Android x86 where is grub

Reason: wording. Originally Posted by respectablenoob. Yes android offers to install grub, I tried but it doesn't detect any linux distros and there is no update-grub. Thanks for your help! Last edited by dchmelik; at AM. Find More Posts by dchmelik. For Android-x86 9. Last edited by rtmistler; at PM. Install this? Refind first start, then the detected OS are proposed. My thoughts for now. Thread Tools. BB code is On. Smilies are On. All times are GMT The time now is PM.

Twitter: linuxquestions. Open Source Consulting Domain Registration. Search Blogs. I can run the Android Version i'm trying to install just fine off the USB drive i'm also using to install. I think it could be a bug with the installer, the same happens for me on Hyper-V with the android-x Ahh, the 4. Yeah, I had trouble with those too. Some would boot fine, then fail for no reason with a botched bootloader.

Others would corrupt GRUB during install, no output or anything. Keep trying. I grabbed the 5. You see, as it is the first release candidate for android 5. Hence the drive is empty!

Then startup the virtual machine and you can install it without getting stuck at grub installation. Hope this helped you guys! If you have any clarifications just reply. The fix is that you should manually create partitions: create a small m first primary partition for grub, and a 2nd extended partition for the rest, and install android on the 2nd, the grub will go automatically to the 1st Thank You.

Really wish Google themselves would officially work on getting Android on PC. I distrust and dislike where the Android-x86 Project is headed. The best way to install Android-x86 on any PC is to create a partition and format it to ext3 or ext4 partition.

Now this is not possible if you use any windows software to format partition into ext4. The best way is using Gparted. Now boot from USb drive and then format the newly created partition to ext4. I have found a post related to this on Android-x86 6. The installation on ext4 is differtent so follow the guide to understand how to do it. This way you can get rid of error 17 and also you get the entire partitioned disk space and use it to store files while using Android OS on PC.

Below are the screenshots of installtion using GParted!! Be careful to choose the correct one. By choosing "Auto Update" under the "Advanced options", the installer could update an older installation automatically. In this mode, the installer searches a partition named "Android-x86" or the first ext4 partition, and update the older installation in it automatically.

If no such a partition is found, the auto update mode will be cancelled. The item means to boot Android-x86 directly.

This is useful to check if your hardware is compatible with Android-x86 quickly. All data is stored in RAM tmpfs and will lose after poweroff. Enable the experimental Vulkan support. Not all GPUs support it. Disable GPU hardware acceleration.