


Once done, plug in the drive and wait for it to mount. So, start up your Pi with the USB drive disconnected and wait till it boots. Then we can just use that location as our “forced” one. To work out where we want the drive to mount, I found it easiest to just get the Pi to mount it itself to see where it put it by default. We can edit this to include our USB drive and make sure it is mounted where we want it to be on every boot. The fstab (/etc/fstab) (or file systems table) file is a system configuration file that lists all available disks and disk partitions and indicates how they are to be initialised or otherwise integrated into the overall system’s file system. So, we need to get the drive to automatically mount when the Pi starts up. So, media is unavailable and, if you do a clean through XBMC (like I did ten minutes ago), it’ll wipe all media info from the database. Sometimes, when I boot up the Pi, it doesn’t mount the external drive. I’m using an external USB drive to store media.
Retropie startx command not found Pc#
I’m using the excellent Raspbmc distribution to turn the Pi into a mini media centre PC using XBMC. I’m still getting the issue with the latest release so thought I’d best document the steps for when I inevitably have to do this again in another month. I spent a while figuring this out about a month ago with a Linux expert colleague (hi, Caz!) but didn’t write any of it down because it was going to be “fixed in the next release of Raspbmc”.
