does android 4.4-r3 supports ext4?

[Gary Naj]

Today i tried to migrate to ext 4 with clean hard drive the installation succesful but I ended up in error 15 then on the second time, I were stucked in grub installation, I tried to run it live and it had some minor glitches at the start like flashing but it did run though. I noticed there is a 3.84 used space even I delete and reformat the partition. I changed it to ntfs it dropped down to 70MB but when I revert to ext3\ ext4 the used rosed up again to 3.84 GB, I don't know if these are bad blocks, I admit my disk is pre-failing upon health check. I installed it in ext3 format again and it did install smoothly.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2015年12月26日 上午10:23於 "Gary Naj" <gg.ga...@gmail.com>寫道：
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> Today i tried to migrate to ext 4 with clean hard drive the installation succesful but I ended up in error 15 then on the second time, I were stucked in grub installation, I tried to run it live and it had some minor glitches at the start like flashing but it did run though. I noticed there is a 3.84 used space even I delete and reformat the partition. I changed it to ntfs it dropped down to 70MB but when I revert to ext3\ ext4 the used rosed up again to 3.84 GB, I don't know if these are bad blocks, I admit my disk is pre-failing upon health check. I installed it in ext3 format again and it did install smoothly.

The installer of 4.4-r3 (and all prior releases)
does not support ext4. That means,
you cannot create and format an ext4 partition
via the installer, nor install the bootloader to
an ext4 partition.

But 4.4-r3 and all prior releases can be installed
to a pre-created ext4 partition and runs well.
So you can use (live) ubuntu or similar to create
the ext4 partition, or just use an existing ext4 partition.

Since 5.1-rc1 the installer does support ext4.

[Gary Naj]

I pre-created my ext 4 thru g-parted before I ran android-4.4-r3 installer. I read your other post regarding this:

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2015-09-03 9:18 GMT+08:00 Michele Anastasi <mikel...@gmail.com>:
> I want to install Android x86 Kitkat Rc3 on my notebook, but I've a
> question: can I install it on ext4 file system partition?

First, there is no rc3 release.
Should be 4.4-r3 -- the release 3,
not release candidate 3.

The 4.4-r3 doesn't fully support ext4 installation.
It can't format an ext4 partition or
install grub to ext4 partition.
But the installer can install it to a pre-formatted
ext4 partition and you can install a bootloader
that supports ext4 manually.

So the easiest way to do so is just install
a normal linux distro (ubuntu/fedora/...) first,
then install android-x86 to the same ext4 partition
as the linux distro and create a custom.cfg
(supports it uses grub2)
to add android-x86 boot entry.
Search android-x86 list to see how to add it.


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org
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Do you mean I install first ubuntu then override it after? Grub will not be wipe right? BTW I read that you dropped all the development for Android-5.x-rx. Maybe I'll try marshmallow