5th partition (SYSTEM) is used by OpenELEC boot process. Let’s start examining extended partitions.
There are so many discussions under several forums moving system from SD card to USB increases performance and stability. If you are using 16gb or higher SD card, you may skip these steps however recommended if you wish to move your raspbian(retropie) system to USB stick. Third one is SETTINGS partition again we will not touch this partition used for settings of NOOBS. Second partition is extended and we will do some changes extended partition under this partition. Please note, my computer recognize SD card as /dev/sde your case might be different /dev/sdX or /dev/mmcblk0 I’ll proceed with partionId’s instead of /dev/sde1 or /dev/sdX1 or /dev/mmcblk0p1 So, first partition is primary RECOVERY and required by NOOBS, we will not touch or edit this partition. Open Gparted and you’ll see so many partitions created in your SD card. If you are on Raspbian type sudo shutdown -h now Once powered off, unplug power cord, than SD card from your Pi and plug to your computer.
Default username and password for Raspbian is : Username : pi Password : raspberry Now shutdown your pi if you are on OpenELEC select poweroff button at left-bottom (next to star icon). You may exit this menu with Finish button can be switched with TAB keys. It can be run anytime from terminal with sudo raspi-config command. When you first boot with Raspbian, it will popup a blue screen called raspi-config. Once system installed, you’ll recieve 2 OSes at boot menu.
Select checkboxes next to Raspbian and OpenELEC rows and click Install button at the top. You’ll recieve a menu once everything went OK. plug your SD card to Raspberry and be patient while it’s creating and resizing FAT partions. DO NOT DELETE data_partion, OpenELEC, Raspbian folders. Once copy finished, you may wish to delete unnecessary OSes from SD card like Arch, Pidora, RaspBMC, RISC_OS located under os folder.
Open downloaded NOOBS zip file and copy contents to SD Card. Once Card is formatted, now it’s ready for copying NOOBs on. Therefore your screen might be different depending on your SD Card size. FAT16 aka FAT filesystems are supported only up to 4gb. Optionally you may give Label as NOOBS but this will be lost after installing system. Select File System as fat16 and click OK. Now you’ll see an unallocated partion, again right click that row select New. (If you recieve an error, check your SD Card protection switch, make sure it’s not set to read-only). You will recieve a popup Operation Succesfull. Use checkbox or Edit/Apply all operations for deleting partions from SD Card.
First unmount with right click, than click same row and right click to select delete. Refer to I’ve used Gparted for this step, insert your SD Card and open Gparted You should be very carefull, should select exact SD card device from right top menu, if you have a laptop it will show as /dev/mmcblck0 otherwise will show as /dev/sdX. Prerequisites : 1- Class10 4gb or higher SD Card 2- USB Pendrive 16GB or higher (depends on SD card, if you have 16gb or higher SD Card you may skip obtaining USB stick, however recommended splitting system into to different medias) 3- Linux O/S (If you are using Windows, you may use Ubuntu Live CD, required for Disk Management application Gparted & cloning disk/partion with dd command) 4- Latest Noobs version can be downloaded from Setup : 1- Format and Install your SD Card with NOOBS.
You should know which disk/media/sd/usb you are dealing with. Have to be very carefull specially using Gparted & dd commands. Please note, i’m not responsible for any data loss over your drives.
(hopefully we can get it later versions as it’s highly voted for a request feature) As I don’t want to use any keyboard&mouse but want to use only TV remote for XBMC and a gamepad for Retro Gaming, this project born. On the other hand, Noobs is easy to install and able to boot again dual/triple or more system, but you have to connect a keyboard&mouse as it’s not supporting during boot selection. That means you are able to select which system to boot with your TV Remote, however after extensive testing i’ve found Berryboot is quite slow due using it’s own filesystem format. For example Berryboot is able to dual boot with CEC enabled TV’s. However both has advantages and disadvantages against each other. There are a few alternates for doing such a system like Noobs and BerryBoot. I was searching for a device that can handle both Retro Gaming and Entertainment System (XBMC) systems together.