Hello,
I am looking at an ARM device that comes by default with Android.
Some people have found ways to install TWRP on it.
Am I right that TWRP is somewhat like a bios system equivalent?
Would it be able to boot or flash a non mobile distro such as Debian or Ubuntu?
Can TWRP boot from USB sticks or SD cards?
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Hi guys, I am trying to get the net install Ubuntu onto my sbk2 device. I'm having trouble finding a program to do this on windows. I would really not want to have to setup a dual boot linux / windows on my desktop instead saving that as a last alternative..... Any help would be much appreciated.
You could install linux to a usb stick and boot from there. Insert your 4GB+ usb stick and run the live cd/usb. You should have an option to install to the usb and be sure to install grub tto the usb stick, not your primary hard drive.
My recommendation would be to skip the windows dual boot and just install linux!
I can't install Linux in my desktop....
So maybe I can;t build recovery.
then...
isn;t there any solutions to port the recovery in Windows?
I tried to install android 7.1 86x firstly for BIOS(legacy) mode because i like to keep the second OS hidden then I can boot directly to Windows 8.1 on EFI, then I selected to install grub however my stock bootloader was still starting and nothing of grub and therefore I cannot boot into android. Then I decided to install for EFI because I was a whole day trying to work that out and couldn't find any answer on Internet, however seems like the stock bootloader starts instead of grub after I restart the pc.
Extra information:
My pc has an E1-2000 AMD processor, it is 64 bits (and yes, i downloaded the right iso file).
Windows boots from EFI, and I had Kali Linux previously installed with grub and worked fine.After I removed kali I also removed grub with "bootrec /fixmbr" and "/fixboot" on command prompt.
Windows is working fine.
Try downloading the easyUEFI tool (check google) and on windows set a partition for Grub + setting it as the default over MBR
LilAnt530 said:
Try downloading the easyUEFI tool (check google) and on windows set a partition for Grub + setting it as the default over MBR
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What if I don't have windows there anymore? Is there a similar solution, inside a command line maybe?
I think I'm in a similar situation where I can install and run Androidx86 from my USB, but if I restart the laptop it won't find any boot option.
The device I'm trying to do this on isn't your typical x86 device. The device mentioned in the description ships with a dual boot of android 5 and windows 10. Normally plugging in a USB stick with a flashed ISO into most other devices would make it boot into the flashed OS install options or a liveCD, but in this case, it still boots into the default boot meant to choose between windows and android, and yes trying to boot into either OS from there still boots it into the selected OS. I've tried with the micro USB, USB C, and the 2 ports on the keyboard that comes with package C or D, none of them make it boot into the Live CD. The image was flashed with Rufus if that helps any.
Does anyone know of a way to boot an Android phone from an SD card or USB drive? I'd prefer not to root the device or do much modification, but I might if I have to. There's got to be a way, though!
The device that I'm trying to do it on is a ZTE Z5157V and I'd like to try to boot another OS, either Linux or another Android image. Any ideas?
Such capabilities are provided by TV Boxes and only selected software n.e.g. EmuELEC or CoreELEC. In phones it is not accepted, because they are used for something else.
Particularly, I'd like to boot Kali Linux. Their site has images for Android devices and also for ARM powered decides (I'm assuming this device has an ARM processor, but I didn't check).
It doesn't work like that, if you have ARM support you'll run on the phone. Kali Nethunter installs on android, not as a standalone system.
I was assuming nethunter was a bootable OS. So that clears that up.
How do these devices boot? What type of memory do they have? Are they partitioned, like one for the bootloader/recovery & one for the OS? Upon powering up, what software does the device access first?
Take a look at
Kali NetHunter | Kali Linux Documentation
Kali on your Android phone
www.kali.org