I used this approach to install Android x86 3.2 Honeycomb on a SD card, whilst Android x86 2.2 was already installed on my netbooks SSD. A flash media prepared in this way shall be bootable on note- or netbooks (press ESC, F2, F8 or F11 to invoke the BIOS boot menu an select the removable boot media as boot device). Download the Android-x86 ISO file which is more appropriate for your laptop, desktop or tablet model (check for model numbers with the download links). img file on the flash drive, that will be mounted in Grub boot loader. The install wizard also offers an option to set up a fake SD card. This is important, because then boot helpers will be installed and all Linux partitions are written as. The SD card (listed in most cases as device sdc1) may not be formatted as ext3, instead format it as fat32. After searching the internet, I found an article, that mentioned the trick. But for my own, I failed, because the SD cards created in this way won't boot. In principle, it should be sufficient, to select the flash card as an install target and proceed the install steps. My specs: 4GB RAM Intel Pentium silver N5000 UHD graphics 605 1366x768 1TB HDD I hope any one can help. So we decide to create our code base to provide support on different x86 platforms, and set up a. I installed windows 10 and MX Linux in a dual boot and would like to add android x86 to the grub menu after installation but I have no idea what I should write in the grub40custom file. A few months after we created the project, we found out that we could do much more than just hosting patches.
I discussed the install steps in (but in German – English articles may be found at c, d – and b discusses how to handle Android x86]). The original plan is to host different patches for android x86 support from open source community. In this cases installing Android x86 on a SD flash card will be an appropriate solution. But an install on a netbooks hard disk isn't always an option. I've used this solution a couple of timee to test Android on distinct netbooks (Eee PC 701G, MSI Wind U100) and slates.Ī disadvantage is, that all settings made during a session will be dropped on reboot. The advantage: You may experiment with a machine without modifying the already installed operating system. Such a thumb drive may be used to boot Android x86 as a life system. It is rather easy to bring Android x86 (a port for x86 system) to a USB stick or SD card using a tool like unetbootin (see ).