Re: Surface Pro?

dscm

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Feb 22, 2013, 5:46:55 PM2/22/13

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LOL....that's a good one....

think someone here priced an asus motherboard (z77) / intel i5
3.4GHZ / 4GB memory / power supply and
came in at $450....add the cost of Win8 bought previously @ $14.99 and
total cost is:

our build = $465 vs Surface Pro at what about $899.00 (on wow we
get a touch screen with that)

but kidding aside it would be good to know if the android-ia builds
would run on it...

On Feb 22, 1:27 pm, Joe Spencer <jlipt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Has anyone tried running Android-x86 on the Surface Pro?

Ron M

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Feb 23, 2013, 7:16:54 AM2/23/13

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Ship me the board and I will reply this with a "yes" ;-)

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Joe Spencer

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Mar 9, 2013, 11:28:42 AM3/9/13

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Someone has succeeded.. (See YouTube video). It seems like it involves using the Ubuntu version of GRUB.

Perhaps we should ask them for a .img file to be shared with us..

But the uploader does state that drivers e.g. WiFi, Bluetooth don't work.

Stefan Matthäus

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Apr 1, 2013, 3:13:03 PM4/1/13

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The WeTab /ExoPc tablet (Pegatron Lucid) is also having an UEFI Bios but it's booting just fine. But maybe it starts in BIOS compatibility mode.

Am 12.03.2013 16:51 schrieb "Tyler Swindell" <electromag...@gmail.com>:

I tried fooling around with Grub some more. I was able to get the installer to load by adding a install flag to the boot entry and copying the installer image over to the android folder. But the installer does not support editing GPT partitions.

Android x86 could get somewhere on the Surface Pro if it was made to also work on EFI systems. It isn't board specific at this point. I believe getting WiFi to work won't be hard since there is a driver for Ubuntu. We need to get support for booting on EFI systems and we need to be able to install to a GPT system. Until then its just me desperately trying to make this work and I probably won't be able to make a guide or installer because it will be too complex without it being implemented correctly.

It wouldn't be too hard to add EFI and GPT support to the installer right now, would it?

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Joe Spencer

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May 15, 2013, 5:17:22 AM5/15/13

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The Android-IA fork of this project supports EFI installs out of the box. Could you try it out?

On Tuesday, 12 March 2013 08:07:30 UTC, Tyler Swindell wrote:

I tried fooling around with Grub some more. I was able to get the installer to load by adding a install flag to the boot entry and copying the installer image over to the android folder. But the installer does not support editing GPT partitions.

Android x86 could get somewhere on the Surface Pro if it was made to also work on EFI systems. It isn't board specific at this point. I believe getting WiFi to work won't be hard since there is a driver for Ubuntu. We need to get support for booting on EFI systems and we need to be able to install to a GPT system. Until then its just me desperately trying to make this work and I probably won't be able to make a guide or installer because it will be too complex without it being implemented correctly.

It wouldn't be too hard to add EFI and GPT support to the installer right now, would it?

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