Blank sceen on booting usb installer

g12345567

Currently running Batocera 30 ×64 on an old laptop and working fine. Wanted to update to latest version 32 but realised that the boot partition from older installation is only 3gb and not big enough to install the update.

I’ve decided to reinstall 32 from scratch. Problem is that when I boot from the usb installer it just flashes Syslinux line on the screen for a second. Then just displays a blank screen and won’t go any further. Any ideas what to to do to fix installer blank screen?

Atari

“an old laptop” I really hope you made a backup before attempting this, you may need to roll back to that older version.

g12345567

I worked it out. Batocera not booting from USB. Works perfectly when installed and run from internal drive. Also backed up any data/roms etc before clean installing Batocera.

Installing latest Batocera on intenal HDD/SSD.

Note: This will erase all data and install a clean copy of Batocera.

Required Software:

Latest Batocera Installation IMG

https://batocera.org/

Rufus (The Reliable USB Formatting Utility)

https://rufus.ie/en/

Windows 10 Bootable Image such as Hiren’s BootCD PE x64 (v1.0.2)

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

RoadKill’s Disk Image software.

https://roadkils-disk-image.soft112.com/

16gb+ USB stick. (Installation requires 11gb space)

After downloading required software

Extract Batocera download
Run Rufus on Windows.

Device: USB stick. ISO Select: HBCD_PE_x64.iso. Partition Scheme: MBR then start to create bootable Windows PE USB

Once completed copy extracted batocera IMG and DiskImage setup to USB. Then safely remove USB.
Insert USB into computer you want to install Batocera and boot from USB.
Once windows has booted to desktop.
If any partitions exist on the drive you wish to install Batocera. Run Disk Management and delete all patitions. Leave drive unpartitioned.
Close Disk Management.
Install and run Roadkill’s Disk Image software from USB.

Write To: Select unpartitioned Physical Disk. Source File: Select batocera IMG file from USB. Then Start.

Once image has been written to drive. Shutdown PC. Remove USB. Restart PC and boot from HDD to complete Batocera installation.

There will now be two partitions on the Batocera installation drive. A smaller 6gb boot partition for the OS and a larger User Data partition containing the remaining free space.