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.
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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!
Hi All,
I've been wanting to create a Windows To Go Drive on my Android so that I can simply plug in my phone into any PC i want and voila, my own Windows 8.1!
I've only had limited success, so I wanted to ask the dev community what could be going wrong.
What I Used:
Sprint Galaxy Nexus (Rooted, 4.3)
DriveDroid
Sony Vaio Laptop running Windows 8 (Win7 and below dont have latest DISM or Diskpart) (Capable of UEFI booting)
What I Did:
1. Used DriveDroid to create a 10GB image file. It made the file, so i'm guessing that the internal sdcard of the Nexus is not FAT32. No Partition Table and no File System (Yet)
2. Plugged in the phone. Recognized it as a USB Drive.
3. Used Diskpart to clean drive, create primary partition, format as ntfs and set active
4. Extracted install.wim from Windows 8.1 Disc
5. Used DISM to copy image onto Blank USB Drive (Took around 2 hours)
**It's better to use DISM in comparison to ImageX, since ImageX is older and has mixed results
6. Used BCDBoot to copy boot files onto USB Drive
7. Rebooted. UEFI Boot Failed (Didnt even attempt to recognize the drive)
8. Legacy Boot WORKED! Reached Windows Boot Manager
From here though, the Boot Manager simply refuses to recognize the existence of a Bootable OS. (Screenshot uploaded) :crying:
I've been using EasyBCD to change the configuration to make it work. No results yet.
I dunno how close I am to making this work - Maybe really close or probably a gazillion miles away. But I've put a lot of thought and effort into this and was really hoping it would work. :laugh:
Any advice as to where i could be going wrong?
Hi all!
I managed to get to make it boot!
It reaches the windows 8 boot logo and the spinning circle just keeps spinning on and on and on.....doesn't stop spinning but doesn't go further than that either.
When it does that, there is
a) No HDD activity
b) No response from Num Lock and Caps Lock key lights
c) No BSOD or response when the phone is unplugged
It's like it doesn't care. Just keeps spinning
Any ideas to what could be wrong The drive is definitely NTFS, with extra space present. I've tried this on multiple PCs
I think I'll try making it again
Regards,
Xyan
Earlier this week, I posted a thread here asking for help with my hybrid android/windows tablet (Neo Shift N81) that wouldn't boot anymore into Windows. Nobody was able to help here and I ended up going back to the store where I got myself a windows recovery USB. After several attempts, it finally loaded the thumb drive. It reinstalled windows, but what the installation ended up doing was reformat the WHOLE disk on my tablet thereby effectively erasing the partition containing android as well. crying: FML)
So now I have the opposite problem. Windows boots and android doesn't. A little bit of googling led me to Android x86, which is able to run on Intel processors like the one on my tablet. I ended up downloading the 4.4 rc5 iso since it said that would compatible with my 32-bit EFI firmware. I created a 7gb partition by shrinking the main windows one and formatted it as ext4. I placed the iso onto a 2GB fat-32 USB using UNetbootin. I was able to boot it by going into the BIOS and force booting it. I tried testing it by running the live option, but it didn't boot although I suspect that may have also been because the thumb drive I used was ancient (from 2008). Then I installed it to the partition I created earlier. I initially tried to select "do not format", but when I got to the GRUB install windows it wouldn't proceed when I selected "yes" (it just started what looks like a command prompt, except no commands were accepted and would just continue creating multiple lines). Reboot and I selected it to format the partition into ext3. This time, it would proceed beyond "yes" and installed normally. Except it still didn't boot into Android. There was no grub menu or anything and the tablet just automatically boots into Windows 10. (I do have secure boot and fast boot disabled in BIOS) When I check the BIOS, it also doesn't have Grub as one of the options.
What I then tried was the instructions at this link where I select "skip" upon the grub install window during android installation. Grub2Win does show up upon the boot options, but even if I try to force boot that option, it doesn't do anything.
So what now? is there another bootloader I could try? Did I even install android correctly or did I select an .iso not compatible with my hardware?? (Prior to android being erased by the windows installation, the android on my tablet was 4.4) The info page mentioned that the "second" is an EFI image, does that mean I should download the .img file? Please help.
I followed instructions mostly from here.
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.
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