Hi! I followed a guide and everything went fine until the last step. Usually you get into the OS but i'm always getting into the terminal. And I have no idea what to do. Please help.
Can't post the picture with how it looks like, need to post 10 posts until I can do that. But if you go on the reddit for Remix OS (/r/remixos) you can see my post there (same title) and the pictures. Sorry for that
What kind of hardware does your system has? May be editing grub.cfg file can boot into the desktop.
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Help I tried installing android on my Hd2 i followed the steps of extracting it to my SD card then I hit clrcad (misspelled I know) and then i hit haret and it goes to the linux boot screen after that it loads but then it freezes and says extract rootrs or something so I believe mad a mistake somwhere...
I would really like to know what im doing wrong thanks
jassonss17 said:
I would really like to know what im doing wrong thanks
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Well to begin with you're posting a "Android" question in the standard HD2 questions forum when we have a specific "Android Q&A" forum.
Also you obviously haven't even attempted to read any "stickies" or "guides" because if you did you would know that you need a minium radio version to run android and also that you need to make sure your card is properly formatted etc. Because you didnt even mention any of this its obvious you have just jumped into a build topic and though hey that sounds cool lets extract, you then failed at booting the build and though Icant be bothered to take 5 mins and do a bit of reading Il just post that I failed and hopefully somebody wil write a step by step guide for me even though they ALREADY exists.
So to summarise..
a) Go read the guides
b) Read them again.
c) Search or look at the questions that already exist
d) If you cant find your answer ask in the correct place.
Hi
Anyone successfully encrypted their remix os?
Mine just reboots to the os
I have the same issue, I think, when I click on Encrypt from within the Remix OS setting it just does a sort of reboot (quicker than a standard reboot, that is) and drops me back at the front pin screen.
Did you get anywhere with resolving this issue?
I am dual booting with Windows 10 (bitlocker encrypted). Both are installed on the internal SSD of my laptop. It is a GUID type partition with UEFI type BIOS.
The method I used to install (I didn't explore others as this seemed simple) was to unpack the Remix OS download from within Windows, create a FAT32 partition and copy to the new partition. I then used EasyUEFI to point at the relevant file to boot in /efi/boot.
The only other thing that I needed to do was to modify the persistant GRUB entry so that it would create a datafile, otherwise it basically ran in guest mode regardless of which option I selected.
It's been working well for a few weeks since initial install.
Thoughts or assistance would be greatly appreciated.
All the best,
Dan
Please excuse the gratuitous bump, but I would really appreciate if someone could post if they have sucessfully encrypted their Remix OS installation? And if any special steps were necessary?
Thanks
Dan
In the absence of a solution - some help in how to debug this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Sorry to bump this thread again - but has anyone successfully encrypted their Remix OS install?
Same here
Just to let you know - you're not the only ones. Currently my new RemixOS installation is failing to encrypt - I've installed it onto a USB stick and it fails both under Virtualbox and when booted directly from hardware.
From looking online for similar issues with Android in general they appear to be related to hardware settings like being connected to a wireless network, having an SD card in use, or not being in landscape - not I'm not sure how to fix this with Remix OS. Also I think all those issues refer to old versions of Android.
I'd be interested to hear if either of you fixed this problem, or on any tips on even how to get logs ( "logcat" appears to only show logs since the last boot, so isn't any use here ).
So this is an old thread, im hoping to get someone to answer these guys and my question. Can Remix OS be encrypted?
when choosing to encrypt it just does a soft reboot. im trying to use my laptop for corporate byod but the device had to be un-rooted and encryptable. so far i fixed the root but its still a no go on encryption. if not, is there an android os i can use on pc that is encryptable ?
Just as the title says, I'm curious if there exists a touch (or hardkey, i.e. volume up/down and windoes key) enabled bootloader.
Currently i have to press arrow keys and enter to select either windows or android.
Is there such a thing? It would be amazing. Id rather not have to stop at the keyboard to boot to an os from grub.
Thanks in advance!
Well .. I had suffered from this problem for longtime and finally I solved by an app called android-x86 installer it's the only way to boot from your Windows tablet without keyboard at last what I ended up with .. so yo have to download an old version I recommend the ALPHA version and install it with android-x86 installer 2.4 UEFI version after finished installing you have to download the latest version of remix OS and extract with 7zip or winrar then replace all file with the same name in folder androidOS that the direction of ALFA you already installed now You can boot with two ways either from settings/update / recovery and then press restart now at advanced startup then after reboot choose "use a device " and last thing chose android OS wait 9 seconds in grub2 an finally the remixOS will boot or by simply choose android OS from boot menu by volume Up/down
Boot solution for XPS 12 9250
Will thank you for this post when my 'Thanks!' get replenished on XDA. I'm still only using windows 10 on this tablet PC.
It is not clear to me is this is dual boot Android/Windows, my understanding is that this particular usage of the Linux grub bootloader only boots to Remix OS which is android. Grub, as you know does have dual boot capabilities, but maybe not yet on the XPS 12 9250.
Sorry, but the instructions are not step-by-step details for me, and I seem to be not smart enough to follow them. Could you point me to a 1..., 2..., 3.... please?
Please update or PM me whenever you feel you have found a better boot solution for our 9250's. I will be most grateful.
namitutonka said:
Will thank you for this post when my 'Thanks!' get replenished on XDA. I'm still only using windows 10 on this tablet PC.
It is not clear to me is this is dual boot Android/Windows, my understanding is that this particular usage of the Linux grub bootloader only boots to Remix OS which is android. Grub, as you know does have dual boot capabilities, but maybe not yet on the XPS 12 9250.
Sorry, but the instructions are not step-by-step details for me, and I seem to be not smart enough to follow them. Could you point me to a 1..., 2..., 3.... please?
Please update or PM me whenever you feel you have found a better boot solution for our 9250's. I will be most grateful.
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Grub can chainload the entry just fine. And when using the official tool it auto-adds an entry if it detects Windows is installed, which it will be as it's a windows tool [unless running via wine] it'll add an entry for it.
Without the tool you can do it manually. Personally I have a second easy to access efi partition that I use, if you want to do the same download a partition manager like minitool and confirm that you have 16MB of unallocated space between your efi and C: drive and I'll dig up a post/walk you through the rest tomorrow
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Grub can chainload the entry just fine. And when using the official tool it auto-adds an entry if it detects Windows is installed, which it will be as it's a windows tool [unless running via wine] it'll add an entry for it.
Without the tool you can do it manually. Personally I have a second easy to access efi partition that I use, if you want to do the same download a partition manager like minitool and confirm that you have 16MB of unallocated space between your efi and C: drive and I'll dig up a post/walk you through the rest tomorrow
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Very excited to pursue this, but this week is filled with close family coming here to stay for our only holiday celebration. Will post back here when I get that unallocated space, after creating a backup of the current system. May use Gparted, but will check out minitool as well.
Walk through, dual boot Remix OS + Win10 on XPS 12 9250
@HypoTurtle
Waiting on a second USB-C to USB cable so I can boot a Macrium Reflect flash drive and backup a restorable PC image to an external Hard drive. After I'm sure I can restore this image I'll try to install Remix OS.
This youtube link is straightforward and simple to follow for the dual boot installation process. I've seen many reporting hardware/software issues on the many XDA forum threads branching off of "Remix OS for PC". So obviously one size does not fit all. Compiling and replacing different Linux kernels, editing grub.cfg, initrd.img, system.img, data.img.... The very worse thing on xda forums are ignorant end-user whiners like me who want instant gratification with their perfectly working phone or tablet. This vast forum has so many xda-developers, steeped in code, gaining and sharing trial and error knowledge. So many thousands of threads where xda-developers are taken for granted to lay solutions into end-user's laps. So many of us end-users are oblivious to this baby sitting. I will try the time consuming and painstaking learning curve. The least knowledgeable member on xda-forums should try to learn and not be spoon fed. It is essential, whatever our capacity, to all become developers interested in expanding the usefulness of our devices over and above the limited and constrained manufacturer's parameters.
Why another tutorial?
As I searched the net and XDA for a guide to actually install Remix OS and found nothing that worked for me I decided to share with you guys how I managed to install it in Resident Mode. Writing this from XDA Labs on my PC now... For me I found out that the Remix OS installer is totally useless - with some copying from Remix OS folder to root folder of the created partition and manually adding UEFI entry I managed it to boot in Guest Mode but Resident Mode was still not working (bootloop). This started to make me mad as I tried so many tutorials already...
So I tried Phoenix OS and it seemed at first that this one was much better - no need for adding UEFI boot entry or experiencing Windows boot entry problems and such as it installs GRUB and boots the OS just fine. First entry in GRUB is Windows, second one Phoenix OS. Well, started it and it booted up... finally! Used it, wanted to install an app and ran into a random reboot. After a while I recognized that these random reboots happened quite often and the system was unusable for me. So my idea was just to replace Phoenix OS files with Remix OS files as the booting part was already working... and guess... it worked! You can't choose Guest Mode though, but I think you won't need that at all on your PC.
Best one on this: you won't need to open your BIOS start-menu and can boot up normally, just choose your system in GRUB bootloader which appears automatically without the need to do anything before. I find it quite annoying to hit BIOS button to start Remix OS, don't you too? So if you are able to install but don't like that behaviour this tutorial is also for you!
So here it is...
On which machines does this work?
Should be working on all PCs / Laptops running Windows 10 with GPT and UEFI BIOS. Probably also works on machines with MBR instead of GPT partition table and legacy Bios, quite sure this works also on older Windows versions (7/8/8.1). Just let me know if it works for you or doesn't.
How to install
(1)
- Create an NTFS partition on which you want to install it (right, no FAT32 crap!). It should be at least 32 GB.
If you don't know how just search XDA or Google. There are several Remix OS installing tutorials on YouTube which show how to do that in Windows.
(2)
- Download Phoenix OS 1.0.9 RC
- Download Remix OS or Remix OS Hacked Edition if you like to have root and some tweaks for it.
I used Hacked Edition.
(3)
- Use Phoenix OS installer and install it on your created partition (make sure you got the correct drive letter! I'm not responsible if you don't and lose your data...), don't reboot.
- Open the created partition in Explorer.
Create a folder named RemixOS, move all files from PhoenixOS to RemixOS.
(Obviously Phoenix is based on Remix and expects it's data to be in RemixOS folder. Funny bug. ;D)
- Reboot. Choose Remix OS.
Enjoy the nice, buggy OS. For some this may be just everthing they need. If you're happy and experience no reboots or other bugs you should be just fine and don't have to follow the next steps.
(4)
- Reboot to Windows.
- Unzip Remix OS archive - should be 2 files: Remix OS image and installer. You could safely delete the installer as you won't need it.
Use 7zip or Winrar (or whatever) to extract the Remix OS image file into a folder.
- Move the contents of that extracted folder into the RemixOS folder on your created partition. Overwrite everything. You could also extract the image file directly into RemixOS folder.
(5)
- Reboot. Choose Remix OS.
- Done.
You now should be running a working Remix OS in Resident Mode. Works fine here.
Be nice and hit thanks if I could help you.
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Why another tutorial?
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- Use Phoenix OS installer and install it on your created partition (make sure you got the correct drive letter! I'm not responsible if you don't and lose your data...), don't reboot.
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Hi.
Does that mean that the installation of Phoenix OS erase all the data in that partition?
Regards.
jocaferlo said:
Hi.
Does that mean that the installation of Phoenix OS erase all the data in that partition?
Regards.
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I'm not sure about that, only used it on a freshly formatted partition. Mentioned this just to make sure not to be blamed if it should do so.
There's a few things off with these instructions:
1. PhoenixOS does not use a RemixOS folder
2. PhoenixOS's grub.cfg won't boot any RemixOS version especially x64 - as PhoenixOS is 32bit only.
stock phoenixos grub.cfg
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menuentry 'Phoenix OS' --class android-x86 {
search --set=root --file /efi/PhoenixOS/kernel
linux /efi/PhoenixOS/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 SRC=/PhoenixOS vga=788
initrd /efi/PhoenixOS/initrd.img
}
Something else is going on here. Perhaps the phoenixOS's grub.efi is being used; but it's using the RemixOS grub.cfg. But I think it's just the RemixOS .efi/.cfg and something just switched the default bootloader to grub2 from WBM
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There's a few things off with these instructions:
1. PhoenixOS does not use a RemixOS folder
2. PhoenixOS's grub.cfg won't boot any RemixOS version especially x64 - as PhoenixOS is 32bit only.
stock phoenixos grub.cfg
Something else is going on here. Perhaps the phoenixOS's grub.efi is being used; but it's using the RemixOS grub.cfg. But I think it's just the RemixOS .efi/.cfg and something just switched the default bootloader to grub2 from WBM
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Maybe, my deeper technical know-how about that is very limited, but I know that it works for me - reproducible. This is just for those like me who tried literally every guide on the net and still none worked. This one probably will. Myself, I find that kind of strange, too and I'm not able to explain why, but it does work. It's just a try and error thing, but for me it works - as already mentioned: reproducible. Got an i7 2nd gen and a X79 Gigabyte Mainboard.
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Maybe, my deeper technical know-how about that is very limited, but I know that it works for me - reproducible. This is just for those like me who tried literally every guide on the net and still none worked. This one probably will. Myself, I find that kind of strange, too and I'm not able to explain why, but it does work. It's just a try and error thing, but for me it works - as already mentioned: reproducible. Got an i7 2nd gen and a X79 Gigabyte Mainboard.
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I'm not saying it doesn't work; but what appears to be happening is that the first 'failed' RemixOS installation added things [to efi/esp partition]. And the PhoenixOS install added or replaced something that made the first install work correctly - it could be either the PhOS grub.efi [although that's 32bit] or as simple as it changing your default bootloader.
Download EasyUEFI if you can and see what's in the first partition - I'm just personally curious as to what is going on here.
I'm also using a non-Jide released grub [like Ubuntu users would be - but with a different setup]
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I'm not saying it doesn't work; but what appears to be happening is that the first 'failed' RemixOS installation added things [to efi/esp partition]. And the PhoenixOS install added or replaced something that made the first install work correctly - it could be either the PhOS grub.efi [although that's 32bit] or as simple as it changing your default bootloader.
Download EasyUEFI if you can and see what's in the first partition - I'm just personally curious as to what is going on here.
I'm also using a non-Jide released grub [like Ubuntu users would be - but with a different setup]
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Sounds very possible... Got EasyUEFI installed but I'm at work atm. Will tell/show you what's in there later this evening when I'm home. The strangest thing I didn't get: original RemixOS booted fine after copying RemixOS folder content to root - but only guest mode worked, not resident. But I mentioned that already in OP. The whole thing would have been a lot easier if I didn't ditch my Arch Linux for RemixOS (for GRUB's sake... ;D), but there were less things to learn...
These instructions didn't work for me, except for the fact that I didn't create a partition. Phoenix would come up as a boot choice but would boot loop.
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This is my first time posting on the website so I apologise ahead of time. I am trying to dual boot my laptop with Remix OS. It is the Asus ROG GL551JW-DS71 (i7 4720hq, 16 gb ram, 1 tb hdd, gtx 960m, windows 8.1, if anything else is needed, let me know). I've done some research and it seems that it might be an issue with my GPU. I've tried putting the "nouveau.modeset =" and what not but I can't get it to load past the "ANDROID [email protected]_x86_64:/ #" I put "DEBUG=1" in the Grub line thing and I took pictures of my screen. I'm not sure what site you guys would like me to use to upload so I'll upload them once someone lets me know. Thanks in advance!
Have you searched for a disable dedicated/discrete graphics in BIOS? You need to disable it, because Remix will not boot with your GTX960M enabled.
If you don't have that option, then I'm sorry but for now you will be able to boot only using software rendering; graphics handled by the CPU. This means a less stable experience and less performance, but it will work 100%
Add this in the kernel grub line:
Code:
androidboot.swrast=1
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This is my first time posting on the website so I apologise ahead of time. I am trying to dual boot my laptop with Remix OS. It is the Asus ROG GL551JW-DS71 (i7 4720hq, 16 gb ram, 1 tb hdd, gtx 960m, windows 8.1, if anything else is needed, let me know). I've done some research and it seems that it might be an issue with my GPU. I've tried putting the "nouveau.modeset =" and what not but I can't get it to load past the "ANDROID [email protected]_x86_64:/ #" I put "DEBUG=1" in the Grub line thing and I took pictures of my screen. I'm not sure what site you guys would like me to use to upload so I'll upload them once someone lets me know. Thanks in advance!
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Try to add "nomodeset" instead of "nouveau.modeset =".
nomodeset might work, but it's highly unlikely.
I've made a guide for these kind of problems today: http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/solution-problems-booting-remix-os-dual-t3466027
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Have you searched for a disable dedicated/discrete graphics in BIOS? You need to disable it, because Remix will not boot with your GTX960M enabled.
If you don't have that option, then I'm sorry but for now you will be able to boot only using software rendering; graphics handled by the CPU. This means a less stable experience and less performance, but it will work 100%
Add this in the kernel grub line:
Code:
androidboot.swrast=1
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I have looked for that option in my bios and I couldn't find it. I forgot to mention in my original posting that I had my Windows reinstalled with because the hard drive failed. I don't believe that I have the option to boot to the UEFI so I wonder if that has to do anything. I tried putting the "androidboot.swrast=1" code after the kernel line in the GRUB line editor thingy and I got it to boot. It's a bit unstable and the screen tends to tear when I move a large window around. The only problem now is how to make it permanent. I tried editing the file that was mentioned in some guides but it doesn't seem to stick.
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Try to add "nomodeset" instead of "nouveau.modeset =".
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I have tried both of the commands and it still hands at the Android root part. Are there any other commands or combination of commands that could work? I don't have an option in my bios to disable my gtx 960m and there isn't an option to boot to the UEFI. I wonder if the Windows reinstall due to a hard drive failure has something to do with it. Thanks in advance!