FatDog64 not reading savefile on UEFI/Legacy eMMc drive

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mzee1934
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FatDog64 not reading savefile on UEFI/Legacy eMMc drive

#1 Post by mzee1934 »

I am trying to use FatDog64 710 on a HP Stream EFI with Legacy support, using 'LICK' to manage it.
* Runs fine
* Saves savefile
* loads savefile
* does not execute savefile (ignores it)
* WILLl read savefile from a USB stick
* will NOT read savefile from SD Card

LICK is installed in Windows 10 Pro
:?:

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#2 Post by don570 »

* will NOT read savefile from SD Card
This doesn't surprise me. BarryK has found that some SD card readers that
laptops use don't allow booting. Probably bad chip design. The kernel doesn't recognize the chip during booting.
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FatDog64 not reading savefile on UEFI/Legacy eMMc drive

#3 Post by mzee1934 »

I managed to install FatDog64 720 on the hard drive. Booted up fine with EFI, but still would only read the savefile if it was on a USB stick. Didn't like 720, you can't disable the touchpad.

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#4 Post by don570 »

I managed to install FatDog64 720 on the hard drive.
Good! It should work better.
you can't disable the touchpad.
Look somewhere in /etc folder or /etc/X11/ folder
or /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
The loading of drivers is controlled there.


A trick I am currently doing in fatdogarm is
making a save file with the default name

Then I put in cmdline.txt ---> savefile=direct:local

The operating system looks for the save file automatically when booting,
so this is nice when using the raspberry pi as headless machine.

...but note that save file must be using the default name.
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Uninstalling LICK from windows 10Pro

#5 Post by mzee1934 »

I was using LICK to boot FatDog64 and it disabled Hibernation & Fast Boot.
I have now uninstalled LICK, but they are still disabled.

Anyone know how to re-enable them?

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#6 Post by drunkjedi »

It's in the settings of Windows.
Just search the words in that cortana(or whatever that search assistant is called).
I don't use Windows much.
But the hibernation and fast boot has to be disabled in Windows if you want the ntfs partition to be read/write from another OS.
Windows when hibernation and fastboot is enabled, doesn't close that filesystem in regular way on shutdown.
So most linux systems only mount that filesystem as read only.
If you force read/write, then after booting back to Windows you will find your time wasted in scanning the drive.

That's why disable the hibernation and fastboot if you want to duel boot.

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Not reading savefile

#7 Post by mzee1934 »

Cortana does not work in New Zealand.
I have uninstalled LICK duel boot, and would like Hibernate back again. It is still AWOL!

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#8 Post by drunkjedi »

A simple Google search gave me following link.
https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pr ... rtup-mode/
At end of that page, it shows how to enable or disable Fastboot and Hibernation and why would you want to do that.

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Restoring hibernation

#9 Post by mzee1934 »

To restore Hibernation & fast boot settings that were removed from Windows by Lick, do the following:-

Right click on windows key
Open the Terminal console as administrator

powercfg /hibernate on

enter

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