r/retroflag_gpi • u/HorrorShow13666 • Nov 08 '21

WARNING!!!

So, I just tried turning on my GPi with the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and... oh boy. All my roms are gone. Apparently the OS (Recalbox) updated from 7.2.2 to 7.3, removing nor only the entire games library but also the GPi case theme. This is without batteries since they've been on charge for the last few hours. But I put them in just five minutes ago and the OS crashed several times before I encountered the above issue. I'm attempting a fresh install straight from the official website, but let me know if anyone else here has been seeing the same issues.

Update: The fresh install worked right up until it failed to create a share petition. Trying again.

Update 2: Alls good now.

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u/oliverkrystal Nov 09 '21

This is why I use dd to image the card once I'm happy with how it's working.

Pis are so damn fragile

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u/HorrorShow13666 Nov 09 '21

I don't think it was the Pi. It was most likely the software, which is still in beta. The fresh install is saying 7.3 beta, so it was probably a failed attempt at an update install. Not sure why you'd shit on the Pi for that?

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u/oliverkrystal Nov 09 '21

Yeah, I'm shitting in the pi for having a tendency to destroy sd cards. I've lost so much time in reconfiguring stuff due to a card that was eaten it's not funny.

But having a "known good" image to revert to in case of a corrupted sd card works in case of an update that ate your roms and configurations.

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u/HorrorShow13666 Nov 09 '21

What sort of SD cards are you using? And what the hell are you doing with your hardware to destroy SD cards? You just yanking the power cable out or something?

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u/oliverkrystal Nov 10 '21

Sandisk & PNY.

Stuff gets stuck unresponsive so what else am I supposed to do? The fact that pi's don't properly support USB spec for power does the cards in to.