Working to get Android x86 on a ext4 partition. having problems, HELP

[John Wilson]

ok, i am going to mention everything i can. i searched and searched for a way to do this and cant find nothing that works.

ON an
HP Pavilion TouchSmart 14 Intel chipsets
Android X86 5.1.1

PC dont see a ext4 partition so i creat a;

4gb fat32 primary boot partition
and
20gb ext4 "tryed both primary and logical" non-boot

the grub and grub2that installs to the fat32 dont work,
I cant figure it out.


When i install Android-x86-5.1.1 it all goes fine
I select start Android "not reboot" and it starts, runs
and works 100% until i reboot.

when installing the drives read;

sda1 vfat "this is the fat32 boot"
sda2 ext4 "where android-x86 is installed"
sdb1 vfat "usb android-x86-5.1.1 instal"

I create partitions with gparted and do not format within
android-z86 install.


so overall i need to boot onto the fat32 with something that will
see and boot to the ext4 with android-x86 on it..

only if there is a way to get that last command at the end of install to start the android-x86

thanks for any help and if i figure out how to do it then i will post my results

[Chih-Wei Huang]

Did you say yes to the question
"Do you want to install EFI GRUB2?"
If yes, you should be able to see
/efi/boot/grub.cfg and related efi files
in your sda1 fat32 partition.

If not, try to re-install again.

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[John Wilson]

ok, i think i figured out the EFI Grub2.. i had to edit to where my "root drive/folder/" was.. but now it sticks on booting commands

[John Wilson]

Yes to EFI Grub2 Install..  when i go to load Android-x86 frim the EFI selection it freezes.
so i hit "E" to edit and its just a genaric code. no partitions stated "sda1, 2, 3" or "hda1, 2, 3" ect.
so i have a feeling its freezing because the code isnt right.. i dont know?

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 4:16:41 AM UTC-4, Chih-Wei Huang wrote:

[John Wilson]

OK, so i took the liberty to repartition everything and here is what i did,

sda 298gb
 |--- sda1 = fat32 partition for grub\grub2 efi
 |--- sda2 = Logical Partition --------------------
 |       |--- sda5 = ntfs for win7                  |
 |       |--- sda6 = ext3 for Ubuntu "Linux"   |
 |       |--- sda7 = ext4 for Android_x86      |
--------------------------------------------------------------

I had installed Windows 7 first, Android_x86 second and then Ubuntu third...

windows intallation is pretty straight forward, nothing to edit or mod here.
when i installed android system i let install grub/grub2 efi i didnt select format boot partition.
I then installed Ubuntu selected "sda6" for instal directory with "\" as root
and for the boot i selected "sda" not any of the partitions just the TOP MOST selection on the installation hard drive menu
after set up, i rebooted and have a GNU GRUB menu to select "Ubuntu" Memtest" and "Windows7" all these worked no problems.

i then went into Ubuntu to edit grub menu and add android_x86.. that worked for the most part but when it boots to the ANDROID logo
the logo is stretched and skewed and dont finish starting.. here is the line that is set to boot

Set root='(hd0,7)'
linux /android-2015-05-01/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 SRC=android-2015-05-01
initer /android-2015-05-01/initrd.img

any ideas how to straighten this one out? i can get android_x86 started from a "super grub2" thumb drive with no prob.
i just want to eliminate haveing to cary extra things and would like it if i can load everything off one menu..

thanks for any additional help.

[Ralf ranfyy]

Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2015 17:12:50 UTC+2 schrieb John Wilson:

OK, so i took the liberty to repartition everything and here is what i did,

sda 298gb
 |--- sda1 = fat32 partition for grub\grub2 efi
 |--- sda2 = Logical Partition --------------------
 |       |--- sda5 = ntfs for win7                  |
 |       |--- sda6 = ext3 for Ubuntu "Linux"   |
 |       |--- sda7 = ext4 for Android_x86      |
--------------------------------------------------------------

I had installed Windows 7 first, Android_x86 second and then Ubuntu third...

windows intallation is pretty straight forward, nothing to edit or mod here.
when i installed android system i let install grub/grub2 efi i didnt select format boot partition.
I then installed Ubuntu selected "sda6" for instal directory with "\" as root
and for the boot i selected "sda" not any of the partitions just the TOP MOST selection on the installation hard drive menu
after set up, i rebooted and have a GNU GRUB menu to select "Ubuntu" Memtest" and "Windows7" all these worked no problems.

i then went into Ubuntu to edit grub menu and add android_x86.. that worked for the most part but when it boots to the ANDROID logo
the logo is stretched and skewed and dont finish starting.. here is the line that is set to boot

Set root='(hd0,7)'
linux /android-2015-05-01/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 SRC=android-2015-05-01
initer /android-2015-05-01/initrd.img

Do you really have "initer" in there? Should be "initrd".

[John Wilson]

I guess i did have "initer" lol.. that was only wrong here.. on my system is correct...