Raspberry 4 retropie after shutdown I have to reflash
January 8, 2024, 01:00
So basically I got this raspberry 4 for 25 dollars, I've never owned a raspberry before nor have I operated Linux. I got an SD card and a usb flash and got it to work. I choose a game, my start button to go back to emulation station doesn't work so I shut it down. When I power it back on it gets me to a screen like cmd on windows with the name "busy box" nowhere on the internet have I found a similiar problem. Every time I shut down I have to reflash because I can't get to emulation station a second time without doing so
Try to flash an older one.
How do you shut ddown?
I unplug the power from the outlet
That is the problem. A Linux system (Windows and MAC also) needs to be powered off in the operating system first.
So never unplug the power without pressing the shutdown button on the screen or typ sudo poweroff in a terminal
I will try tonight
What about sudo shutdown now?
Poweroff is equ to that
Yes the pi4 has a shutdown button apparently but mine didn't come with that
So idk how to shut I'd own properly
Another thing is what is "busy box"
And how do I launch emustation from it cuz I don't know the commands neither can I find it on the web
Retropi has one on the display that you can click on.
Busy box is the firmware that start the OS (retropi)
And no Raspberry Pi (4 and earlier) has a physical button.
But you add one but that inclides soldering
It's like a cable with on of switch
or using wires to the GPIO pins
Not an actual button on the board
That should be used after the OS is safely shut down (CLI command sudo poweroff).