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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: kevinp on March 16, 2011, 12:58:38 am ---Hi,
My partition table looks exactly like yours including the bootable flag set. GRUB seems to install without any complaint, yet I still get the same error.
Maybe I'll revisit this in a few versions but its waaay too complicated just to get booting for me. Looks like back to Windows for now.
Thanks
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on March 15, 2011, 05:25:26 pm ---http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
Try that, it might be a quick fix to grub for now. I need to look into things more, one check also before rebooting after install would be to check and send me the contents of /groovyarcade/boot/grub.conf (where the install mounts the / partition) and possibly of 'fdisk -l' too.
I think that disk claims to fix grub installations, it's worth a shot until I can figure out more, and possibly would see what is going on pretty quickly if your able to get those two fdisk and grub.conf output/file information.
This link seems like the right one for what we need...
http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub-disk/
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Sounds good, I'll work on making it more automatic and figure out more about what exactly is a failsafe grub setup, seems tricky and guessing there must be certain factors that get in the way even if things look the same. I read about how possibly sometimes the systems bios requires a separate grub partition instead of using the main root / one, so just another possible issue going on. The whole grub setup and partitioning has been probably the hardest part of making sure the setup is clean and reliable, seems for some reason it's hard to automate but since others do it must be some secret they are using.
kevinp:
Thanks so much for your hard work and quick replies.. I think when this gets sorted out you will have a very very nice setup, especially for 64 bit users. As good as Soft15khz works, I think that linux has a better future for a nearly embedded arcade setup. I used to love the whole HyperSpin-esque razzle dazzle but I found that stuff to just get in the way of playing the games. May main interest now is a fast-booting, fast-running and reliable front end.
I'll be waiting anxiously =]
General_Faliure:
I also have the grub problem.
I installed Opensuse on the second hard drive and Opensuse added groovymame to the grub menu, so i could give it a test run.
I could startup Wahcade and play a game, so far it works, i didn't have much time to play around with it.
It is a bit slow at starting up tough.
The hardware of the test system: athlon 64 3000, 1 gigabyte ram, ati 9600.
My cab runs on similar hardware, but starts up a lot faster.
I would like to know how to add more games, and maybe some more emulators, (like Daphne).
Is there also a file manager? mc didn't work.
Greetz, Ger.
bitbytebit:
In the next 24 hours I'll I now have new ISO's up, they should fix the Grub issues, they should automate partition setup, and a few other fixes, they will have midnight commander file manager available from the setup menu. So hopefully will be a big step in setup ease, really should be able to just run the 'Install' option and it'll do most everything for you now, no need to know about partition setup details anymore.
Also I now am including the LXDE Window manager which has a graphical file manager, and mplayer/ffmpeg plus gstreamer etc... Chromium, so it's more than an arcade system, it's a full on Multimedia Linux system too...
--- Code: --- - Midnight Commander file manager added and able to be entered through main menu.
- Fixes for X Windows detection, xorg.conf only exists if created by setup, so
we know if it needs to be setup by the user during install.
- Automatic partition setup, can specify a disk drive and all partitions are setup
magically for you, no need to worry about layout.
- Automatic Grub setup, no longer need to do anything, it's done and done right
- Updated SDL to re-read system modelines each time the listmodes is called
- Updated to GroovyMame 008 with changeres support
- Add wiimote init script by Ves
--- End code ---
As soon as I get the ISO's built/uploaded, I'll post, should be version 1.515 release.
ufoufo512:
Great project! I really have longed for a replacement for AdvanceMame DOS that I have used until now.
I am using Pentium IV 2,4 GHz, Ati Radeon X800 Pro and an arcade monitor. I yesterday tried the older version 1.500 with the Voodoo3 and Matrox G400 I used to use with AdvanceMame DOS. Those cards didn't work. Fortunately I found an old Radeon which seems to work better. So far with the new version, I have been able to see LiveCD booting and AdvanceMenu in 15 KHz glory, but games themselves are using wrong garbled display mode.
I will keep tinkering with the software, I don't have a spare hard disk atm, but I will try to improvise with a USB stick.
I really hope this project will stay updated. I try to contribute something myself too. Bug reports and feature requests if nothing else.
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