Change what loads on startup/boot?

[manzaiya]

To clarify my self-replies and to help others trying to boot into emulationstation at startup, I didn't try creating a service with an emulation.conf in /etc/init/ as mentioned in start of thread; this is what I did:

1) xbian-config: turned off xbmc service auto start - from terminal services menu
2) sudo ./retropie_setup.sh
[3] SETUP : Under third option to configuring current install, Select [4] Start Emulation Station on boot

(Note, this will put the following entry:

Terminal

[ -n "${SSH_CONNECTION}" ] || emulationstation

entry in /etc/profile which will run after login. The script will also attempt 'sed /etc/inittab' to assist in enabling auto login, but my distribution did not have this file so this part fails leading to step 3)

3) Now emulationstation runs after login, but we want auto login as to not use any keyboard.

Terminal

sudo nano /etc/init/tty1.conf

#The very last line in this file should start with an exec command. Delete this line and replace it with the following:

exec /bin/login -f xbian < /dev/tty1 > /dev/tty1 2>&1

~ Now emulationstation will boot from startup. ~

+ Optional : launch xbmc from emulationstation
4) Edit emulationstation config to allow any sh to be run from /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/esconfig
~/.emulationstation/es_systems.cfg
In the "Input Config" Section -> change command line so to load any sh file selected
COMMAND=%ROM%
+ Can change the path if you'd like, for clarity I changed the Start.sh to InputConfig.sh and the description to "Advanced Menu Loader"
5) create xbmc_load.sh with xbian owner and executable permissions with the following

Terminal

#!/bin/bash
output=`ps aux|grep em\[u\]lationstation`
set -- $output
pid=$2

kill $pid
sleep 2
kill -9 $pid >/dev/null 2>&1
sleep 2

sudo service xbmc start

(Note: The above script will shutdown emulationstation before running the xbmc service so that emulationstation will not override the screen control leaving you with a running xbmc service instance you can't see.)

Fully navigate your game collection and launch xbmc all driven from your joystick gamepad. Hope this helps.