How to boot the Android-x86 Live-CD when you have problems with your graphiccard

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Ikem Krueger

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Jan 21, 2011, 2:31:09 PM1/21/11
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When you start the Live-CD and see the menu with the different boot
options, hit the <tab> key to see the boot prompt.

Now you should see something like:

kernel initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0
androidboot_hardware=generic_x86 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode video=-16
quiet SRC= DATA= DPI=240

You can edit this line. When you're finished, hit <enter> to boot the system.

I suggest you to remove the word "quiet" to see the kernel messages.
Now the kernel should tell you what he does.

The parameter "nomodeset" disables "the kernel mode setting" (tells
the kernel to not set the graphic resolution, let X do that instead).

The parameter "xforcevesa" enforces to use the VESA driver for X.

I would play with both parameters:

* Booting with parameter "nomodeset"
* Booting with parameter "xforcevesa"
* Booting with parameter "nomodeset xforcevesa"

Yi Sun

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Jan 21, 2011, 2:37:28 PM1/21/11
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Thx,
I have added this to
https://sites.google.com/a/android-x86.org/web/documents/how-to-boot-the-android-x86-live-cd-when-you-have-problems-with-your-graphiccard

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Ikem Krueger

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Jan 27, 2011, 1:00:11 PM1/27/11
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Hi,

Where can I modify these parameters at compile time and before
generating the iso file ?

Thx

Ikem Krueger

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Jan 27, 2011, 6:46:26 PM1/27/11
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> 2011/1/27 Android-x86 <arob...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,

> Where can I modify these parameters at compile time and before
> generating the iso file ?

> Thx

I don't know were it is located in your build environment, but
these settings are later on the iso in "isolinux/isolinux.cfg".

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Ikem Krueger

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> 2011/1/27 Android-x86 <arob...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,

> Where can I modify these parameters at compile time and before
> generating the iso file ?

> Thx

I don't know were it is located in your build environment, but


these settings are later on the iso in "isolinux/isolinux.cfg".

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