I am having trouble installing Remix OS in my laptop (Acer E5-521)
I made a 16GB partition for the Remix OS and install the system via it's bundled program.
I also successfully configured my laptop to dual-boot with Remix OS and Windows 10 with a complex work-around (Simple EasyBCD process doesn't work for me as the NeoGrub is greyed out) even I disabled the secure boot in the boot menu.
Once I try to boot to the Remix OS this what happen: it stays on the logo. I tired to wait for some hour and even stayed my laptop overnight it will not boot to the UI or the setup.
I try to look for solutions. Unfortunately, most tutorial I saw is through using an MBR partition.
My PC HDD is a GPT -- which is kinda obsolete using an OS like this.
To anyone who can help or had successfully installed the OS in a GPT HDD, I am hoping for your kindness to share your knowledge regarding this matter.
Looking forward for a reply
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laconix00 said:
I am having trouble installing Remix OS in my laptop (Acer E5-521)
I made a 16GB partition for the Remix OS and install the system via it's bundled program.
I also successfully configured my laptop to dual-boot with Remix OS and Windows 10 with a complex work-around (Simple EasyBCD process doesn't work for me as the NeoGrub is greyed out) even I disabled the secure boot in the boot menu.
Once I try to boot to the Remix OS this what happen: it stays on the logo. I tired to wait for some hour and even stayed my laptop overnight it will not boot to the UI or the setup.
I try to look for solutions. Unfortunately, most tutorial I saw is through using an MBR partition.
My PC HDD is a GPT -- which is kinda obsolete using an OS like this.
To anyone who can help or had successfully installed the OS in a GPT HDD, I am hoping for your kindness to share your knowledge regarding this matter.
Looking forward for a reply
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Try Phoenix OS 2.0.3. I have installed it on a GPT Hdd, ntfs formated partition with triple boot options. Windows 10, OS x 10.12, Phoenix OS. working fine without any problem. I used .exe file of Phoenix OS instead of .iso file.
My PC is Dell Optiplex 7010 , Intel Corei5, 8GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce 210
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Hi,
I tried to install remix os beta on my acer switch 10 sw3-013, but there is no way to start onto remix os, tried lots of things (uefi settings, disabling secure boot, selecting bootx64.efi from remix os folder, changing windows boot menu, trying with both legacy and efi version of remix os, on hdd or usb, even SD card...)
No way, my Acer always start back to windows...
If anyone has some tips that actually work, i'd be happy to.
Just for the troll, it work like a charm on my Macbook ;P , but i'd rather use it on the switch if possible
Thanks
lilins said:
Hi,
I tried to install remix os beta on my acer switch 10 sw3-013, but there is no way to start onto remix os, tried lots of things (uefi settings, disabling secure boot, selecting bootx64.efi from remix os folder, changing windows boot menu, trying with both legacy and efi version of remix os, on hdd or usb, even SD card...)
No way, my Acer always start back to windows...
If anyone has some tips that actually work, i'd be happy to.
Just for the troll, it work like a charm on my Macbook ;P , but i'd rather use it on the switch if possible
Thanks
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I tried lots of new things without success
I cannot believe I got this to install. I installed the Alpha within 10 minutes, the BETA took a bit longer. I do not have dual boot, no windows on this machine. I formatted the drive ext4, not using GPT and only installing the GRUB, not GRUB2.
I wish I could figure out why the autorotation for the screen doesn't work, any input?
This video helped me install Remix OS as I currently have it installed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FN0UaF4Yo
silkyjay82 said:
I cannot believe I got this to install. I installed the Alpha within 10 minutes, the BETA took a bit longer. I do not have dual boot, no windows on this machine. I formatted the drive ext4, not using GPT and only installing the GRUB, not GRUB2.
I wish I could figure out why the autorotation for the screen doesn't work, any input?
This video helped me install Remix OS as I currently have it installed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3FN0UaF4Yo
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i may need to try this, thanks
it should be useful
I have an old netbook that is pretty slow, it would be nice if I can install remix os as the only OS on that laptop. no boot from USB, no dual boot with windows, just push on button and remix os boots up.
For example, when I boot up ubuntu from usb there is the option to wipe hdd and install ubuntu on it. Would be nice if remix os had similar feature.
erryday said:
I have an old netbook that is pretty slow, it would be nice if I can install remix os as the only OS on that laptop. no boot from USB, no dual boot with windows, just push on button and remix os boots up.
For example, when I boot up ubuntu from usb there is the option to wipe hdd and install ubuntu on it. Would be nice if remix os had similar feature.
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If your netbook is old (perhaps with 32bit cpu only), you'll have to take into account, that Remix OS will not start because there are problems with the graphics system.
Post "Installing Remix OS to Hard Drive or Virtual Machine without additional tools" describes how to use the built in formatting tool "cfdisk" for deleting old partitions and creating new partitions and setting up Remix OS in the next steps.
If you don't mind using additional tools like "PartedMagic" you'll find a description how to prepare a hdd and how to install Remix OS in Post "Remix OS on Hard Drive or Virtual Machine - Installation and (OTA) Update"
Remix OS is supposed to use the blue Windows Boot Manager, correct?
But on my Windows tablet (Lenovo Miix 700), I always get a gray boot screen which asks me to choose "Windows" or "Remix OS".
If I select "Windows", then it will load the blue Windows Boot Manager screen (without the Remix OS option).
Can anyone explain what's going wrong?
How can I force Remix OS to use the actual Windows Boot Manager?
The reason I want the actual Windows Boot Manager is because it's easy to customize the countdown timer & boot preference. With the current gray boot screen, I can only edit the timer by mounting my boot partition & editing complicated files.
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
Bios: UEFI with Secure Boot & Fast Boot disabled.
Remix OS version: Latest (3.0.207)
Installation method: Remix OS For PC "Installation Tool" (16 gb chosen, targetted to 20 gb NTFS partition, drive letter "R:" assigned)
Okay, I discovered the solution. You can read the quoted posts below. It is not possible to add Remix OS as an option in the Windows Boot Manager...if the Windows OS was installed in UEFI.
I don't know why this isn't made more public.
I wasted so many days trying all sorts of experiments, and thinking something was wrong with my system.
HypoTurtle said:
UEFI WBM can't load anything other than windows bootloader; so it can't chainload grub2. It does however see any /efi folder as a seperate UEFI [usb] device.
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Milamber33 said:
If Windows was installed in BIOS mode, you get the Windows boot menu which is touch compatible, but if Windows was installed in UEFI mode, then the Windows boot menu can't be used to load non-Windows operating systems (thanks Microsoft) and so you get the non-touch grub boot menu. Annoying, I know, and it's the reason I ended up rebuilding my Lenovo Thinkpad Helix in BIOS mode, despite the slower boot process.
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Recently, I just installed Remix OS on my USB and it worked fine. Because of my USB port are bit unstable, I just trying to install Remix OS on my HDD (hd0,7). But, when trying to boot from Windows Boot Loader. It shows "minimal BASH-like command - - -" , i found a solution for this and bring me to the Remix Mode Options (Resident/Guest). I tried to boot Remix from any options but it only shows and stop at blinking kernel messages and error message
"intel_powerclamp: Intel powerclamp does not run on family 28 model 43
intel_rapl : driver does not support cpu family 28 model 43"
When booting from USB, it doesn't matter and it can continue booting to Remix, but it won't continue boot when ran from HDD from my HP 14 Notebook PC.
I have alternative by using my Ubuntu's Grub legacy and succesfully boot. but, it won't save any settings.
Please help me to resolve my problem.
Here's my Laptop Specifications:
CPU: AMD-A8 6410 2.0GHz
GPU: Onboard
RAM: 2GB, 1.71GB usable
Boot Mode: Legacy, Secure boot: OFF
Installed OSes: Windows 7, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Remix OS(unbootable).
N. B: sorry, bad english. I'm javanese
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It seems you're booting into guest mode since nothing is being saved. How do you boot into Remix OS? I have an HP laptop too and press F9 as the laptop boots which then allows me to boot using the EFI file. That's the only way I can boot into it as the dual-boot screen doesn't appear automatically. You have quite a bit of software installed for a machine with only 2GB of RAM in total but I don't think that's your problem. Have you installed it onto a separate partition or installed it into the Windows drive in a folder? I made a new partition of 32GB, gave it a random letter for the drive, and it boots fine to that as long as I press F9 immediately on boot (repeatedly) until the boot loader menu comes up and I choose the EFI file to boot from, and eventually after that using grub.
All HP machines have the same F9 function key which will pull up the boot menu. Try that and see if you have the option to boot from EFI or EFIx64 depending on your system. I don't know why it's not saving anything from your sessions unless it is a lack of RAM/virtual memory space. I wasn't even aware there was a guest mode if you installed to hdd (so maybe there isn't). You could try to produce a logcat of what is happening as you boot and especially as you shut down to find out why it's not holding anything from your sessions in memory. I have 8GB of RAM in my laptop but as far as I know Remix OS only gets to use a fraction of that (about 2GB) so if you're only using a 2GB RAM in total laptop with several OS already installed on it you were bound to hit problems sooner or later as you add more, but whether that's related to your current problem I wouldn't know.
Well, I guess it was my fault because of using Linux-created Partition more than using Windows one. Maybe I'll try using windows-created partition, Thanks for your reply.
EDIT: It doesn't work, I tried to install it on 9 Laptops with 7 Models for 5 Manufactures (My friends are Remix Anthusiast you know) and only 2 Models have same problem with me. My Conclusion is that my Laptop model aren't supported yet to boot RemixOS from HDD.
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