AJIRI O
Do any Android-x86 users get this error:
I installed Android x86 6.0 r3 Marshmallow on a custom PC running UEFI with BIOS/Legacy/CSM support, and I created and installed everything into one bootable primary partition called dev/sda1 and parameters like ext4 formatting, grub install, grub2 install without format, and system read-write enabled, but when I reboot the system a black screen shows up with noting else but a blinking cursor at the top left corner of the screen?
I know for a fact that it is attempting to boot since it enters into the drive instead of throwing "this is not a bootable disk." The only possible explanation I can have for this is that either the grub I supposedly installed is missing, or its outdated.
Ubuntu and other distros install correctly, so I am thinking of porting its grub into android's /boot/ directory (which is hard since the OS prevents this).
Sadi Yumuşak
It seems Android-x86 cannot install grub bootloader with UEFI / Secure Boot feature enabled.
The only way out I've found - without disabling UEFI / Secure Boot feature - is:
1) installing it alongside (as a sub-directory under) a Linux distro with a working grub bootloader using via a RPM package at https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86.html or via a DEB package (using "alien" tool to convert), and
2) manually adding the following grub menu entry:
menuentry 'Android-x86' --class android-x86 {
linux /android-???/kernel androidboot.selinux=permissive
initrd /android-???/initrd.img
}
3) replacing the file "system.sfs" with the "unsquashed" directory named "system" to use the system area in read-write mode (either by extracting or by copying from a direct installation).
Sadi