Boot from SSD (PiDrive)?

[briangilbert]

I have a piDrive on a rPI3:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2073955313/pidrive-low-power-msata-ssd-for-the-raspberry-pi

and have followed the steps at:
http://www.mictronics.de/2016/03/install-and-run-an-existing-image-from-pidrive/3/

To try and make the retropie image boot directly from the hard drive, but the resizing script just ran forever (4hours until I killed it)

After rebooting I see the retropie boot screen, but after that I’m thrown to a prompt.

df shows the following:

Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root        2371536 2284240         0 100% /
devtmpfs          372268       0    372268   0% /dev
tmpfs             376588       0    376588   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             376588    5296    371292   2% /run
tmpfs               5120       4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             376588       0    376588   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mmcblk0p1    129776   21046    108730  17% /boot
/dev/sda1          58234   19952     38282  35% /media/usb1

I’m hoping someone may be able to help me figure out how to get this working?

[InsecureSpike]

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=44177&hilit=move%2broot%2bfs%2busb%2btutorial&sid=2503f9ffe9afaa2edb49aef4537a862a

but I’d probably stay away of doing that way, as if you develop a fault in you file system, you’ll need to probably start all over again.
I’d suggest just running your roms from your pi drive!

[briangilbert]

Thanks @InsecureSpike.

I ended up using one of the Multo Boot Pi images:
http://www.multibootpi.com/builds/retropie3-6_openelec6-0-3/#more-1

So your suggestion to just run the roms from the drive seems a much simpler way to do it.. What would be the recommended way to direct the emulators to look there for them?

[InsecureSpike]

edit the es_systems.cfg

sudo nano /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

edit these bits… <path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiga</path>

i would also move it to

/opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation

so as updates won’t write over it

[briangilbert]

@InsecureSpike

Thanks, worked a treat!

[InsecureSpike]

awesome mate!

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