Adding to GRUB2

[sukuma...@gmail.com]

Is it possible to add it to a a second partition on my HDD and have it as an entry in GRUB2 boot menu?

[segi...@gmail.com]

It's possible to install as a subdirectory of your Linux install and add to GRUB2.

Make directories /android and /android/data

Copy initrd.img, kernel, ramdisk.img, and system.img to /android

Create GRUB2 entry using command-line from Remix OS's bootloader config (isolinux.cfg, open in vim)
E.g.:

linux /android/kernel ...
initrd /android/initrd.img

Make sure that SRC= kernel command-line value is set to SRC=/android or else you will not get past "Detecting Android-x86..."

Also, same steps work for Android-x86.

[ilpo...@gmail.com]

I  installed remix   on a partition --- Grub2 as always doesn't see android....trying to add at the menu but no chance....

[segi...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 12, 2016 at 1:16:26 PM UTC-6, ilpo...@gmail.com wrote:

I  installed remix   on a partition --- Grub2 as always doesn't see android....trying to add at the menu but no chance....

Follow my instructions above. You'll also need to know how GRUB 2 config scripts work, etc.

Here's a template (you need to add your own values) for you to use as /etc/grub.d/40_custom

http://paste.dott.co.in/#29640cd96757b9243cc537031714a8abttTY1Isr

You'll need to replace "$grubroot" in the template with the appropriate partition, e.g. "(hd2,gpt1)" and replace "$voluuid" with the UUID of the appropriate partition. (run the "blkid" command as root under your desktop Linux install) 

[Sukumar Patel]

Can I specify a folder to act as /data? or it has to be a img?

[Matheus Silagi]

This is almost what i wanted, what if my Android is installed on a second partition (like outside linux, on sda2 for example), what would i need to change?
Im kinda new to GRUB

[Thisara Kasun]

Then you need to specify in which partition remix is installed.

Open /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add something like below. you need to replace "hd0,msdos1" with the relevant partition.you can find it yourself by typing c at grub to enter commandline and then type ls to list all devices and partitions. note that you should replace 'android-2016-01-12'  with the folder name you installed the os.

menuentry "Remix Os"{

set root=(hd0,msdos1)

linux /android-2016-01-12/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive SRC=/android-2016-01-12

initrd /android-2016-01-12/initrd.img

}

[Matheus Silagi]

Thanks a lot but it didnt work, update-grub is still not detecting the entry.

[Jon West]

I used the folder method on my setup. Booting and running just fine on my SP3 :)

menuentry 'RemixOS-x86_64' --class android-x86 {

search --file --no-floppy --set=root /AndroidOS/system.img

linux /AndroidOS/kernel root=/dev/sdb1 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive DPI=220 quiet DATA=/AndroidOS

initrd /AndroidOS/initrd.img

}

[Thisara Kasun]

This worked for me. update-grub shows nothing different,but an entry was added to the grub menu. how did you install it,from a USB? i didn't need a USB too. simply extracted the iso to a folder in my home directory in linux and added a entry to grub to access the install mode. if you follwed every single step well,i can verfy that it will work like a charm.

[Sukumar Patel]

Dis you create /Android OS under / or under your home folder?

[Matheus Silagi]

Fixed, i did like the script above and it worked.
Now only if i could get more than 2GB of data. That would be amazing

[Sukumar Patel]

I added the below entry and it will not work. What am I doing wrong.

1. Created a folder RemixOs in my home folder and extracted the ISO into it.
$ pwd
/home/sukumar/RemixOs

$ df -h .
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 389G 203G 167G 55% /home

2. Created a folder data under RemixOs
3. Edited 40-custom as below

menuentry 'RemixOS-x86_64' --class android-x86 {
search --file --no-floppy --set=root /home/sukumar/RemixOs/system.img
linux /home/sukumar/RemixOs/kernel root=/dev/sda5 androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive DPI=220 quiet DATA=/home/sukumar/RemixOs/data
initrd /home/sukumar/RemixOs/initrd.img
}

4. Ran sudo grub update

I can see the menu entry, but selecting it reboots the PC.

Please suggest what's incorrect

[Sukumar Patel]

I also tried adding the partition uuid of /dev/sda5 to the root flag and it still didn't work.

[vishal...@gmail.com]

This worked like charm, thanks! (:

[Thisara Kasun]

for the installation grub entry should be as follows,

linux /home/thisara/remix/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 SRC=/home/thisara/remix androidboot.hardware=remix_x86_64 androidboot.selinux=permissive INSTALL=1 DEBUG=

And after the installation change it to the previous lines i said to boot to the OS..

[Prafull Kumar]

see this post for installation in HDD

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/remix-os-for-pc/bvYa1PWQHP8