Pleilleur's Choice #1 Dualboot Windows 10 and Batocera

[@ryn1986]

Great video! I thought I would share this for anyone that runs into this problem. If you are running an older machine that does not support UEFI and runs in BIOS mode. You will need to correct the custom script to the following: getpartition file /batocera-boot.conf root linux /boot/linux label=BATOCERA console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 initrd /boot/initrd.gz

[@pleilleur]

Thanks a lot for your feedback and your solution, I was about to try install it on some old 32 bit hardware. Perfect timing !

[@rahulmohanty4724]

Helped me out too. Thank you 😄

[@kaiser7672]

that helped me out man thanks

[@marianosuppo8175]

hello, how are you? thanks for the solution, sorry for my bad english, i have a question: i have a replace this text: set efibootmgr=/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi getpartition file $efibootmgr root if [ ! -z $reviewpause ] ; then echo GNU Grub will load the Batocera EFI Boot Manager at disk address $root g2wsleep fi echo GNU Grub is now loading the Batocera EFI Boot Manager chainloader $efibootmgr savelast 1 'Batocera' For this text: getpartition file /batocera-boot.conf root linux /boot/linux label=BATOCERA console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 initrd /boot/initrd.gz sorry for the inconvenience and thank you

[@nicoruizmza]

Thank u Tahank u!! U are the best. I spend many many days reading, looking and trying for solutions of this problem and u made it simple. Thanks again! Now I can finally use my old netbook for work and games

[@elermoz]

i had the black screen initially but go it working by doing the following: i named the volume correctly "Batocera" (had a different name before), i reduced the size from 9,99gb to 9gb, i made sure that the core partition got the volume letter E and the Batocera Data drive the volume letter F. hope this helps anyone who still got problems

[@dux3644]

hi, I'm having a problem, when I first boot batocera and go to the storage selection I can't find my ssd or anything else, I just see "internal" or "any external" devices, or if I connect an usb I will see the usb but I want to have the room's inside my ssd not an usb :/ what could be the error? I did everything exactly like in the video edit: ohhh I see, u are using an external ssd of 2TB, how could I do to use a partition of my ssd as rooms storage? as I said before, it's not being detected, I'm asuming bcos is ocuppied by windows or something, I tried making the partition bigger but it doesn't change the size of the batocera storage :c it says that there's not enough space to keep adding games

[@pleilleur]

Hi Dux, yes I used a 2TB storage (NTFS) and it is a pure separate data disk, there is no windows stuff in there. Thanks to other users feedbacks I did more tests and it is possible to create both partitions (Batocera core partition, and data patition - for games) by cutting 2 partitions in the Windows disk. In this case make sure you keep sufficient space for Windows data on the main Windows partition. I will do a new video for that and other improvements but basically you can try that by using the partition creation I explained in the video : 1) First remove any batocera partition you created 2) Create a XX GB partition for batocera data (I put XX as it will be up to you to choose the amount of space you want to give to Batocera for userdata directory) 3) Format this partition with NTFS (Recommended over FAT32 for data partition) 4) Create a 7 GB partition, still from the Windows partition, this will be the Batocera core, and format it with FAT32. The Partition layout should look like that : | EFI | Windows C: | Batocera (7GB - Fat32) | Batocera_data (XX GB - NTFS) | Recovery (optional) Now if you let the storage to INTERNAL, the default behavior of Batocera is to use the partition RIGHT AFTER the Batocera core, this is why the data partition must be on the right of the core partition. This worked for me on an Intel NUC. Let me know if this works for you, otherwise we can go to discord for easier troubleshooting.

[@dux3644]

@@pleilleur it worked!!! Thank you so much! I wasn't able to find a solution anywhere, your detailed explanation was super useful and easy of understand

[@pleilleur]

@@dux3644 Great, thanks for your support.

[@jdfn3]

@pleilleur Some help will be appreciated. I have 2 SSD in the mini pc Disk 0 (4T) Partition1 FAT32 with Batocera and Particion2 NTFS for the rooms. Disk 1 (2TB) with Windows 11 I have used the option using custom code, using your code, when Windows restart then I get into the Grub2Win menu, then I select Batocera and it looks like it finds the Batocera entry but it goes to Win11 1. Not sure if the order of the disks will make any difference 2. Not sure if by having the Batocera on a different disk than the one with Win11 will also make any difference. Any ideas will be appreciated!

[@pleilleur]

Hi jdfn3, sorry for my late response, thanks for the details. My understanding of UEFI and the grub2win script, is that grub2win should find the drive with the Batocera boot path (bootx64.efi) no matter what position of the drive is. But I could be wrong, so you can try to swap the drives if it's easy for you. Question 2 is a good question, I think I only installed it on a drive with Windows. You could make a small partition on the windows drive to put Batocera core and leave the 4TB only for the roms. To be honest that would be my preferred option: the 4TB drive is dedicated for userdata, and you won't notice the 10 GB partition on your 2TB drive, again, if that is possible. What makes you think Batocera is found before it boot to windows ? Can you describe shortly what happens when you select batocera ? anything printed on the screen ?

[@veckmobile]

When I boot to batocera it doesn't boot it just boots right to windows I think the problem is with the custom code maybe for newer batocera? (Thanks in advance)

[@pleilleur]

Sorry for my late reply, I remember I faced problems with version 39, but this was a problem once batocera started. The custom code may not be read correctly, this could also be related to grub having difficulties reading the boot file. Have you tried with the other method (patching the grub.conf file), you can start reformatting the partition and uncheck the quick format, this will ensure all exisitng data will be erased (it happened once). Try with another batocera version, you can also try to boot the EFI file directly from your bios, that may depend on motherboard specs so you'll have to find the right way to do this with your motherboard (usually it is pretty obvious once in the boot menu of the bios). Let me know.

[@veckmobile]

@pleilleur before I format/use any partition I always wipe it then format. I will try batocera 38 and I will research dual booting(grub). And I'm using a HP all-in-one you could say it's a HP laptop and I can't boot to a EFI file from bios. Can you maybe do an updated video or custom code would help a lot. Thanks 👍

[@dual.theories-channel]

It seems to only boot if I install it as the main OS and nothing else. And I did that with an older computer to test it and installed the x86 version and it didn't have flatpak preinstalled so that was a bummer

[@dieverse]

help , when i start retro station its show me error : syslinux not found

[@pleilleur]

Hi, I need more info to understand what could be wrong. Have you succeeded installing Batocera using this tutorial ? When does this happen exactly ? how are you running retrostation from Batocera ?

[@chrisrave6605]

Thank you so much ❤😂🎉 after weeks of trying this works for me ❤❤❤

[@pleilleur]

Hey, awesome, thanks a lot for your feedback. Have fun now !

[@-Fritz]

Really nice , just what i have been looking for, very helpfull. 10 thumbs up and a baguette for you. Using win 10 home and batochera 33.

[@pleilleur]

Thanks mate !! Really appreciate your feedback 🥖🥖 Batocera rules.

[@-Fritz]

@@pleilleur filling it with games now , wanne see how gamecube and ps2 works.

[@pleilleur]

@@-Fritz Nice ! I tried some GC and PS2 on Intel NUC I5 and it was perfect, great FPS and no sound glitch, you'll love it.

[@incomingtruth49]

Did everything and came in the boot section where i can choose between batocera or windows. choosing windows work but if i choose batocera it just stays black. I'm trying to do it on 1 internal sdd with two partitions. Can you help me out?

[@pleilleur]

Hello, let's try to get information on your partition type (different from the format), according to the other users feedbacks this is most likely the reason why the Batocera doesn't boot. Can you start a Powershell terminal and run these 3 commands : Get-Disk Get-Volume Get-Partition Post your results here and I'll have a look. Do you know the motherboard information (part number) or your computer part number ?

[@incomingtruth49]

@@pleilleur There is one thing different though with your pc and mine at the boot section on BIOS there is no UEFI but i still could disable the secure boot. i also have more options at the batocera-boot file like #nvidia-prime=tru, radeon, disable splash screen and max resolution. I couldn't find motherboard information (checked via system info and cmd but shows AM02 and default) Below are the partitions informations: Get-Disk, Get-Volume and Get-Partition Number Friendly Name Serial Number HealthStatus OperationalStatus Total Size Partition Style ------ ------------- ------------- ------------ ----------------- ---------- ---------- 0 Hoodisk SSD BE550711152600011349 Healthy Online 119.24 GB GPT DriveLetter FriendlyName FileSystemType DriveType HealthStatus OperationalStatus SizeRemaining Size ----------- ------------ -------------- --------- ------------ ----------------- ------------- ---- C windows NTFS Fixed Healthy OK 4.64 GB 34.87 GB Recovery NTFS Fixed Healthy OK 548.16 MB 1000 MB D Retro FAT32 Fixed Healthy OK 81.05 GB 82.96 GB PartitionNumber DriveLetter Offset Size Type --------------- ----------- ------ ---- ---- 1 Z 1048576 100 MB System 2 105906176 16 MB Reserved 3 C 122683392 34.87 GB Basic 4 D 37563138048 83.28 GB Basic 5 126986747904 1000 MB Recovery

[@pleilleur]

@@incomingtruth49 Great, thanks for the details, the partition type looks good (GPT) which is designed for UEFI boot and is similar to me. If you don't see the UEFI option and your PC is recent it is possible that there is only UEFI and so there is no selection menu (can you see anything related to UEFI in other BIOS sections, like boot order ?) I guess you tried both the custom grub2win method and also using my cfg file ? The batocera partition size looks quite big, you may keep a 10GB partition only for the core and another partition for data. I can see you only have windows and batocera partition, it would be good to have one for the batocera roms and data as well. Just wondering if Batocera tries to use the recovery or windows partition for its data and it may fail. I'll try to see if we can get some information from grub2win logs.

[@incomingtruth49]

@@pleilleur Making an additional 10 GB partition worked out for me, thank you very much mate! I just have one question more; all my storage is in 1 drive and i've sliced them in different partitions as you know but now i can't select the partition to store my data/roms, via the storage device you showed. It only shows "internal" and "anyexternal" the internal one stores the data at 10GB partition which is obviously too low because i already reserved the other partitions for it. Anyexternal does also the same.

[@pleilleur]

​ @IncomingTruth Awesome ! That should solve most of the other users issues, I will add this to the description of the video. Regarding your question the Storage Device options works as follows : 1) Internal : the first partition available after the Batocera core partition (which is probably why it didn't work at first for you). This partition could be on another drive (like in my tutorial) 2) Anyexternal : any external (mostly USB) device like USB stick or external drive that will be connected when batocera boots. 3) Any internal drive except the physical drive containing Batocera core will be listed. This means you need to have at least 2 physical drives inside your computer otherwise nothing will be listed. You seem to have a 120 GB drive. If you keep your Windows partition at 35G you have 85G available, you could erase all existing batocera partition, then recreate a 10GB Core partition and a 75G Data partition ? Of course, make sure to backup the Batocera core content before erasing.

[@Rxbby64]

Please Help ! I got a message from grub2win, it says "to complete grub2win configuration you must now add or import your OS entries."

[@pleilleur]

Hello Masby, were do you get this message (at boot time or within windows when running the Grub2win program) ? Were you able to perform all the steps ? If not, when did the problem occured ?

[@Rxbby64]

@@pleilleur In 07:34 you got green in grub2win right? mine got yellow and it says like that

[@Rxbby64]

Heres my laptop specs : 250 SSD 1 TB HDD GTX 1050 3GB Ryzen 5 3550H

[@pleilleur]

@@Rxbby64 I will need to see your grub.cfg file and also a screenshot of grub2win main interface. We can switch to discord for that Pleilleur#8606

[@Rxbby64]

@@pleilleur nvm its fine now. But now the problem is my laptop can't booted up to batocera. After the splash screen, my laptop was shutting down suddenly

[@kuchesezik]

my install was over 4GB, just a heads up. you might also need more space to put games on it.

[@BARNABE123]

My batocera boot option just stay stucked at the 0 second pause. I think it's not finding the little bato partition. I did what you did. In fact I don't get how grub2win can pick the right partition since it is not identified anywhere, or am I missing something ?

[@pleilleur]

Hi BARNABE, Regarding the partition size, you even need to increase it to 9GB because of updates (updates will fail if the partition is too small and you need at least twice as much space as the partition used space, check the video description if you have'nt yet, I put some information I discovered doing troubleshooting sessions). The partition is found using the EFI path I believe. Grub2win ddoesn't have any information regarding the partition name or number so I thought it just scanned all FAT32 for the aforementionned path). However, I faced a new problem with someone else regarding partition naming. It seems that the partition needs to be called "Batocera". I tried to change the name of my partition to something else : doesn't boot. I set it back to "Batocera": boots again. I should perform further testing to double check though. Let me know if that helps

[@8axter]

Can you help me? I've got everything installed, but when trying to boot into Batocera, it attempts to, but then grub automatically pushes me to boot into windows 10.

[@pleilleur]

Hello BaX, sure we can have a look, do you have a discord account ? That would be easier for troubleshooting.

[@8axter]

@@pleilleur sure do. scobax#3213 Thanks

[@YvungBebe]

@@pleilleur what’s your discord?

[@iamjrmh]

how can i do this in windows 11? i tried it and it just wont boot into batocera, instead just takes me back to the OS selection

[@pleilleur]

Hey, sorry it didn't work straight forward. Just to make sure I got it right, when your computer boots, you can see the Grub2win interface, you choose Batocera and boot it, but then it just brings you back to the Grub2win selection menu ? Anything appears on the screen before it goes back to the selection screen, like an error message ? I have not tested on Windows 11 yet.

[@iamjrmh]

@@pleilleur i do not get an error message. it says it found it and starts to load, counts down 5 seconds (i set the timer to 5 just so i can see if theres any error codes). it then counts down 5 seconds AGAIN after the first 5 seconds, says "press any key to continue" then takes me back to the grub selection screen

[@pleilleur]

@@iamjrmh Looks like it can't execute the boot file, did you use the custom entry in grub2win or did you copy my grub.cfg file ? Can you ensure the boot file path is correct and you can see the boot file in windows explorer (EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi) ? Can you also confirm your partition is fat32 ? Just basic checks... So the behavior is : Grub2win menu appears You select Batocera Timer of 5 seconds Another timer of 5 seconds "Press any key" message Falls back to Grub2win menu Do you see Batocera logo at some point or you think it never actually leaves grub2win ? Anything happens between the 2 timers ?

[@iamjrmh]

@@pleilleur i used the custom entry. it is formatted to fat32, and i can see the boot file in windows explorer. i do not see anything in between the 5 second timer, no splash screen, instantly after the first 5 seconds, it goes right back to counting down again. is there anywhere i can contact you so i can send pictures of what it shows (like discord or insta)?

[@pleilleur]

@@iamjrmh Yes, you can reach me on discord Pleilleur # 8606

[@ToTBoO]

Mine doesnt show nvidea driver line from the batocera-boot config. It has enable nvidia prime switcher or radeon prime switcher

[@pleilleur]

Hello Carlos, I'm using version 35, for me the nvidia-driver line is just above the nvidia-prime. If the nvidia-driver line is missing (and assuming you are using v35) I guess you can just add the nvidia-driver=true line just before the prime one. If it still doesn't work, I would download the whole thing again and start from scratch.

[@sharpshooterofky]

Great video!! I"ve been wondering about this and now I know it's possible. And I know with this great tutorial I can do it!! Thanks!!

[@pleilleur]

Thank you for your feedback, greatly appreciated. Make sure you check the video description, a lot of things have been enhanced since I made the video and the installation is even easier now :)

[@sharpshooterofky]

@@pleilleur will do and thanks.

[@magodohardware6702]

Thank you for this excellent video, my friend! I was looking for a method that was possible to boot Batocera and Windows by UEFI. It worked perfectly on Windows 8.1, thank you very much!

[@pleilleur]

Thanks a lot for your support, I'm so glad this video was useful for you. I'll update the description to add a successful installation with Windows 8.1, can you tell me roughly what kind of hardware you have (old/recent, laptop/desktop, nvidia) ? Have fun with your GamingStation !

[@magodohardware6702]

@@pleilleur Thanks for the feedback. I use an i7 laptop, 6 GB RAM, with NVidia driver support. Batocera starts up perfectly as you taught in UEFI mode, but I'm having problems with storage. I want to use a partition of my own HD to be "SHARE" partition of Batocera, but putting the option "Internal" doesn't work. I've formatted the partition in exFat, NTFS, FAT32 and nothing works, any idea how to solve it?

[@pleilleur]

@@magodohardware6702 I'm not sure if this is possible, according to me you need 2 physical drives for that, Batocera will not show the drive on which it is installed. I have a laptop with 256G NVMe for Windows and an additional 2T SSD drive for data. If you have the ability to add another storage in your laptop I believe that will do the trick. I'd like to understand that behavior when I'll have time.

[@magodohardware6702]

@@pleilleur Thanks for the help my friend! I managed to solve the storage problem! Once Batocera starts up, you need to enter the system options and choose the INTERNAL option for storage, then you need to indicate through the terminal which partition you want to use as storage and save it in the Batocera boot file. Each partition has its own code. I'll leave a video for you, if you're interested, that better explains everything I said. Watch from 8:14 minutes. I'm sure it will be very useful for you too, Thank you so much my friend! Video link: disk.yandex.ru/i/tp4EPirqR1N9SQ

[@pleilleur]

@@magodohardware6702 Well done ! That makes sense, I will add this to my tutorial when possible and try it as well, definitely a great improvement 👍. I also figured out you can get a zip version of Batocera, which removes the need of Rufus, I should add this as well. Thank you for sharing that, this is cool stuff.

[@Bmagj2]

I'm not sure my Grub2win file will work on Windows 11 22h2 latest build. I get the following "input file open error C:xxx\appdata\local\temp\grub2win.setup.exe.2212211170066\commands\mountvol.commands.txt" I tried it on my other Win 11 22h1 and it seemed to function ok. The 22h2 PC is a fresh install with an account name having spaces and an "&" symbol. Would that affect the booting?

[@pleilleur]

Hi Bmagj2, That's weird! I don't think the account name would cause a problem in the boot process. Maybe in grub2win internal behavior but I really doubt that. You may try to use another account name just be sure, won't take much time (why not Bmagj2 ;)) I don't understand why that txt file woud be involed in the boot process. It seems to be related to the grub2win setup, that file is useless once grub2win is installed. When and how exactly does this error occured ?

[@kess0009]

@pleilleur grub2win no longer boots to batocera after updating to batocera 39. anyone with the same issue?

[@tridi888]

Hi, i've successfull install batocera at my laptop, dual boot with win10, but why batocera create the userdata folder at my root directory of my share partition? Not in folder batocera like yours?

[@tridi888]

My configuration partition is: 1. Efi system 2. c: [WINDOWS] 3. recovery 4. e; [BATOCERA] 5. d: [DATA]

[@tridi888]

Batocera automaticly place the userdata folder at my root directory of d: [DATA]. This partition is not empty, i use it to keep my windows file too. How can i configure batocera to place the userdata in the folder batocera? Not in root directory. I'm using batocera 37

[@pleilleur]

@@tridi888 Hi, Do you have 1 physical drive ? If yes, then you can't choose the userdata drive in Batocera settings: only physical hard drive will show there, that excludes the physical drive holding Batocera core. You can't have the userdata folder in the same partition as Batocera core partition, it needs to be another partition. Several options: - Either keep it has it is, if it's not a problem for you. - You can create another partition so that your data partition is not mixed up with batocera data. The partition used for userdata must be right after the batcoera one, that means between 4 and 5, which involves potential transfer of all your data from the DATA partition (to a temporary backup space elsewhere). Then erase the DATA partition, create a new one for batocera userdata (which will be right after Batocera partition) then recreate your DATA partition. Be careful with this procedure, if not done correctly you may loose data. - You can add a physical drive (This is my setup, that's why I could choose this drive for userdata), then choose it from Batocera settings. That's probably the simplest solution if you want to change your setup. According to me, unless there is a conflict with other processes, having your userdata on a drive that holds other data is not a problem, one of my setup is like that.

[@tridi888]

@@pleilleur thx for the reply and yes i'm using 1 physical drive but now i've solved my problem using @magodohardware6702 tips, using sharedevide=DEV

[@batouttahell24]

“Error: invalid signature” Is there a fix for this?

[@pleilleur]

Hello, sorry for my very very late answer, I didn't see your comment in my notifications. Hope you fixed the problem since then. If not, this error message is usually realted to the Secure boot BIOS option, this option should be disabled (it seems some users didn't need it but it is definitely related to a boot signature that is not allowed by default - Batocera boot signature) look at 0:25

[@batouttahell24]

@@pleilleur I have a laptop that has a Legacy BIOS (and therefore has no option for Secure Boot)…at least I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.

[@pleilleur]

@@batouttahell24 I see, so you're probably using MBR and not GPT, I would check the windows partitioning (I usually use following powershell commands : Get-Disk, Get-Volume, Get-Partition) and you may try to install it with a MBR Grub2win install (if that is possible), I don't remember having done a MBR installation :( I also tried it using bcdedit but never succeeded yet.

[@pleilleur]

@@batouttahell24 I found this thread : askubuntu.com/questions/654530/error-invalid-signature-when-configuring-dual-boot-ubuntu-14-04-and-windows-1, the selected answer is very interesting.

[@arowhen]

I installed Grub2win no problem. But Batocera won't boot, just goes back to Windows 11. I have Win11 installed on SSD and Batocera on Hhd; both inside computer. Not sure what I did wrong.

[@pleilleur]

If it falls back to WIndows, it could mean that grub2in config is not configured properly or that the batocera installation is not correct on the partition. Check that the boot file is accessible on your batocera drive : D:\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi (drive letter may differ). If it looks good you could copy/paste your grub.cfg config here so I can have a quick look . You can also run the following 3 commands with powershell prompt in Windows 11 : Get-Disk Get-Volume Get-Partition Then remove the serial number of your drives from the output and copy it here, I will have a look over the weekend.

[@TheRGBPlus]

Hi. The system starts and works! The problem is, the settings are not saved after the reboot. I connect Wi-Fi, but after rebooting Batocera does not remember it

[@pleilleur]

Hi LRN, It looks like it didn't find the userdata partition and uses a volatile partition, either in RAM or on the core partition. Is it the same for roms ? If you put roms, at the next boot they disappeared ?

[@Jfbegood2yourself]

For some reason I don't see batocera in the grub config file. So I'm not able to add to the custom code. I've created a partition and copied boot files from my USB. What can I check? Edit: I was able to find the entry and I added it to the custom code. But now when I reboot and select batocera, I get a black screen.

[@pleilleur]

Hi Joseph, does the black screen remains ? Or it fall back to batocera menu ? or to windows ? Can you see the Batocera logo at some point or it just gives you the black screen right away ?

[@Jfbegood2yourself]

@@pleilleur thanks for the reply. It was a black screen that wouldn't load any of my operating systems. I ended up dropping the grub application and just installed batocera to a second internal hard drive and basically just swap the boot order.

[@pleilleur]

@@Jfbegood2yourself Right, I talked with some other users about that, that's kind of the same thing, especially if you don't boot often Windows it may be an faster solution. Regarding Batocera your problem looks similar to another one I faced before. You may try to do a complete format of the batocera core partition, that means not a quick format, a real format process that erase everything on the drive, a quick format mostly destroys the FAT and could leave some bytes here and there. I did that with someone else and it booted afterwards.

[@Jfbegood2yourself]

@@pleilleur I will consider that option. But to be honest I really like the way the computer is right now and i do like the idea of being able to simply pull out the second hard drive and use it as an external at any time w/o affecting windows.

[@dual.theories-channel]

I did everything exactly the same yet the batocera won't load. what could the issue be?

[@pleilleur]

Hello Jason, this depends where it fails, I guess you have the grub menu working ? What happens when you select and run batocera : black screen, batocera loads and then freeze, falls back to windows, or something else ?

[@dual.theories-channel]

@@pleilleur hey mybad for the late reply. it shows batocera... it just doesn't boot... it tries twice then goes to windows 10

[@dual.theories-channel]

does it have to be the same drive or can it be a second drive you have installed?

[@pleilleur]

@@dual.theories-channel One fast thing you can try : do a full erase when creating the batocera partition (not "quick format"), I did that with someone once and it solved the problem: this could be a problem with old data that remains on the drive and "scramble" the boot reading, weird but possible. Regarding the boot drive, it could be another drive, as long as the partition is fat32. Not sure I actually tested it though.

[@dual.theories-channel]

@pleilleur I'm actually ready to give up. I deleted it reinstalled it all day and did the exact same video instructions and the reason I did it is because one of my computers doesn't recognize my external hdd to boot from. My laptop with the rtx 2060 so I tried learning how to store it local all day because I pretty much mastered batocera but this boot problem is too hard-core for me lol

[@JeuxDangeHeureux]

Bonjour, ayant je pense bien suivi le tuto j'ai au moment que je sélectionne Batocera avec grub , le message d'erreur invalid signature (secure boot désactivé ), je n'arrive pas a savoir d'où ca vient

[@pleilleur]

Bonjour, désolé que tu rencontres ce problème, est ce que tu as la possibilité de continuer sur Discord (Pleilleur) pour pouvoir échanger des screenshots ou des confs plus facilement ?

[@pavlesormaz1696]

Is a motherboard's support for UEFI required to follow this guide? Also, when I load into BIOS, it doesn't display the "Secure Boot" option, but it does have a "UEFI Boot" option. I'm asking this because for me, my BIOS mode is listed as "Legacy" and not "UEFI"...

[@pleilleur]

Hi Pavle, Yes this tutorial is made for UEFI Boot mode, are you able to change the Boot mode or is Legacy the only option ?

[@pavlesormaz1696]

@@pleilleur I don't have any way to change boot mode, it seems it's only on Legacy. But like I said before, in BIOS I have an option called "UEFI Mode" and it can be either Enabled / Disabled.

[@pleilleur]

@@pavlesormaz1696 OK, have you tried that yet (switching UEFI to "enabled" ) ? According to me that will change the boot mode from Legacy to UEFI, however I'm not sure if this can be done without breaking the current windows installation.

[@henrymcmiller]

Thank you! This is exactly what I need, since I have only space for one storage device in my mini pc. Though, what is the benefit from making a small core partition (10GB) and another partition for the games instead of one bigger partition?

[@pleilleur]

Thanks Henry, nice to hear that. Regarding partition, this is the way Batocera is built: you can't have a single partition: the core partition will mount the userdata partition at boot time. This is a good technical choice : it allows you to do a full update of batocera core without bothering about userdata, it also allows to mount network shared drive easily. Now, for the core partition, the idea is to use the smallest possible storage size, because it's not meant to grow that much (it just needs about 3 times the size of the actual content to handle update process). Then all the remaining space is dedicated for userdata. Does it make sense ?

[@henrymcmiller]

@@pleilleur absolutely, now I get it and I have to admit that this is a good architectual choice to keep the system and the user data seperated from each other. First I was wondering how to connecct the data with the core system but batocera did this somehow automatically. Your video and answer helped mew a lot thanks again! ⭐

[@momenalshorman4663]

When i installed grub2win it didnt recognise windows what to i do

[@pleilleur]

Hello Momen, sorry for my late reply, I missed your comment. Do you still face the problem ?

[@momenalshorman4663]

@@pleilleur No i solved it but thanks anyway on the reply

[@teddy.courvix]

Can you please help me I got the black screen error and u said I need to do the core partion thing I dont really get it + I am running it on a usb is that alright?

[@pleilleur]

No, USB should be only at the beginning. If you're not familiar with partitioning that may be hard to explain everything through youtube comments. Have you already ran Batocera one way or another ?

[@Ellieharleyroyxxx]

thanks again eh talk about being stupid watched the video to end and saw where i went wrong great job thanks

[@samju2091]

Hi i have same prob like iamjrmh with Win11. Error Message "invalid sector size 65535" and "You must load the core first" Please help

[@pleilleur]

Hi Samju, I tried to find information based on your error messages, I found 2 possible causes for your issue : 1) Disk encryption : do you know if your disk was encrypted when Windows 11 was installed ? 2) Do you have any other drive connected to your computer ? People reported that removing a SD card reader or USB device solved the problem, which is not very satisfying but as a starting point you should try to siplify your config as much as possible by keeping a single disk drive, if possible. If you do that though, you may need to create an additional partition for Batocera userdata. Additionally you can run the following commands in a powershell terminal and send me the output on discord (Pleilleur#8606) Get-Disk Get-Volume Get-Partition FYI, I believe iamjrmh moved back to W10, I haven't heard from him since we tried to solve his issue.

[@samju2091]

@@pleilleur The first time i tried method b (add batocera entry manually) with the error. It works with method a. Batocera starts. But Windows always started in repair mode. I found old Windows partitions on my second SSD. Deleted these. Now Win and Bato work without problems. Thank you, Danke schön, Merci beaucoup

[@pleilleur]

@@samju2091 Good job !! Now it's playtime 👍

[@jjjj-ct5ks]

Thanks alot great video but for the version 39 missing step but manage to do it with the help of your video and the documentation on their website. Please update for other and i appreciated without your vidro i would be able to do it .

[@BigDfromStem]

very good video. I have been able to access the dualbooter. however, it does not allow me to access the batocera. It says that there is an error: filename expected. Do you know of any possible solutions for this?

[@BigDfromStem]

I am able to access batocera from the bios, but it is giving me a black screen.

[@pleilleur]

Hi, thanks for your message, I'll have some time to look at it later this week, will keep you updated.

[@BigDfromStem]

@@pleilleur At the current time, I have gotten it to work. Windows + Ubuntu + Batocera all works.

[@pleilleur]

@@BigDfromStem Well done ! I got a really busy week last week... Anyway, congrats for the triple boot, do you know what was the problem with this error message ? In case other users meet this problem.

[@BigDfromStem]

@@pleilleur Im not sure the exact issue, but I can write down a number of them right now (for batocera) , and tell u my solutions: -> Batocera not opening from BIOS or Grub2Win: -> Reinstall Batocera completely, with new partitions (12GB Fat32 & Other Partition whatever size, EXT4 of NTFS) -> Batocera opening from BIOS, not from Grub2win: -> Delete Batocera shortcut from Grub2Win, recreate shortcut. -> Batocera not detecting correct user data partition: -> Make the user data partition right next to the boot partition (go into windows hard drive configuration to change partitions) -> In Batocera, unable to play N64, Dreamcast, PSX, etc. -> In Windows, download Breezip (recommended from me). Then unzip the game files. Some do need to be unzipped to be played, some don't. -> Current list of Games that do need to be unzipped: N64, 3DO, CD-I, Dreamcast, Saturn, PSX, Gamecube

[@aussiejace8572]

I have batocera installed on one hard drive and windows on another hard drive is there a way of doing a boot menu to select which hard drive i want to use etc...

[@pleilleur]

Hello, Aussie Jace, yes, Grub2win will handle that. You should be able to do it following this guide, skip the batocera partition creation part if batocera is already installed on your second drive. And make sure to check the description of this video for all the correction I did from users feedback.

[@loloprune]

Merci pour le tuto. nickel :)

[@pleilleur]

Merci pour ton retour.

[@mudifemh]

Works nicely. Thank you

[@richarddukard8989]

So you can't do this with an intel nuc? There's no nvidia gpu

[@pleilleur]

Hi Richard, Yes you can, just don't uncomment the nvidia driver line, you should have an intel line instead, all the other steps remain the same. I have already installed a setup on intel NUC, performances were good, even for GC or PS2 (depends on the NUC performances).

[@saberplayer]

how do i boot into batocera? i did everything but i just dont know how to boot into batocera

[@pleilleur]

Hi Saberplayer, I need a little more information to try to help you. Let's say you have done the partition and the grub2win install correctly, what happens when you reboot : - Can you see Grub boot menu ? - Do you see the Batocera entry in the menu ? - If you select the Batocera entry, nothing happens ? Or a quick message appears on screen and then boot to windows ? Or it starts to boot and screen stays black ? Or Batocera logo appears and then it hangs ? Try to give me as much information as you can on what you do and what happens ;)

[@saberplayer]

@pleilleur when i click on the batocera entry, it just boots into windows

[@pleilleur]

@@saberplayer My first guess is that your batocera config in grub.cfg was erased. Check the C:\grub2\grub.cfg file for the Batocera entry, it may have been accidentaly deleted when using Grub2win user interface (this can happen). Look fpr the "menuentry 'Batocera '" line,it should be followed by several lines of code, if it just contains "savelast 1 'Batocera'" you need to copy the content from my grub.cfg file again.

[@saberplayer]

@@pleilleur thanks, ill try that when i have the time and ill reply when its fixed.

[@pleilleur]

@@saberplayer If it doesn't work the first time don't give up, we can try multiple ways if needed, it took me several tries to do it :)

[@DukeTurnip]

Will this method work for me if I have my installations of windows and batoceta on two separate SSDs inside my computer? I installed a dedicated SSD just to host batoceta and the RAM files.

[@pleilleur]

Hi Duke, you can do that, I don't see anything that would prevent it. When creating your partition, just create the Batocera core FAT32 partition at the beginning of your second drive (give it 10G just to be sure) then you can create a NTFS partition on the remaining space of that 2nd drive for the ROMs.

[@michaelmichael-hs9sq]

Hi, does your grub.cfg file work with the newest grub2win software? I still can't fix it and when I choose 'Batocera' from the ist I got an erreur: unknown error and grub is coming back to whe main menu with WIndows. I suppose I made everything step by step (video+pdf+correction). The one thing different than yours is Disk 0 (with data), Disk 1 (with both OS) - I can't change the order.

[@michaelmichael-hs9sq]

I have absolutely no idea what's going on :) but when I boot the PC the GNU GRUB 2.06 has more or less 1920 resolution and it doesn't work. When I enter to the Boot Menu, then exit via esc-key from Boot Menu I got 1500 pixels, the same menu and Batocera works fine :) It's a brian fc*k :D :)

[@pleilleur]

@@michaelmichael-hs9sq Hey Michael, thanks for reporting that. I have not updated my grub2win since I made the video. This disk layout may requires 2 steps, you need configure the drive from Batocera System settings but that should not prevent starting Batocera. If the error comes before you see the Batocera boot tha's definitely a grub thing. Though I'm puzzled too with that resolution behavior, I haven't met that before. Do you use a skin for the boot menu ?

[@michaelmichael-hs9sq]

@@pleilleur nop, only text as in your manual and linux ;) i'll upload the video this evening how it looks like

[@michaelmichael-hs9sq]

I saw, that in your grub.cfg file the resolution is: 1536x864 so I suppose it's booting when I choose the Boot Menu manualy. The error: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKfYkqmQjJeGkKM After enter to Boot Menu: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5u1mZ1ugr1lldU I have, the newest grub2win file, rufus 3.20 portable, batocera 34. Lenovo v310 notebook, m2 126GB driver + 500GB hdd for the storage.

[@pleilleur]

@@michaelmichael-hs9sq Thanks for the details, I'll have a look in the week end.

[@spillsndebris]

Great video, so detailed, many thanks.

[@pleilleur]

Thanks a lot for your support, I'm working on some improvements, I hope to release the next video during summer.

[@gutimondra1]

Hi! when I try to boot into batocera, show a black screen and the only solution is restart the computer. Any solution?

[@pleilleur]

Hello, it looks like the Batocera bootloader can't be read, this is most likely related to the partition types (something I figured out while discussing with you guys), are you confortable running powershell commands ?

[@gutimondra1]

@@pleilleur I have this Núm Volumen Ltr Etiqueta Fs Tipo Tamaño Estado Info ----------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 D Juegos exFAT Partición 931 GB Correcto Volume 1 C NTFS Partición 232 GB Correcto Arranque Volume 2 E BATOCERA FAT32 Partición 5000 MB Correcto Volume 3 FAT32 Partición 100 MB Correcto Sistema Volume 4 NTFS Partición 512 MB Correcto Oculto the Batoceravolumn is in FAT32 that you said in the video Thanks!

[@pleilleur]

@@gutimondra1 OK, the partition format is good, the partition type may also be important. You can check that by running get-disk or get-partition. In my case, I can see the partition type with get-disk and I use GPT partitions. This is because I'm using recent hardware (less than a year) and 64 bit Windows 10. If your partition types are MBR or others, that may not work well with UEFI boot and this is not something I have investigated yet. In this case I would re install the Windows system and try to force GPT partitioning during the installation, this may not be possible with old hardware and requires some other actions.

[@YvungBebe]

@@pleilleur do you have a discord?

[@pleilleur]

@@YvungBebe Yes, try Pleilleur#8606

[@incognitech3593]

Thanks, there is a way to skip entirely grub2win on a pc bios that is capable to select os? I actually can choose what internal drive to boot (i have an extra internal 1tb drive) or usb stick, no need do disable secure boot (i have EFI bios). Wonder if i can do the same with two partitions on same drive, i mean the possibility to select win/bato from bios without grub2win. Thank u!

[@pleilleur]

Thanks for your message. Yes, you could skip that part entirely if you can activate a UEFI boot menu on your motherboard. That would have the same effect (in our case) as a grub2win install. I did that with some folk and it worked perfectly. If your MB doesn't allow you to start with a UEFI boot menu, you can hit F8 (or any other key depending on your computer) and reach the menu, that will just be a bit more restrictive. I don't think it is a problem to have it on the same drive, UEFI will scan all drives for EFI boot files. Now, regarding secure boot, have you already achieved a batocera boot with secure boot enabled ?

[@incognitech3593]

@@pleilleur Yes, i was already able to boot Batocera from Usb stick without need to disable secure boot, and also from the extra hard disk that i have, but i want to be able to start Batocera from a partition of c: drive (same drive where Win is stored) like your tutorial, and keep the 1tb only for storage (lile you did with yours 2tb drive). I will let you updated.

[@lynchpyn7805]

Merci beaucoup, very informative video :)

[@pleilleur]

Thanks a lot for your feedback.

[@explosionoffun]

Cant download the config file :(

[@pleilleur]

Thanks for reporting that, this was an old link, here is the link for the file : drive.google.com/file/d/1L5bf_DNFhYDFIieS8ktj41rbVfPRAD67/view?usp=sharing I also updated the description.

[@ΘεοδωροςΖωης-β7σ]

Very nice but how can make triple boot like Linux mint - windows 10 and batocera ? i have dual boot linux mint and windows 10 and i want to add batocera ...pleace help

[@pleilleur]

Good idea, do you know if your computer is configured (or can use) EFI boot mode ? I guess you have installed linux first and you're using Grub has boot menu ?

[@ΘεοδωροςΖωης-β7σ]

@@pleilleur no i have first windows installed and after linux and i make it with grub2win software so i can choose from many os triple or more

[@pleilleur]

@@ΘεοδωροςΖωης-β7σ Ok, then it is even easier, you need to skip the grub2win install from my video but the rest should be the same : create a partition for batocera core, install batocera on this partition and create a new entry in the grub.cfg config. As you already have a setup, I suggest that you don't overwrite the grub.cfg file, but rather use the custom method. At the next boot, you should have the new batocera entry selectable. If you don't have another physical drive for batcoera userdata (roms) I advise to create 2 partitions, the first one for the core, the second one for userdata (batocera automatically try to mount the partition that follows the core partition when listing existing partition in the system at boot time).

[@ΘεοδωροςΖωης-β7σ]

@@pleilleur yes thanks a lot

[@parviz1972]

Thanks a lot! I have Batocera installed on USB drive and wondering how the process changes if I don't want to install Batocera on my hard drive. Also in case we don't have Nvidia graphics, do we need to edit the code as you did?

[@pleilleur]

Hi PK72, Thanks fr your message. If you don't have Nvidi, don't uncomment the line, if you have intel or ATI graphics, you can uncomment the appropriate line (remove the '#' character in front of the line). I don't understand your first question, what do you want to do exactly ?

[@parviz1972]

@@pleilleurThanks for your reply! As far as I understood, you installed Batocera on the same hard drive as windows but I installed Batocera on a 256 GB USB flash drive. I use the flash drive both as Batocera OS and storage for the games. I have been trying to find a way to select either Batocera or Windows at start up without going to the bios every time.

[@kamalkarnati8294]

Please tell me how to apply this method for batocera 32( latest) version.....

[@pleilleur]

Hello Kamal, Thanks for your message. You can use this tutorial for v32 as well. Actually you can bypass all the Rufus part. Just go to the Batocera update repository at updates.batocera.org, select your system (x86_64 for me) and get the stable version. Uncompress the archive and copy the files at the root of the Batocera partition. This is much faster than doing the USB deployment. Let me know if it worked.

[@kamalkarnati8294]

@@pleilleur success. I managed to install batocera by your method. I looking forward to install linux mint as triple boot in my system. Any suggestions?

[@pleilleur]

@@kamalkarnati8294 Nice ! You need to create another partition obviously. If you install Linux Mint right away that will probably replace grub2win boot manager as default boot manager. But it should include a line to windows EFI boot. Once in Windows you can set back grub2win as default boot manager and add an entry for Linux Mint as we did for Batocera ( you need the path to Linux Mint EFI boot for that). Just a though, I never tried that.

[@yozodz6209]

Je vous expose mon problème. Partitions de 8go créer Batocera 39 dedans avec le nouveau scripte Batocera se boot correctement Tout fonctionne Mais, j'aimerai savoir comment mettre mon disque dans le Menu storage, parce que je ne veux pas utiliser de disque dur externe, j'ai qu'un seul disque dur ( Windows) avec ma partition de Batocera, mais je peux créer une autre Partion pour mes jeux "Ntfs" la partion elle peut faire 100go, mais sur Batocera ma partition n'est pas reconnue comme un disque dur. Quand je fais F1 on voit mon disque, mais dans le menu Storage Batocera il s'en fou. Je suis obligé d'acheter un disque dur pour mettre mes jeux ?

[@pleilleur]

Bonjour, merci pour votre message. C'est pas compliqué, si vous regardez le plan de partition vers 2:38, dans votre cas, vous n'avez qu'un disque C, donc il faut créer une autre partition après la partition Batocera (qu'on appelera Core). Pour créer cette nouvelle partition (qu'on appelera userdata) il faut d''abor créer la partition Core et ensuite, créer la partition userdata dans l'espace restant. Quand Batocera boot, si il n' a pas de disque spécifié dans le User Storage, il va essayer de monter la partition qu'il trouve juste derrière lui (dans la liste des partitions). C'est pour ça qu'il vaut mieux créer la Core d'abord. Dans votre cas le plus simple c'est de shrink de 110G, créer la partition Core a 10G en fat32 (j'arrondis, pour anticiper les prochaines versions !) et ensuite créer la partition userdata en NTFS dans l'espace qui reste, au premier boot Batocera devrait créer tous les dossiers, vous pouvez revenir dans Windows pour vérifier que c'est bien le cas, et remplir les roms ! C'est ce que j'ai sur une autre install.

[@yozodz6209]

Bonjour merci pour votre vidéo ! J'ai lus "ce n'est pas compliqué" j'étais heureux, je continue de lire, plus je lis, plus je suis pardu 😂 Je suis plusieurs TuTo en même temps et plusieurs m'embrouille, le TuTo le plus simple est le votre et celui du Wiki qu'est complémentaire. Si je récapitule une fois la partition de 8go de Batocera Créé, je crée une autre partition de mon Local "C" que je rename "Core" pourquoi ? 🥲 La partition Core fera donc 110go j'enlève 100go de CORE pour qu'il en reste 10 puis les 100 go restant je garde pour NTFS userdata. Un peu chiant le fait que je fasse un récapitulatif, mais je veux bien faire les choses. Tellement bien faire les choses que j'ai fini par mettre un disque dur externe, avec le disque externe ça me fait le problème inverse. Dans Storage je met mon disque tout le monde est content, mais une fois f1 mon disque n'est pas visible et je peux même pas mettre les bios de la ps2😂 Enfin bref mon deuxieme problème on l'oublie, je vais me concentrer sur ce vous m'aviez dit. Merci ! Corrigez si je me trompe

[@yozodz6209]

Après avoir créer tout ça 8go FAT32 BATOCERA puis 10go CORE FAT32 et Userdata 200go ( parce que j'ai pus) NTFS Rien ne se créer et dans storage rien ne s'affiche. Dans mon disque userdata je n'ai pas de dossier userdata ou Batocera Batocera n'a rien creer dans ces disque ( Core ) et ( userdata ) 😩

[@pleilleur]

@@yozodz6209 Vous avez compris l'essentiel, mais vous n'allez pas faire une partition que vous allez redécouper: 1) Vous retirez les 110 Go de windows (shrink) 2) Ces 110 Go ne sont rien à ce stade, ils ne sont pas utilisables, on va créer les 2 partitions là-dedans 3) Vous faites la partition Core en Fat32 a 10Go ou vous mettrez l'install Batocera (core c'est pour coeur, ou noyau, c'est un terme fréquemment utilisé pour désigner le coeur d'un système) 4) La vous aurez la partition Core pour Batocera qui est créée, il reste ensuite 100Go d'espace disque inutilisé (à droite de la partition) 5) Même opération en NTFS avec l'espace restant pour la partition userdata. Je peux pas faire plus simple, après il faudra peut être travailler votre maitrise du système de fichiers pour bien comprendre les étapes (pas que la mienne soit exceptionnelle !). Attention ducoup quand vous supprimez une partition, d'être sur de bien supprimer la bonne (déjà fait 😢) Dîtes moi si ça marche

[@pleilleur]

@@yozodz6209 Nos messages se sont croisés, ce n'était peut être pas clair mais avant de refaire la manip dont je parle, il faut supprimer la partition Batocera du Tuto et reprendre de l'espace sur Windows, s'il en reste. C'est un peu compliqué de faire ça via KZbin... Il faut bien sur que la partition Windows ait assez d'espace, et il peut aussi y avoir des contraintes a cause du fichier d'échange (désolé), la ça va devenir un peu compliqué et risqué, si vous n'avez jamais joué avec le partitionnement...

[@theklamps9305]

Great tutorial! Is there a way to just boot directly into batocera without having to select it from the boot menu every time?? I want my mini PC to function more like a console unless I need to go into the windows side to manage files and downloads

[@pleilleur]

Thank you for your feedback! Yes I believe it is possible, I don't have grub2win with me but from the video I would recommand you either : - Change the "default" value in the grub.conf file to the batocera entry, it should be 1 (see at 8:13, line 26 in the code editor default is set to 0 which is windows) - Change it from the UI by checking the box in front of Batocera (see at 9:11), that may alter the grub.conf if you choose the direct copy of grub.conf (not the custom code)

[@theklamps9305]

@@pleilleur thank you I will try this out! Another thing I wanted to ask, I tried something similar to this before and when I tried to copy anything into batocera (links to my HDD roms) it said there was no space on the drive, and when I looked, my user data was all used, even though I had over 100gb set aside for batocera on the drive partition... Is there something specific I need to do to enable user share space for batocera to access on my main hard drive.?

[@theklamps9305]

@@pleilleur I added you on discord, I've got some issues with the step using grub2win, would you mind helping please? Merci!

[@pleilleur]

@@theklamps9305 Ok let's move to discord. Regarding your drive issue, it's hard to tell without seeing partitions layout.

[@prjko]

Merci pour ton tuto je vais monter une mini machine (Asrock deskmini X300) sous Windows avec un Ryzen 7 5700G (donc pas de carte graphique dédiée) 16Go de ram et un disque M2 NVMe Gen 3. Par rapport à ce que j'ai lu dans ton post, sans matériel Nvidia je risque de ne pas pouvoir tirer parti de la puissance de ma config sous Batocera en dual boot ? Ça serait genant vu que je monte ce PC à 50% pour l'émulation jusqu'à la Gamecube 😅

[@pleilleur]

Salut Lucien, merci pour ton message. J'avais effectivement constaté des problèmes quand j'utilisais une machine avec uniquement du traitement par le CPU. En testant avec une machine avec une carte Nvidia l'émulation était meilleure. Par la suite j'ai vu qu'il y avait le support des drivers intel iris (j'uitilise un NUC www.generation-net.com/Ordinateur-de-Marque/Intel/fiche-3933692-NUC-Intel-NUC7i7BNH---Intel-Core-i7-7567U-3-50-GHz--BOXNUC7I7BNH.html ) et en activant le support de ces drivers, j'ai pu tester des jeux GC,PS2 et dreamcast sans souci, là ou il y avait des glitchs audio et parfois vidéo avant. Je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de tester avec de l'AMD mais il semble qu'il y ait des drivers dispo (forum.batocera.org/d/5827-enabling-amdgpu-driver), avec ça je serais surpris que tu n'arrives pas à jouer à la GC. Essaye de trouver d'autres confirmations d'utilisateurs d'AMD mais a mon avis tu es prêt pour refaire Mario Sunshine a 100% :)

[@Dailydoseofbacon]

Thank you for great tutorial! I am using a single HDD. I tried to create a third partition for userdata for ROMS. However, Batocera is only recognized internal storage. Would it possible to use third partition?

[@pleilleur]

Thanks for your message, yes it is possible but partition order is important to keep it easy. When looking at partitions in Windows Disk Management, Batocera core partition must be before the userdata partition and there shouldn't be any partition in between them. Actually, when you're doing this setup, the userdata partition is recognized as 'internal'. When searhing for a data partition, Batocera look for the first available partition right after the Batocera core partition, this is why partition order is important. According to your explanation, I believe it should work. What symptoms do you observe ? No folders created on your third partition ? Games disappear at next boot ? Thumb up to you for reaching this stage anyway ;)

[@Dailydoseofbacon]

@@pleilleur thank you for your response. Your video is very helpful! I am finally able to have dual boot with Win10, launching Batocera AND create userdata partition from one single drive! Also, thank you to @magodohardware6702 that posting the video about terminal partition.

[@pleilleur]

@@Dailydoseofbacon Well done ! I have not seen the video from magodohardware, could you tell me where can I see that ?

[@stephlej9859]

Bonjour, est ce que cela fonctionne avec win11 ? Le fichier de config sera t’il bon quand même ? Le ssd pour mes roms peut’il être en ext4 ou vaut’il mieux le mettre en ntfs ? J’ai lu que c’était mieux pour que batocera sous Linux puisse lire correctement ?

[@pleilleur]

Salut Stephlej, oui ça fonctionne avec Windows 11, d'autres personnes ont fait des installs comme ça. Tu peux formater la partition des roms en ext4. Effectivemment les permissions NTFS semblent poser problème pour certains système genre WINE (dixit Reddit, je n'ai jamais testé) Par contre, tu ne pourras pas y accéder simplement depuis windows. Il semble qu'il y ait des solutions pour lire du ext4 (diskinternals) mais ce n'est qu'en lecture je crois. C'est vrai que c'est un choix important, c'est pas une fois que tu auras rempli le disque qu'il faudra changer d'avis... De mon coté je n'ai jamais été dérangé par ça, j'utilise du NTFS sur les install et j'ai aussi un partage réseau, donc ext4 derrière mais via le protocole réseau SMB, et je n'utilise pas trop les sytèmes qui semblent galérer avec SMB (Cemu, et autres émulateurs relativement avancés), j'imagine qu'il évolueront par la suite. Voilà, j'espère que ça t'aidera, tiens moi au courant !

[@stephlej9859]

Merci , alors j’ai réussi à créer mon dualboot mais je galère car batocera ne veut pas booter ni du ssd ni sur clé usb , j’ai un message « bootable batocera.linux » puis ensuite l’écran reste noir 😢. Je suis sur un beelink ryzen7 5800h gpu Radeon 680m

[@pleilleur]

@@stephlej9859 J'ai vu que certains utilisateurs avaient du attendre plusieurs minutes lors du 1er boot, combien de temps as tu attendu sur l'écran noir ? Est ce que tu vois au moins une fois le logo Batocera ? Tu peux essayer d'isoler la clé USB au boot pour voir s'il n'y a pas un conflit entre les deux partitions au moment du boot. Dans le bios tu dois avoir une option boot device priority pour activer ou désactiver des périphériques, tu peux essayer en ne laissant que le boot sur USB (la clé).Si t uveux essayer de démarrer sur le ssd par contre tu devrais retirer la clé.

[@lucamerler4477]

hi thanks a lot i have made the dual boot after few try , so now i have one question where put the roms now?ha set my external drive and batocera read it correct, i dont know where i must put the roms, thank really

[@pleilleur]

Hi, thanks for your message, if you succeeded doing the same thing as in the video, back in windows you should have a "batocera" folder at the root of one of your drive. It really depends how many partition you have and your physical layout so I can't tell exactly which drive. If you have an external drive it will work more or less the same way as for my 1.8TB SDD drive: select it in the Batocera settings menu as the user data drive, then back in windows, your external drive should have the batocera folder at its root, and then within is the roms folder. You may need to boot again once in batocera after selecting your external drive, so that it can create all the batocera user data structure. Then you can boot to windows, keep me updated.

[@michaelw6918]

Hey, I’m getting an error when trying to boot into batocera, wondering if you can help me out?

[@pleilleur]

Sure, reach me out by email, we can schedule a Skype call or something and look at your issue.

[@michaelw6918]

I have sent you an email

[@pleilleur]

@@michaelw6918 Thanks a lot for the troubleshooting, our findings will allow me to enhance this guide. Conclusion is that this guide is only for EFI computers, for BIOS the process will probably a little less straight forward... To be covered in another video !

[@tanoryjakaperdana1419]

Hi thanks for this.. but can we flash the image directly to the partition? I dont have any free flashdrive

[@pleilleur]

Hi Tan, yes you can. I mentionned that in the video description (Update 2022-03-04) you can download batocera install archive and just unzip it at the root of your drive. So much faster !

[@dr.bo77]

nice but settings are not saving in batocera

[@pleilleur]

This probably means that Batocera is not using your userdata drive but rather a temporary space that will disappear when rebooting. If you're using a single drive, make sure the userdata partition is right after the core partition (from Disk Management, the core partition must be on the left of the user data partition with no space in between.If you use a seond drive for userdata, it is probably not selected in the Batocera settings

[@dr.bo77]

@@pleilleur big thx i will look into it

[@aquasplashgamer6625]

hello but whhy is fat32 important because in a thread in batocera forum someone said that NTFS is also good.BTW Great tutorial and hats off!

[@pleilleur]

Hello, thanks for your message ! FAT32 is the selected standard for EFI boot, this allows to keep it simple and have the same boot partition format whatever your OS is. I believe what the people were talking about in the forum was the data partition. The data partition can be formatted differently, as Batocera operating system includes drivers for multiple formats, it will be able to read various partition formats. In a nutshell, FAT32 is mandatory for what I call the Core partition, which contains the Batocera code, for the userdata partition, you have more flexibility on the format. On Windows for instance, the EFI boot partition is very small and only contains the initial boot material. It will then redirect to the windows core partition (C).

[@AndikaThe2000]

Please tell me if the Recalbox as an dual boot with Windows 11 works for this.

[@pleilleur]

Hello, I have never tried recalbox and I'm not using Windows 11, so I have no experience for your situation, sorry... Now, I believe Grub2win will work fine if you have recent hardware (less than 4/5 years) and I believe you can also do the same thing as I do in the video for partition creation. However I have no clue for tha actual installation of Recalbox, can't you find youtube tutorials for that ?

[@felborn4545]

I go to the boot manager, I select batocera AND IT ALWAYS BOOTS WINDOWS been faffing around with it for 4 hours till 4am and I can't fix it 😂 HELP

[@pleilleur]

Not sure what you've done so far, that sounds like the grub.cfg entry is wrong and always falls back to windows. could you copy/paste the batocera entry from grub.cfg here (all the lines from batocera section) ?

[@felborn4545]

@@pleilleur I had to make my own custom code on grub since I couldn't get yours to work and I also had to go back to legacy after that broke stuff more

[@felborn4545]

Got it working now

[@pleilleur]

@@felborn4545 Good for you ! Just to make sure I got it right, you're still using Legacy boot ? Can you tell me what hardware you're using (model number if possible) Thanks.

[@ToTBoO]

Also my batocera keeps flashing indefinitely

[@pleilleur]

Hey Carlos, I just had the same problem with a friend, he has an Asus tablet/laptop computer with I7 6500U, and once it has booted, it keeps blinking, exactly like you described. If I find a solution I'll let you know.

[@ToTBoO]

I found the solution. Batocera can only handle certain amount of usb peripherals. Try unplugging some

[@pleilleur]

@@ToTBoO Thanks for the info, I'll try that 👌

[@momenalshorman4663]

Its saying invalid signature

[@pleilleur]

Hi momem alshorman, sorry for the late reply, invlid signature is usually related to secured boot. Have you checked that it is disabled ?

[@momenalshorman4663]

@@pleilleur nvm i used another way, thanks for the replay

[@aristodemos527]

Thanks for the tutorial! Unfortunately i have a trouble when booting batocera from Grub2win, it stays blackscreen. But when i plugged the usb (with batocera inside) it boots well. I only have 1 disk 512 SSD NVMe, thus i make 10GB partition (E: BATOCERA) with fat32 format, and the other 195 GB partition (Batocera Data) with ext4 format. I've tried to delete the core partition for batocera and re-create it without quick format but still no luck. Do you have any solutions? Thanks!

[@pleilleur]

When you deleted and recreated the partition did you use quick formatting ? If yes, try to uncheck this option: I believe this solved a similar problem with another user, quick formatting doesn't erase existing data, and during critical operations like boot, this could cause problems as this process may read old unrelated data. With a long format, all exisitng data should be erased. Let me know if this works

[@aristodemos527]

@@pleilleur yes, i unchecked it every time i recreated the partition, but still no luck. Is there any steps i need to check when deleting the partition?

[@pleilleur]

@@aristodemos527 Sorry I misread your first comment about quick format... I can't think of something else to do when deleting the partition. Did you remove the USB key with the Batocera install when trying to launch from Grub2win ?

[@loloprune]

Salut, j'ai rencontré aussi des écrans noirs après le boot.. J'ai voulu essayé Clover en remplacement de Grub2Win, mais pas top.. Après, j'ai remarqué que dans le dossier "boot" il y avait un nouveau dossier dossier nommé "batocera" dans lequel il y a aussi un fichier "bootx34.efi". Peut-être en modifiant la cible du fichier « grub" […] set efibootmgr=/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi getpartition file $efibootmgr root if [ ! -z $reviewpause ] ; then […] En […] set efibootmgr=/EFI/BOOT/batocera/bootx64.efi […] À voir..

[@pleilleur]

@@loloprune C'est bien possible, il me semblait que quand il ne trouvait pas l'EFI il mettait un message et revenait sur le menu , et je n'ai pas de dossier batocera de mon côté: j'ai toujours la même install depuis le début, que j'ai mise à jour. Par contre si c'est comme ça sur les nouvelles installs depuis 34, alors oui il faudra changer le chemin, merci!

[@azkha4806]

Salut merci pour le tuto, les 3gb d'espace disque pour le système Batocera sont devenus très limites avec les maj qui sont de plus en plus grosses. Pour ma part impossible de mettre à jour depuis la v29, ça m'indique que je n'ai pas assez d'espace.

[@pleilleur]

Salut, merci pour ton retour, je vais ajouter ça dans la description, j'avais pas fait de maj depuis une install comme ça encore. Ducoup tu es obligé de détruire la partition et de la refaire, je pense mettre une partition de 7G.

[@yogiswara7536]

i dont have GTX 10XX. CAn i make dualboot with internal/integrated graphics?

[@pleilleur]

Yes you can. Nvidia is not actually required for this setup (sorry for the confusion), just skip the Nvidia drivers step. I included it because it is mandatory for running GameCube or ps2 games, but for older consoles that's no problem.

[@yogiswara7536]

@@pleilleur Thank you so much. Your video is very good, it will help me to build new emulator pc with athlon 3000g.

[@pleilleur]

@@yogiswara7536 I'm glad you find it useful, I wish you a lot of fun.

[@pleilleur]

@@yogiswara7536 Let me know how your setup goes once you'll have it ready. And thanks for your support.

[@jodicks]

Halo mr, my bios only support csm can i do this?

[@pleilleur]

Hello Johar, Thanks for your message, CSM is compatibility mode for legacy BIOS, which probably means your hardware baseline is UEFI, with support for legacy boot. It would be better if you can force the option to UEFI only, but that's worth trying, make sure you backup your data.

[@cedellehcuaved7160]

@pleilleur salut. Je suis bien embêté car de mon côté j'ai beau suivre le tuto, impossible de booter sur Batocera (et j'ai bien les fichiers Linux et Batocera sur la v33). Déjà il m'est impossible d'avoir le même écran de démarrage que toi (pourtant j'utilise ton fichier config). Dans les os pour le boot, windows n'apparaît pas, par contre Batocera oui mais sans aucun réglages de présents (je ne sais pas si je me fais bien comprendre lol). J'en refait un quand même en suivant la procédure mais rien ne boot dessus au démarrage

[@cedellehcuaved7160]

@pleilleur, le fichier est bien présent, j'arrive bien à redémarrer par grub, mon pc gère l'uefi, et j'ai aussi essayé en custom. Rien n'y fait. J'ai créer une partition sur mon disque c: de 8go et j'ai suivi ta procédure pour coller les fichiers dessus. Lors du boot, ça me dit qu'il ne trouve pas ce fameux fichier efi

[@pleilleur]

@@cedellehcuaved7160 OK, juste pour bien vérifier, sur la partition que tu as créée tu as bien le fichier au bon endroit (/EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi) et dans le message qui te dit qu'il ne trouve pas le fichier efi c'est bien le même ? Si tu peux me donner le message d'erreur exact ça peut peut être m'aiguiller. Et ducoup tu as bien une ligne pour Windows dans le menu grub au démarrage ?

[@pleilleur]

@@cedellehcuaved7160 N'hésite pas a revenir vers moi quand tu auras vérifier ou si tu as d'autres questions, n'étant pas avec toi je pose peut être des questions qui peuvent paraitre évidentes pour toi mais je préfère tout vérifier.

[@cedellehcuaved7160]

@@pleilleur alors oui j'ai bien la ligne lorsque j'arrive sur le écran de boot mais impossible de démarrer en choisissant Batocera. Par contre lorsque je repasse le boot de legacy en uefi, je boote bien sur le Batocera (et donc la partition qu il a été créée en suivant ton tuto). Du coup le problème vient très certainement à ce niveau

[@cedellehcuaved7160]

@@pleilleur Grub is setting Root to hd0,msdos2 The Root partition file is /EFI/BOOT/bootx64.efi GNU Grub ils now loading the Batocera EFI boot manager Erreur?: invalide signature. Appuyer sur une touche pour continuer ? Voilà ce que j'ai lorsque je sélectionne Batocera dans le menu boot de GNU Grub et en étant en Legacy

[@solidstate7788]

your a legend bro!! big respect to you

[@pleilleur]

Thanks a lot for your feedback !

[@nashcomp]

Sir, i have an old amd laptop that run win7, can it dual boot like this (win7+batocera) ?

[@pleilleur]

Hello, if it is quite old, it may not use UEFI so it might require another process, you should be able to find this information with your computer part number, give it to me if you're not sure i'll have a look.

[@nashcomp]

@@pleilleur its sony vaio y series with amd e350 sir

[@pleilleur]

@@nashcomp You motherboard seems to be this one : newdata.aaeon.com.tw/DOWNLOAD/2013/Manual/EMB-A50M%20Manual%202nd%20Ed.pdf I believe I have seen a UEFI entry in the boot menu so it should be possible to use that guide on your computer (never 100% sure at first try so make sure you have all your data saved somewhere else) Also make sure you have created a partition for the Batocera data if you only have one physical drive in this computer. Batocera needs to have an available partition right AFTER its core partition (check IncomingTruth comment on my video comments for more detrails)

[@nashcomp]

@@pleilleur okay thanks alot

[@pleilleur]

@@nashcomp you're welcome let me know how it goes.

[@jehu00]

Hi please, can you upload a video without UEFI. ... Correction 2 : This guide is done with a modern PC, with UEFI, I'm thinking about a futur guide for old hardware with similar setup Cuz after running Grub2win ... appear the red dialog box add or import your OS entries. Thank you

[@pleilleur]

Hello, thanks for your message. I'm working on this setup but it's still WIP. Can you tell me what kind of hardware you're running (I'm testing this on a 2008 Asus eeePC) ? I'll post the video asap when it is done, unfortunately this is not my only todo thing so I can't tell you when it will be ready, sorry ! If you have subscribed to my channel you should be notified or you can come back later.

[@jehu00]

@@pleilleur My PC has a CPU core 2 dou, 4gb with a Radeon Hd5450. I think it's a HP Compaq 8000 ultra slim, running a windows 7 64 bits. Thank you for your reply

[@pleilleur]

@@jehu00 Thanks for the details that's probably indeed MBR boot, and it's a bit more modern than mine (still 32 bits !).

[@jehu00]

@@pleilleur finally I did it! I found a solution, just add a entrie something like chain load disk, then select my batocera's disk(1) and that it's. I have to changed the grub2win version too.

[@pleilleur]

@@jehu00 Well done ! If it Batocera is stored on another disk and the disk has MBR that was the way to go (just googled after I saw your message).

[@murilogh]

Thank you a lot for the very useful and detailed guide! In this setup, it's possible to update the version of Batocera without issues?

[@pleilleur]

Hi, thank you for your support ! Update is not a problem as long as your partitions are big enough. In the video I advised for 3GB core partition, this is not enough, you should go for 8 GB because some users reported an error message when updating with small partition. I tried and it worked fine for me with 8 GB core partition.

[@soxmulder4334]

Salut. Merci pour cette vidéo. Pas facile de s'y retrouver sur le net. Petit problème de mon côté. Voici ma config : cpu I3 10100F + carte graphique gtx1060 o3g Lorsque je veux booter sur batocera l'écran reste noir et rien ne se passe. J'ai bien retiré le # pour activer nvidia mais ça ne change rien. Est-ce possible de faire fonctionner Batocera sans cpu avec processeur graphique ? J'ai un gros doute.

[@pleilleur]

Salut Sox Mulder, Merci pour ton message. j'ai vu plusieurs cas de figures pour ce problème, souvent c'est un problème de partitions: - Vérifies bien que tu as une partition disponible après ta partition batocera, dans le disk management il faut que tu aies une autre partition APRES ta partition Batcoera, peu importe son type fat32 ou ntfs, c'est la que Batocera va essayer d'installer son dossier userdata, s'il n'y a pas de partition après ta partition batocera ça risque de ne pas marcher (dans mon tuto le disque ssd_data est après la partition batocera). - parfois il faudra tenter deux reboot pour s'assurer d'un changement important au niveau des disques (création de partition, changement de la partition batocera) Dis moi si ça solutionne ton problème.

[@soxmulder4334]

@@pleilleur Merci beaucoup pour la réponse. J'ai prévu de stocker les roms sur un HDD à part. En effet je n'ai pas créé de partition après Batocera sur le même disque. Je vais tester ça.

[@pleilleur]

@@soxmulder4334 Si tu as un disque externe il faudra peut être gérer deux valeurs différentes pour le SHAREDEVICE dans batocera-boot.conf, que tu puisses démarrer si tu n'as pas ton disque quand même. Est ce que tu avais au moins le logo de batocera avant l'écran noir ?

[@soxmulder4334]

@@pleilleur mon disque prévu pour le stockage des roms est un HDD câblé en interne par Sata. Je n'ai pas prévu de le débrancher. Et non, je n'ai pas le logo Batocera. Je n'ai pas encore fais le test. Je te tiens au courant dès que j'ai testé ça.

[@soxmulder4334]

Bon, après moult essais infructueux j'ai enfin réussi ! Youpi !! Apparemment, c'est mon HDD qui doit servir pour stocker les roms qui posait problème. Il ne doit pas être partitionné avant d'installer Batocera. Il faut d'abord suivre le tuto jusqu'au premier boot sur Batocera. Ensuite il faut redémarrer sur Windows, créer sa partition sur le disque destiné aux roms et redémarrer sur batocera pour choisir le disque de stockage. Merci pour les conseils, c'est top de ta part. Je vais continuer mes bidouilles (projet arcade tout ça tout ça). Je reviendrai peut-être à la charge si j'ai des problèmes 😉 Merci encore 👍

[@loloprune]

Bonjour, je ne sais pas si j'ai fait quelque-chose qui ne va pas, mais ne boot plus après la MAJ vers la v33 une idée ?

[@pleilleur]

Bonjour, J'avais eu un retour sur une problème taille de partition lors des mises à jour, quelle est la taille de ta partition ? Je n'ai pas encore fait la maj vers la v33, je vais essayer. Pour bien comprendre, tu lances Batocera depuis le menu grub2win et ensuite ça reste noir ?

[@loloprune]

@@pleilleur merci pour ton retour rapide. ma partition est de 12o, j'ai voulu être large ^^ je lance Batocera depuis Grub2Win, mais reste bloqué car ne trouve pas de fichier dans 'boot/..' donc ne démarre pas. Le fichier 'bootx64.efi' est quant à lui bien présent.

[@pleilleur]

@@loloprune Oui 12 Go tu devrais être peinard je pense :) Je vais essayer de faire une mise a jour ce soir et je te tiens au courant.

[@loloprune]

@@pleilleur merci bien Edit 1: voici le message : Loading /boot/linux failed : No such file or directory Edit 2: En fait, le fichier 'linux' dans /boot a été remplacé par 'batocera' j'ai donc remplacé le nom dans les 2 fichiers syslinux.cfg de 'linux' en 'batocera'. Ca ne fonctionne pas pour autant mais ça boot quand-même mais reste figé sur un écran noir.

[@pleilleur]

@@loloprune OK, j'ai regardé, j'ai un fichier linux ET un fichier batocera aussi (je suis encore en 32 voire 31) je me demande si le fichier linux n'a pas sauté par accident (ou s'il a été vraiment remplacé en 33, ça je n'en sais rien pour l'instant), il faudrait essayer de chopper la 33 et de voir s'il y a toujours le fichier linux, auquel cas il faudrait que tu le remette dedans. Ca me parait bizarre que le fichier disparaisse mais ce n'est pas impossible. Je n'ai pas encore pu essayer pour le moment.

[@e99g]

Thanks bro I am gona try it 👍

[@pleilleur]

Thanks for your message, if you face issues, look at the description of the video, I tried to log all the issues we faced and solved.

[@e99g]

@@pleilleur I succesfully installed it on a 1tb ssd. I then cloned the share partition from a kinhank hdd (which has 110.000 games on it) but after the clone of the share partition to my ssd, I only have 83.000 games 😂

[@pleilleur]

@@e99g 83k... that's not a lot. Aren't you afraid of getting bored ? 😂 More seriously, that's interesting, are we talking about 83K roms displayed in Batcoera or 83K files on the drive ?

[@e99g]

@@pleilleur 83k games/roms

[@e99g]

@@pleilleur it‘s a kinhank 500gb hdd from aliexpress. I just made a dualboot with windows and batocera on a intel nuc + 1tb ssd. Then Installed Windows and Batocera with your dualboot. And last i cloned the share partition from the kinhank with the 110.000 games on it or as of now 83.000 games lol

[@laurentt2775]

Bonjour et merci pour ton travail, je suis bloqué, j'ai fait ce qu'il fallait un peu partout logiquement mais lorsque que je choisi batocera au démarrage, je dois appuyer sur une touche et la écran noir rien de rien....

[@pleilleur]

Bonjour, merci pour ton message, as-tu fais l'install avec le custom mode de grub2win ou en copiant mon fichier grub.cfg directement dans le dossier c:\grub2win ?

[@laurentt2775]

@@pleilleur oui c'est pour ça

[@laurentt2775]

J'ai fait les deux même

[@pleilleur]

@@laurentt2775 OK, tu as pris quelle version de Batocera? Sur la partition Batocera tu as bien un fichier E:\EFI\BOOT\bootx64.efi ? C'est peut être un autre lecteur pour toi. Et ta configuration de grub2win est en custom ou avec la copie de fichier pour le moment ?

[@laurentt2775]

@@pleilleur la v30, pour le fichier oui j'ai custom et j'ai même try avec le Chanel je sais plus pour faire le lien avec le fichier

[@tetiraelian]

Excellent Tuto!! Comment cela se passe t'il avec les montees de versions de batocera?

[@pleilleur]

Merci beaucoup ! Alors, pour les MAJ, on m'a dit que 3G c'est un peu léger pour la partition Core; il y a un message d'erreur au moment de télécharger les fichiers. Donc ça ne marche pas si la partition est trop petite. Il faut créer une partition Core de 8G. La taille de la partition pour les userdata peut aussi être bloquante, perso j'ai testé à 10G et ça passe, à part ça je n'ai vu aucune différence avec une install "normale", j'ai fait 2 mises a jour sur 2 systèmes dernièrement et aucun problème. Dans tous les cas même si la partition est trop petite ce n'est pas gênant, il suffit de copier les données sur une autre partition, la supprimer, la refaire et remettre les données dessus.

[@tetiraelian]

@@pleilleur Merci beaucoup pour l'astuce.

[@motasemalshowarah6647]

i have windows 8.1 how to add it in menu and thanks for the video

[@pleilleur]

Thanks for your comment. Are you talking about the Grub menu, the selection menu for windows or batocera ? I don't have much experience with Windows 8.1, but I believe the process should be similar. Have you tried it yet ? If yes, are you stuck somewhere ?

[@tiagotiolid5074]

Muito obrigado!!!!!! Deu certo!!!

[@pleilleur]

Obrigado pelo seu feedback ! Divirta-se ;)

[@arpeag]

Hi pleilleur, this method works with Windows 11?

[@pleilleur]

Hi Arnulfo, I'm still using Windows 10 so I can't tell 100% but I believe it should work. Windows 11 uses UEFI, after a quick check on the internet it seems possible to disable secure boot, grub2win seems to work on Windows 11 as well. I think it's worth trying. Make sure you get the Batocera core from the update.batocera.org as it is only a zipped file and not a disk image like standard download of the latest version (that way you can skip all the Rufus part and just unzip the content to the partition) I'm trying to do a dual boot using Windows BCedit so we can get rid of grub2win, if this works I'll release an update video. Keep me updated if you try it.

[@arpeag]

@@pleilleur I already did the configuration and everything is ok, but I have the same issue as I run batocera from a usb stick, it freeze at any time, I can navigate change some options but suddenly freezes, and have to reset my PC with power button, I think this method will help me wtih my problem.

[@pleilleur]

@@arpeag Few questions to try to understand the source of this problem : - What kind of hardware are we talking about ? - Does it freeze in the UI or in games ? - If in the UI, does it happen after you ran a game ? - If not, is the freeze coming after the same amount of time after boot (roughly) ? - If not have you identified some kind of pattern that leads to this freeze ?

[@arpeag]

@@pleilleur - I have a Mini PC Chuwi with Intel Core i5 @ 2.30Ghz and 16 GB in ram - It freeze in the UI, I can move between emulators and suddenly freeze, or I enter to menu to try to change some option and freeze, or if I press F1 to try to enter system freeze, several times try to wait 5 minutes to see if response and nothing I need to turn off physically.

[@Ellieharleyroyxxx]

great video easy to follow but when go to system settings storage install on a new disk you get the error code check the system/logs directory can you help my pc is a ryzen 7 3700x 64gig mem got 2x3tb hard drives one i want to install all my roms thank you

[@pleilleur]

Hi Geoff, can you confirm you have already followed the tutorial and you have a working dual boot with Windows and Batocera ? "Install on a new disk" is about installing the Batocera core, not the roms drive. For that purpose you should be able to select the 3TB drive from the system settings option called "Storage Device", like I did at the end of the video. Let me know if that works.

[@DEFarnes]

This is da bomb!

[@deanhogbin7798]

Yh think I'll stick to booting from flashdrive 🤔🤔🤔

[@pleilleur]

Why is that ? Too many steps vs just deploying the USB key ?

[@nodjaiprodash9738]

Hello thanks but please give us a tutorial for mbr users please i've not uefi but bios please Svp faites un tutoriel sur les pc à base de mbr j'ai hate de ta prochaine vidéo sur ce tutoriel je t'attends stp

[@pleilleur]

Hi there, it's in my todo list with many other things ! Stay tuned ;)

[@nodjaiprodash9738]

@@pleilleur thanks men good luck 🤞 i'm waiting your next tutorial ☺️

[@pebamberg]

I was able to make it work with BIOS by using configuration like this: search --set=root --label BATOCERA linux /boot/linux label=BATOCERA console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 initrd /boot/initrd.gz

[@nodjaiprodash9738]

@@pebamberg hello does it work with grub2win ? have just to copy past this text but how can i do to indicate the path of the system on an another local disk or folder to work ?

[@pebamberg]

@@nodjaiprodash9738 Yes, it works with grub2win. With this configuration Grub will automatically find a partition with label "BATOCERA" and use it as root.

[@robertflinch2447]

Grub2win isnt green

[@pleilleur]

Hello, is it red or yellow ? Can you post the error message ?

[@caiomatheus517]

PERFECT!

[@senjo5489]

salut merci pour ton tuto I tried with a partition fat32 and it works very well. I have a mini pc with a 500gb ssd, I would like to make a partition of 150 or 200gb for batocera (to not need external storage), but I have to make a partition in exfat or ntfs , do you know if it is possible to run batocera and how ? Encore merci pour le super tuto

[@pleilleur]

Hi Senjo, thanks for your message. You need to have 2 partitions in total it can't be a single partition (one for the core, or program, and one for the roms. and user data. It can be on the same drive. You need to make sure you cut like 200 GB from windows partition, then create a fat32 partition of 10G for the core, and another one with the remaining space (using ntfs) for userdata. That should work, all will be on the same drive.