Posts by ian_j

  • Emulation

    I have LibreELEC up and running on the SSD and all of my settings from the original install are transferred.

    Now I have space I can start adding some games.

    Before I do though should I worry about any settings I need for the SSD, Trim etc?

  • Emulation

    I don't have access to a 2nd laptop to put Linux on but I do have a 2nd card reader, tried that and still no joy.

    The only Linux based computer I have is a pocket PC, I put Gparted on that and tried a few things but still no joy.

    Unless anything else can be suggested I'll call it quits and order a couple more cards.

    As before what size / speed / brand would people recommend for LibreELEC and a some emulation stuff?

  • Emulation

    Thank you for the info.

    I tried that image in Raspberry Pi Imager, LibreELEC USB-SD Creator and BalenaEtcher.

    None could format either SD card, I think they are both duff.

    I've also tried Diskpart & putting them in my camera which has worked on multi partition SD cards before.

    I'll order a couple more SD cards, what size /brand would you recommend for LibreELEC & games?

  • Emulation

    This is getting frustrating, I cannot get either of my SD cards to format.

    I've checked and each SD has had a version of LibreELEC on it with a 512mb partition and a 29.51GB partition.

    I've tried:

    Raspberry Pi Imager 1.7.5

    BalenaEtcher Portable 1.18.11

    None could write the LibreELEC image.

    SD Card Formatter 5.0.2 Cannot format either card.

  • Emulation

    Quote from chewitt

    If you're primarily going to use LE, perhaps make a little effort to understand Games in Kodi.

    See https://kodi.wiki/view/Games

    I will, thank you for the link.

    Before I start adding items though I need to put LibreELEC on a larger SD card and here is my next issue.

    I've 2x 32GB SD cards that I can use so that I leave my original SD 16GB alone in case of user error.

    I've tried writing a new LibreELEC image to them but both fail. Each in the past has had something for the Pi on them so have 2 partitions.

    I've tried SD formatter & balanaEtcher but no joy writing to the SD cards.

    Any help appreciated.

  • Emulation

    LibreElec has never given me an issue and I want to keep it as streamlined as possible for playing media as the Pi will get much more use for that than gaming.

    I tried setting up a dual boot on the SSD.

    The story so far:

    Used PINN to setup Retropie & LibreElec but the SSD wouldn't boot even though I formatted it as Fat32.

    I updated the Pi Bootloader eeprom & Firmware on the Pi & tried again to boot the SSD but nothing.

    Next step is to try PINN on an SD card and see if that works.

  • Emulation

    I've recovered a 120GB SSD from a dead PC and thought about putting it to use as a boot drive for LibreELEC on my RPi4.

    Due to the extra storage space I'd also like to use it to hold some emulators, is this possible?