I have done dual boot remix os in Ubuntu 15.10 without making any partition. I have created a folder and I have copied remix OS files like kernel , initrd , system.sfs, ramdisk. And I have made entry in grub and then updated grub and rebooted system. I have succeeded but when I have changed settings like time and date , wallpaper and installed other services from you then after rebooting my laptop is stuck in updating system and there is an err. Why this is happening?
So please help me.
SHAN007 said:
I have done dual boot remix os in Ubuntu 15.10 without making any partition. I have created a folder and I have copied remix OS files like kernel , initrd , system.sfs, ramdisk. And I have made entry in grub and then updated grub and rebooted system. I have succeeded but when I have changed settings like time and date , wallpaper and installed other services from you then after rebooting my laptop is stuck in updating system and there is an err. Why this is happening?
So please help me.
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Make a folder called data in the same place as the .img's
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Ok guys, let's start to make this possible.
I have tried installing RemixOS on VirtualBox.
When i put it as Linux 2.6 64bits it kind of boots and gets stuck on boot Animation.
It is a good start.
Let's make this possible!
yurividal said:
Ok guys, let's start to make this possible.
I have tried installing RemixOS on VirtualBox.
When i put it as Linux 2.6 64bits it kind of boots and gets stuck on boot Animation.
It is a good start.
Let's make this possible!
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Choose 64bit and Linux(Other)
Is there anyway of not getting stuck on boot animation when using resident mode? Thanks in advance
Found it: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/remix-os-for-pc/NB6GJdAHUsA/Aw4pQgpUAQAJ
Installing and running Remix OS in VirtualBox is possible
yurividal said:
Ok guys, let's start to make this possible.
I have tried installing RemixOS on VirtualBox.
When i put it as Linux 2.6 64bits it kind of boots and gets stuck on boot Animation.
It is a good start.
Let's make this possible!
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Perhaps my post can help you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/how-to-install-remix-os-virtualbox-to-t3301160 :
You need to format the empty virtual disk with an ext4 and a swap partition in advance. This can be done by installing Ubuntu and stopping the installation after the 2 partitions have been created.
The second thing you need is a modified iso file which lets you start a "real" Remix OX installation.
working. kind of
I started by taking two hard disks. both 16 gb. THen, a fresh windows 10 home single language install from the microsoft website went on the first. they have an easy media creator.. and no, you won't need a key. (you only need windows for a second.)
. I added the second drive as drive D: within windows.
then i downloaded and followed the remix os instructions and ran the installer for the hard drive d:.
it took a long time first boot. i gave it 2 cores and 2.5Gb ram. if you can afford more.. do it. it took about 1.5 hours. mostly due to remix os initializing he disk.. and even though it had 16gb of space, looks like i provisioned 6Gb... wierd. but the os is light. snappy. it has a terminal with bash...
seems pretty beta like.. don't click on widgets.. the init will reset and all of your apps will close.
i still have not gotten play services on yet. i just downloaded the latest apk from the blog on the main JIVE website under FAQ.
installed... working.. connected, semi stable and useable. now to get play services started.
Very slow here
Machine settings
imgur.com/tCn7f4R
I have installed the 32 bits version,I get it in they site, but it's slow, is like it is rendering frame per frame, I think is because GPU or something, I tried differents resolutions with vga=ask boot command, but nothing change. Otherwise I have downloaded a VDMK disk with Remix OS installed, and that running perfectly, but I can't use superuser on it.
I'm from Brazil, Sorry for any error on english
i installed remix os 202 version in my computer...but when check update i have message in red because i don't installe remix with installer official
i create my usb key with official installer, but i installed with "install=1" option in grub into ssd ext4 format
my error it's for this installation???
z750leovince said:
i installed remix os 202 version in my computer...but when check update i have message in red because i don't installe remix with installer official
i create my usb key with official installer, but i installed with "install=1" option in grub into ssd ext4 format
my error it's for this installation???
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The OTA update looks for file images that are created by the Jide installer, if u , like in my case having remixOS on an ext4, with system and data as folders, rather than data.img and system.sfs, ur system wont updateOTA, and anyway the ramdisk.img is located in different place if installed with jide installer from windows than installed to ext4 partition using other methods as "INSTALL=1" at the command!
i updated by pulling the intire image from jide website!
<<<New World Order (NWO)>>>
i have update my remix with remix update app...my app notify me for update...and update pass ok...i have red message but i don't have any problems
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The OTA update looks for file images that are created by the Jide installer, if u , like in my case having remixOS on an ext4, with system and data as folders, rather than data.img and system.sfs, ur system wont updateOTA, and anyway the ramdisk.img is located in different place if installed with jide installer from windows than installed to ext4 partition using other methods as "INSTALL=1" at the command!
i updated by pulling the intire image from jide website!
<<<New World Order (NWO)>>>
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Hi, I'm using linux and I put RemixOS on my linux root partition, with data folder, system.sfs,kernel and other. Actually I dont know and and I not see any Official Installer for Linux users. So, how can I get OTA update? Answers please.
*sorry for my bad english.
nilocatur said:
Hi, I'm using linux and I put RemixOS on my linux root partition, with data folder, system.sfs,kernel and other. Actually I dont know and and I not see any Official Installer for Linux users. So, how can I get OTA update? Answers please.
*sorry for my bad english.
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u wont get OTA by that method...ur installation needs to have been precisely installed by the windows jide installer executable, currently no installer for linux!
...as per jide, u will not be able to do the OTA update if used other method than default!
<<<New World Order (NWO)>>>
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.
Zwulf said:
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
Code:
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
HypoTurtle said:
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.
Zwulf said:
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]
HypoTurtle said:
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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I'm installed with installer download from oficial site. But after selected Remix OS from booting selection menu, i got two option:
Android
Android( Debug mode)
Them always gave me this message:
--set--root /Android/system.img
Error 15: file not found
When i came back to previous screen, then press E, i have this
--set--root /Android/system.img
/kernel /Android/kernel (many things here)
initrd /android/initrd.img
I replaced Android with RemixOS, it continue and then i stuck at
A N D R O I D [email protected]_x86_64:#
Anyway to fix this issue?
percynguyen92 said:
I'm installed with installer download from oficial site. But after selected Remix OS from booting selection menu, i got two option:
Android
Android( Debug mode)
Them always gave me this message:
--set--root /Android/system.img
Error 15: file not found
When i came back to previous screen, then press E, i have this
--set--root /Android/system.img
/kernel /Android/kernel (many things here)
initrd /android/initrd.img
I replaced Android with RemixOS, it continue and then i stuck at
A N D R O I D [email protected]_x86_64:#
Anyway to fix this issue?
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The official installer doesn't install into an Android folder; so I don't think you installed correctly.
However if you find your grub.cfg [or menu.lst] and change it to --set--root /Android/kernel you should be fine.
If you can't find the grub/menu.lst then add a file called system.img to the Android folder [copying and renaming the initrd.img is probably the simplest way to do it]
@percynguyen92 are you sure u used the official installer? Did you install Remix OS before with unofficial methods?
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I downloaded from jide.com. i have checked md5sum. I searched many files with "Android" word including grub.cfg and menu.lst. Coundn't find any. My remix os use system.sfs, not system.img, what can i do?
@Vioner i have installed alpha version before with easybcd
percynguyen92 said:
I downloaded from jide.com. i have checked md5sum. I searched many files with "Android" word including grub.cfg and menu.lst. Coundn't find any. My remix os use system.sfs, not system.img, what can i do?
@Vioner i have installed alpha version before with easybcd
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Ah with legacy/bios it's menu.lst - not sure how to get to that. I do think you are loading the grub you used previously with easybcd rather than the one instaaled with the jide tool. So ideally boot to your bios and see is there a different boot entry you can launch. Alternatively as said before add a blank/garbage file called system.img into that folder - grub just wants to find it; it will actually use the system.sfs to run Remix [or you can press e on every boot and change system.img to system.sfs]
@percynguyen92 like HypoTurtle said - your PC instead of trying to start current Remix, starts alpha because of the old bootloader files /boot entries. It's probably just the old menu.lst file.
I don't know much about legacy booting, but you should be able to fix this with EasyBCD or by accessing the bootloader files and wiping the alpha version files.
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i downloaded hacked version and stucking on bootscreen
A N D R O I [email protected]_x86_64
i will try debug mode tomorrow
I also had this issue, once I tried to install Android x86 on my PC and I think it fu*ked something in boot...
Today I fixed it finally....
With this command:
Code:
bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr
I'm not sure if it will work when Windows is booted, but I've used Windows install disc, booted it, and somewhere in repair PC is also command option....
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@Ja_som how and where can i use this command? i'm not IT pro
percynguyen92 said:
@Ja_som how and where can i use this command? i'm not IT pro
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I'm also not a IT pro, Google search is my friend
Here is a step by step guide
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/repair-master-boot-record-mbr-windows
But in step 4, do not type those 4 commands (bootrec ....). but type command from my previous post, wait until it is done, close command window and reboot....
Ja_som said:
I also had this issue, once I tried to install Android x86 on my PC and I think it fu*ked something in boot...
Today I fixed it finally....
With this command:
Code:
bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr
I'm not sure if it will work when Windows is booted, but I've used Windows install disc, booted it, and somewhere in repair PC is also command option....
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You should also be able to restore the bcd [like what this does] with EasyBCD itself.
okay, i'm gonna buy a SSD, just money problem now. May be change hard drive and fresh install Windows 10 may fix this issue. Thanks guys!
Hey guys,
I recently installed RemixOS 3.0.204 on an Acer Alpha Switch 12, and since I'm running it with Windows 10 but I intend to install some Linux flavor later on, I decided to go ahead and use rEFInd for multibooting (there's also the fact that RemixOS' GRUB wouldn't show up anywhere in my system).
My question at this point regards the default GRUB installed with RemixOS; I can't seem to find the configuration that's running anywhere. I found a couple of grub.cfg files on /EFI/RemixOS/efi/RemixOS (namely grub.cfg, grub32.cfg, grub64.cfg), but editing any or all of these had no impact whatsoever on my GRUB entries. Would anyone be able to help me either remove the GRUB menu altogether or customize it, at least?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: if anyone's looking for a similar solution, you'll very likely need to mount your computer's EFI partition like I did - the one that would show up is probably the EFI folder on RemixOS installation files. To do that, I had to look into /dev/block and my partitions were listed as sdaX, so chances are you'll find a similar setup for your computer. Good luck!
UEFI boot uses EFI:/boot/grub/grub.cfg file for the menuentry details - edit this one.
Vioner said:
UEFI boot uses EFI:/boot/grub/grub.cfg file for the menuentry details - edit this one.
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I finally managed to find out what I was doing wrong; I assumed a device listed in /storage was my EFI partition, but it turns out it was probably just the EFI folder from RemixOS original installation. I managed to find my EFI on /dev/block/sda1 and editing grub.cfg was spot on.
Thanks for the help, buddy!
GryphonBR said:
Hey guys,
I recently installed RemixOS 3.0.204 on an Acer Alpha Switch 12, and since I'm running it with Windows 10 but I intend to install some Linux flavor later on, I decided to go ahead and use rEFInd for multibooting (there's also the fact that RemixOS' GRUB wouldn't show up anywhere in my system).
My question at this point regards the default GRUB installed with RemixOS; I can't seem to find the configuration that's running anywhere. I found a couple of grub.cfg files on /EFI/RemixOS/efi/RemixOS (namely grub.cfg, grub32.cfg, grub64.cfg), but editing any or all of these had no impact whatsoever on my GRUB entries. Would anyone be able to help me either remove the GRUB menu altogether or customize it, at least?
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: if anyone's looking for a similar solution, you'll very likely need to mount your computer's EFI partition like I did - the one that would show up is probably the EFI folder on RemixOS installation files. To do that, I had to look into /dev/block and my partitions were listed as sdaX, so chances are you'll find a similar setup for your computer. Good luck!
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How is Remix running on your switch 12; does everything work properly?
Ludespeed said:
How is Remix running on your switch 12; does everything work properly?
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Yep, every little thing. The one gripe I've had is when I connect the charger with the computer on standby from Remix OS - not sure what is causing it, but it will reset and I have to do a cold start to get it back to work. But if I take the time to wake it up, connect the charger and then put it back to sleep, no problems.
But other than that, everything is great - sound, WiFi, every port... Oh, one more annoyance - the physical volume keys don't work out of the box. I might be able to get them to, but for now I don't care much about it. And one thing I haven't tried at all is the internal gyroscope, to see if the screen rotates automatically.