batocera x86 64bit.

Aartak

downloaded the x86 64 bit version 5.24. pushed drive using etcher. tried to boot off the flash drive and i get a message "operating system not found." I put the flash drive back into my windows computer and it shows a 3gb fat32 partition. I thought this image was supposed to create a ext3 partition. Personally i think there was something wrong with the image i downloaded, but since this was my first time working with etcher and linux images that maybe i could have done something wrong. any help with this would be appreciated.

BZZ

Aartak did you set your bios correctly ? did you try re-installing / re-downloading it again ?

Aartak

re-downloaded three times. pushed to two different usb drives using both etcher and rufus. same results every time. where in the process of pushing to the drive would i set bios?

BZZ

Aartak I am not sure if I understand correctly. You need to find something like 'boot order' in bios.

Aartak

ok. yes went into boot order and told it to boot using usb drive first. when i then tried to boot it said "operating system not found"

BZZ

Aartak What is the hardware you're using? Try this as well: https://forum.batocera.org/d/2782-no-way-to-boot-from-usb

BernoO

I have a Sony VAIO laptop. I got the same issue. Some "new" HW likes more booting from UEFI that from CMS (Or legacy) ...and sometimes normal UEFI (Grub2 or else) boot won't work, so we have to use rEFInd for this. Follow the instructions on this thread and test:

https://forum.batocera.org/d/2604-solve-the-nuc-batocare-boot-problem-causes-black-screen

Good luck!

Aartak

ok. i see where you guys going with these suggestions so i think i need to be more clear. from what i understand batocera is a version of linux correct? so when i push the image to the flash drive i should end up with a linux partition on the drive. Right? that is not happening. when i push the image that i downloaded from batocera.org i end up with a 3gb partition that is formatted fat32. i don't think that is what is supposed to happen. so what i am thinking is that somehow there is something wrong with the file that is posted for download on the batocera website currently.

BernoO

Aartak When you create the Flash drive with batocera, there's 2 partitions. One is FAT32 (yes. FAT32. Not NTFS, not EXT, not brtFS...) and 3 GB size called "BATOCERA". 2nd partition is created by the system itself when is booted for the first time and it's a EXT4 type, called "SHARE" .

Your partition is correct. Your problem it's booting.

You got a spare PC or old laptop around? Try a fresh installation on other HW and see if it's the flash drive or your PC/Laptop. If it works, try the rEFInd solution and change boot to UEFI.

Trust me! It happen the same to me. I tried and change partition on Gparted several times(changing flags, MBR to GPT, changing size partition, etc...) and the only thing that works was rEFInd on this particular Laptop. Make your flash drive with rufus. Etcher won't work.

Now, why FAT32? Don't know. I suppose that Batocera has its base on Recalbox, and since Recalbox also use FAT32...also, compatibility? (CMS/Legacy - UEFI support on almost everything. NTFS won't work on old HW. EXT is not supported on several BIOS/UEFI boot...)

zhidd

I have similar issue with this before. Just use plop boot manager.

Bizness

You have to enable Legacy OS in your BIOS

Aartak

ok. I tried the flash drive in my nephews pc and booted just fine. when i started this the intention was to use it on that system anyways so that part is good. I wanted to try it out on my laptop so i could get familiar with it before i gave it to him. I still want to get it working on my laptop cause now i am aggravated. so i tried that refind thing and that still did not work. i looked at the refind documentation and one of the things it mentions is that it is for systems that use EFI or UEFI and it gives instructions on how to check for it. Apparently my laptop is old enough that it does not use EFI. which is just raises more questions because my nephews pc is a lot older than my laptop. am i having issues because the laptop is too old or too new?