Asus Eee PC 1005 HA hangs in "Detecting Android-x86..."

[Johnye Bravo]

Hi. I'm trying to use Android-x86 on an Asus Eee PC 1005HA but it hangs on "Detecting Android-x86...", or "could not find a valid v7" on debug mode.

Hardware:
- Asus Eee PC 1005HA with 2GB RAM
- SSD Samsumg Thin Caseless 256GB FDE MLC uSATA 1.8" from a broken DELL
- 1.8" to 2.5" adapter
- Kingston 32GB USB flash drive

Software (on flash drive):
- RMPrepUSB with grub4dos-0.4.5c-2015-03-04.7z or grub4dos-0.4.6a-2015-03-18.7z
- android-x86-4.4-r2.iso and android-x86-4.0-r1-eeepc.iso

Lines used in flash drive's menu.lst:

title Android-x86 4.0-r1 live and installation ISO for ASUS Eee PC
map /ISO/android-x86-4.0-r1-eeepc.iso (0xff) || map --mem /ISO/android-x86-4.0-r1-eeepc.iso (0xff)
map --hook
root (0xff) || rootnoverify (0xff)
chainloader (0xff)

I'm inclined to believe the problem relies in the commands used in menu.lst. Unfortunately I don't have an external CD drive to install from as that seems to have solved the problem to some people with similar error.

[Mauro Rossi]

Hi,

I have the same problem when using multisystem to create USB boot drive.
You can avoid the problem by using unetbootin or burning the ISO on cd-rw.

Mauro

[Johnye Bravo]

I was wishing I could solve it by using the same pen I use with ISOs from Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8.x, Ubuntu, Hirens, etc. I don't remember the last time I burned a CD/DVD, so I'll see if I can find another flash drive laying around to use unetbootin, but I haven't give up on running it from RMPrepUSB + Grub4dos. I'll report back as soon as I can.

[Johnye Bravo]

Ok, found a non-working 8GB flash drive, played around with the soldering iron until I made it work (yay!), tried unetbootin with android-x86-4.0-r1-eeepc.iso and android-x86-4.4-r2.iso, both worked in Live boot. Didn't test any special functions like sound, bluetooth, wireless, etc, I'll leave that to later. Still trying to make it boot from the other flash drive, though :D