Re: GRUB error 15 on EEE PC 900

[Chih-Wei Huang]

Could you install ubuntu and boot up successfully?
If yes, you can then install android-x86 without
install grub, and edit ubuntu's grub.conf
to add android-x86 boot item.
(see the advanced section of GetPage for
android-x86 boot options)

2012/6/13 Tandyman 100 <jbic...@gmail.com>:
> Using the Android 4.0 RC1 ISO, I used unetbootin to stick it on a flash
> drive so I can install it on my EEE PC 900. It ran brilliantly from the USB
> stick, so I decided to commit and install it. I selected the "install"
> option at the boot menu, and when I arrived at the "choose destination"
> screen I attempted to repartition the drive. Nope, some error about sector 0
> or something like that. No biggie, there was just one partition on the drive
> anyways. I continued, selected my drive, and formatted it as ext3. Install
> GRUB, non-writable FS, installation over. I rebooted, and I get a GRUB error
> 15.
>
> I've tried every filesystem possible, and I've even booted an Ubuntu
> live-USB and used GParted to erase the drive and create a new ext3
> partition, but nothing worked. install-grub failed from the USB as well,
> saying it couldn't find /boot/grub. (this could be attributed to the fact it
> was a 12.04 Ubuntu environment, which uses GRUB2 instead of legacy GRUB)
>
> Any ideas? So far I've found that Android is the best OS for my rubbish
> little netbook.


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[Pedro Mol]

Format your patition using an external tool, e.g. gparted on live Ubuntu.