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Csmcdonald152 days ago

I just received my El Cheapo from K-Retro, if I boot off of the Benn Venn boot.bin, it loads and shows the firmware as .08 - if I copy the boot.bin from the v20240409-a.zip file it will not boot and just says no boot file.   

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Atari Lynx Vault152 days ago

What size is your SD card and is it formatted as FAT32? It might be worth re-formatting and copying it after that.

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Csmcdonald151 days ago

8gb, fat32 just formatted it before copying the files.  

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Atari Lynx Vault151 days ago

How odd. I’ve just downloaded the menu again and put it on my SD card (16Gb in this case but 8Gb is what I recommend and sell in our shop), and it loads up no problems. Do you have the CONFIG.BIN file on the card as well? If that’s there, the only thing I can think of is that the SD card is not compatible. What brand is the card?

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Csmcdonald151 days ago

Sandisk, i also tried with a 16gb PNY card originally.

Very odd, the config.bin is on the card, it works with the OG menu fine.   It’s a Lynx 2 with the Benn Venn LCD if that makes a difference….

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Atari Lynx Vault149 days ago

Shouldn’t make any difference, I use mine with a BennVenn screen too. Would you be able to email some photos or a video of what’s going on so I can see it? Email is support@k-retro.com

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Csmcdonald148 days ago

Sure, will do when I’m done with work.

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Csmcdonald148 days ago

Ok, this is odd - I had originally copied this from my Windows machine to the SD card, I just did it from my Mac with the exact same file and it's now working...  No idea why, I didn't reformat the card or anything.   Thanks so much for the quick responses, I appreciate iot.

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Atari Lynx Vault148 days ago

Ah it could be the case sensitivity with the file system, I’ve seen issues where the file was called BOOT.bin vs BOOT.BIN. Glad it’s working now!

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Csmcdonald147 days ago

Yeah, that might be, I swear I checked that but definitely plausible.

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prosonic69 days ago

i had this issue as well the fix for me from windows was to rename the BOOT.BIN to BOOT without the file extension then rename it back to BOOT.bin

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