
usb first boot and all others disabled
i dont find secur boot options only when its start in the left up corner apear "batocera.linux" and then black screen
ps. sorry for my poor english
that is a isue from your pc and not from batocera or pendrives. you need config security boot to disable and fastboot to disable on bios . if you have a GSM option on your bios activate it or deactivate it that depends if is activ or inactiv-.
I had a bootable windows 7 pen drive (sandisk 4 GB). Later, I got to use the pen drive for some other purpose, so i copied all the files from pen drive onto my hard disk. Now I want to use those files to make another bootable drive (A kingston 4 GB pen drive). Anybody knows?
Its no issue if you have Win7 or Win8 Operating system install in you can create the boot able pendrive by your own what you have to do is just fallow the simple steps give in the below link.Step by step process to create the Bootable pen drive
In passato Microsoft Windows era installato su floppy disk, CD o DVD-ROM. Oggi i floppy disk appartengono al passato e persino i supporti dati ottici stanno gradualmente scomparendo. Il sistema operativo viene fornito sulla partizione di sistema di un nuovo computer o laptop oppure scaricabile con una licenza digitale online direttamente dal web.
Se tuttavia necessitate ancora di un supporto di installazione esterno, possibile ricorrere a una chiavetta USB avviabile. pi veloce e pi compatta di un supporto dati ottico e altrettanto adatta alla creazione di un (nuovo) sistema. Oltre a ci offre molti altri possibili utilizzi.
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I campi di applicazione di una chiavetta USB avviabile sono molteplici. La sua caratteristica pi importante, naturalmente, la capacit di avviare il PC quando non si avvia pi a causa di un'infezione da virus, un grave errore di sistema, un disco rigido rotto o problemi di partizione. Il piccolo pezzo di hardware la soluzione standard a tal fine, poich permette di installare un intero sistema operativo e/o un sistema di soccorso come il multi-virus scanner Sardu e quindi di avviare e riparare con successo il computer.
Gli esperti informatici e i professionisti IT amano inoltre usare la chiavetta USB avviabile come "sistema operativo portatile" (in Microsoft il concetto conosciuto come "Windows2Go"), funzione che permette di utilizzare la propria versione di Windows con tutti i propri strumenti preferiti e file personali anche su altri computer senza dover modificare il sistema operativo gi installato, non importa che sia Windows o altro.
Tale opzione consente innanzitutto di navigare nel vostro ambiente di lavoro familiare invece di dover accedere ai documenti importanti tramite un cloud. Inoltre un sistema operativo portatile offre maggiore sicurezza nel caso in cui sul computer siano presenti virus o siano in agguato dei keylogger per memorizzare le password.
inoltre possibile creare una chiavetta USB avviabile su un computer diverso da quello che si desidera utilizzare in seguito. Fondamentalmente sono due i possibili approcci a tale problema: strumenti manuali o automatici. La prima opzione potrebbe sembrare un po' complicata a prima vista ed un po' pi soggetta a errori a causa delle numerose voci da inserire manualmente, ma in realt pu essere eseguita anche da un assoluto principiante.
possibile scaricare legalmente diverse versioni di Windows da Microsoft. Si prega di tenere presente, tuttavia, che per l'attivazione e l'uso legale del sistema operativo necessaria una licenza ottenibile online sotto forma di un codice prodotto. Senza questa autorizzazione ufficiale i vostri diritti d'uso sono severamente limitati a un uso di 30 giorni. Ci implica che non avete pi a disposizione le opzioni di personalizzazione e nemmeno il supporto di aggiornamento e riceverete costanti avvisi che vi ricordano di attivare la versione per Windows il pi presto possibile.
Se ritenete di essere in grado di occuparvi del necessario "lavoro manuale", potete semplicemente usare l'applicazione cmd.exe, nota come "prompt dei comandi", per creare una chiavetta USB avviabile su tutti i sistemi operativi a partire da Windows Vista (incluso Windows 10). Ecco come funziona:
Per completare il processo sufficiente copiare il file ISO di Windows sulla chiavetta USB avviabile servendosi della funzione drag&drop. Se utilizzate un disco di installazione, anche possibile trascinare tutti i file di installazione da l alla chiavetta (si possono anche visualizzare tutti i file nascosti utilizzando le opzioni di cartella). In alternativa si pu utilizzare il prompt dei comandi. Per un supporto di origine con la lettera "D:" e una chiavetta USB con la lettera "G:", il comando corrispondente ad esempio: "xcopy D:\*.* G:\*.* /S /E /F" (gli spazi sono voluti).
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