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I ve installed ubuntu on a partition and works correctly. But when I booted vista OS I saw tipical windows blue screen error after some seconds. Probably Ubunty moved a important file when resized the particions. Ok, I ve formatted vista partition (using ubuntu live cd) but when I try to install Vista the installer fails creating a partion. In fact the installer doesnt see any partition. Only the entire disk. And when I boot using fn+f3 (to recover vista) the screen keeps black and nothing happens after the question "all the data will be erased, bla, bla". I know the recovery partition is there because I can see it with Ubuntu live CD. Please, any idea? I am happy with ubuntu but I need vista or xp too.
Dani
If you don't mind having a Spanish Vista, I can dump the recovery partition for you and provide instructions on how to write it, so you will be able to recover Vista with Fn+F3.
Thanks¡¡¡, It would be nice.... I am lost...
How to dump and restore the Vista recovery partition:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/04/...re-the-vista-recovery-partition-on-htc-shift/
I will send you the 'shift-vista-recovery.bin' file once I finish dumping it.
ouch that sucks ... pof have you been able to dual boot and do you think that it's an isolate issue?
koala996 said:
ouch that sucks ... pof have you been able to dual boot and do you think that it's an isolate issue?
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yes, he has overwritten the HPA because he did a wrong partitioning. I'm sending him mine so he can recover.
To avoid breaking things you have two choices when partitioning the Shift:
1) Understand how the HPA works in the Shift, so you just need to avoid overwriting the last 3GiB (3.2 GB) of your 40 GB HDD.
or
2) Make any changes to the partition table using a "dumb" system like Vista, which doesn't see the the HPA, so doesn't allow you to screw it.
And for really newbie people, the best is to use wubi-installer, which does not require you to modify the partitions on the shift, as it installs ubuntu as if it was a windows program.
pof said:
yes, he has overwritten the HPA because he did a wrong partitioning. I'm sending him mine so he can recover.
To avoid breaking things you have two choices when partitioning the Shift:
1) Understand how the HPA works in the Shift, so you just need to avoid overwriting the last 3GiB (3.2 GB) of your 40 GB HDD.
or
2) Make any changes to the partition table using a "dumb" system like Vista, which doesn't see the the HPA, so doesn't allow you to screw it.
And for really newbie people, the best is to use wubi-installer, which does not require you to modify the partitions on the shift, as it installs ubuntu as if it was a windows program.
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ok .. but there are many Linux that can be installed in the partition on Vista without needing to have 2 partitions... isn't it ? .. I don't know if Ubuntu is able to do it.. but I know that Mandrake/Mandriva could do it easily
koala996 said:
ok .. but there are many Linux that can be installed in the partition on Vista without needing to have 2 partitions... isn't it ? .. I don't know if Ubuntu is able to do it.. but I know that Mandrake/Mandriva could do it easily
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yes, that's exactly what wubi-installer does.
pof said:
yes, that's exactly what wubi-installer does.
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ok .. I didn't know wubi.. I'm used having a partition for each os
Please get a shift-vista-recovery.bin
I format my drive an install Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and lost a HPA partition
how install ubuntu on a usbpen without remove entire mbr on shift (without put out the hdd)
on my g1s i've detached hdd and installed, everything goes well.
but on the shift how make that. don't want to umount shift.
also, theres no driver for any version of linux that make work touchscreen?
and for vista ultimate, there is an .exe file to make htc hid pen work?
thx in advance for any suggestion.
Copy the content of the CD to a pen and installing it from vista. The installer gives you the posibility to create or not a new partition and the mbr will belong to vista, if you want
danielherrero said:
Copy the content of the CD to a pen and installing it from vista. The installer gives you the posibility to create or not a new partition and the mbr will belong to vista, if you want
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sorry but i want make ubuntu bootable from pen and not on the shift. don't want to loose recovery partition. when i tried on a desktop pc installing on a pen installation formatted all partitions and mbr. on my laptop it tryed to format all partitions. but i've interrupted it and detached hdd.
You can use wubi-installer to install ubuntu on HDD without partitioning and without loosing the recovery partition, it is 100% safe.
If you still want to run it from a USB pendrive, see http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
To get WLAN, 3G and suspend/resume working on ubuntu see my blog:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/category/htc-shift/
Regarding the touchscreen, I've been working on it and finally today I have managed to write a small kernel module which is able to get raw data from the touchscreen, but it is still far from being usable. I will be working on this for the next few days, so hopefully soon we'll have a working touchscreen driver available
pof said:
You can use wubi-installer to install ubuntu on HDD without partitioning and without loosing the recovery partition, it is 100% safe.
If you still want to run it from a USB pendrive, see http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
To get WLAN, 3G and suspend/resume working on ubuntu see my blog:
http://pof.eslack.org/blog/category/htc-shift/
Regarding the touchscreen, I've been working on it and finally today I have managed to write a small kernel module which is able to get raw data from the touchscreen, but it is still far from being usable. I will be working on this for the next few days, so hopefully soon we'll have a working touchscreen driver available
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nice man, you are a real genius. already followed the guide for pendrivelinux.
but my doubt is. if i try to install ubuntu on the pendrive and execute ubuntu from the pen i've the risk to eliminate my vista?
i'm not able to dump my shift rom and i don't want to loose it if something goes wrong!!
pitt1983 said:
but my doubt is. if i try to install ubuntu on the pendrive and execute ubuntu from the pen i've the risk to eliminate my vista?
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no risk as long as you don't touch the partitions on the HD. The recovery partition is at the end of the disk (last 3GiB of unused space), you should never touch that, and you'll be able to recover always.
The problem people has when installing ubuntu, is that they choose "automatic partitioning" and this takes the biggest unused space found on the HD which really is the recovery partition. If you want to install on the HD, you should create your partitions "Manually" and dont' use the last 3GiB of the HD, that's it.
pof said:
no risk as long as you don't touch the partitions on the HD. The recovery partition is at the end of the disk (last 3GiB of unused space), you should never touch that, and you'll be able to recover always.
The problem people has when installing ubuntu, is that they choose "automatic partitioning" and this takes the biggest unused space found on the HD which really is the recovery partition. If you want to install on the HD, you should create your partitions "Manually" and dont' use the last 3GiB of the HD, that's it.
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thx man! i will try this night. but you know.. if i make a disaster you must teach me step by step how to to recover my recovery partition.
ehehe
I've been busy as crap lately but still wanted to communicate my thoughts...as advised by one of my team members...
Once we have a new larger hard drive put into the Shift and have worked out all of the driver issues for XP and Linux, we can modify the recovery partition on the hard drive to recover three different OS's with all the drivers and components fully functional. I'm sure there are more than these two options but I'm just going to throw two of them out there:
Option 1:
Setup recovery partition to recover ONE of THREE OS's. Vista, XP or some distro of Linux. When the user goes into recovery, they can be presented with a menu saying something like #1: Recover Vista, #2: Recover XP, #3: Recover Linux.
Option 2:
For those that install multiple OS's and "dualboot"...we can go as far as getting it all setup with drivers then create an image so you can recover a multiboot setup or even make it the 4th option.
Maybe we can create two images one with each option above for different users. I myself would probably go with Option 2 even though I use VMWare. I wouldn't mind setting up Vista/XP/Linux to multiboot into the Shift so I can choose which OS. Then making a recovery partition based on this setup so if I screw things up it'll recover the entire thing.
Maybe we could even go as far as adding another capability to Option2 and do something so individual OS's within a multiboot environment are recovered without affecting the other OS's. You never know the possibilities with this.
Your thoughts are always welcome.
/me wants a Shift and/or Athena !
ltxda said:
I've been busy as crap lately but still wanted to communicate my thoughts...as advised by one of my team members...
Once we have a new larger hard drive put into the Shift and have worked out all of the driver issues for XP and Linux, we can modify the recovery partition on the hard drive to recover three different OS's with all the drivers and components fully functional. I'm sure there are more than these two options but I'm just going to throw two of them out there:
Option 1:
Setup recovery partition to recover ONE of THREE OS's. Vista, XP or some distro of Linux. When the user goes into recovery, they can be presented with a menu saying something like #1: Recover Vista, #2: Recover XP, #3: Recover Linux.
Option 2:
For those that install multiple OS's and "dualboot"...we can go as far as getting it all setup with drivers then create an image so you can recover a multiboot setup or even make it the 4th option.
Maybe we can create two images one with each option above for different users. I myself would probably go with Option 2 even though I use VMWare. I wouldn't mind setting up Vista/XP/Linux to multiboot into the Shift so I can choose which OS. Then making a recovery partition based on this setup so if I screw things up it'll recover the entire thing.
Maybe we could even go as far as adding another capability to Option2 and do something so individual OS's within a multiboot environment are recovered without affecting the other OS's. You never know the possibilities with this.
Your thoughts are always welcome.
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Your thoughts sounds nice for me. I ve installed xp, ubuntu and had to overwrite recovery partition in order to install vista properly again. I dream with the idea of having full control (be able to turn on/off wifi/bt) from ubuntu and xp.
Greetings.
Dani
lennysh said:
/me wants a Shift and/or Athena !
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hehehe hey there
cmonex said:
hehehe hey there
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lol!
ltns!
ltxda said:
I've been busy as crap lately but still wanted to communicate my thoughts...as advised by one of my team members...
Once we have a new larger hard drive put into the Shift and have worked out all of the driver issues for XP and Linux, we can modify the recovery partition on the hard drive to recover three different OS's with all the drivers and components fully functional. I'm sure there are more than these two options but I'm just going to throw two of them out there:
Option 1:
Setup recovery partition to recover ONE of THREE OS's. Vista, XP or some distro of Linux. When the user goes into recovery, they can be presented with a menu saying something like #1: Recover Vista, #2: Recover XP, #3: Recover Linux.
Option 2:
For those that install multiple OS's and "dualboot"...we can go as far as getting it all setup with drivers then create an image so you can recover a multiboot setup or even make it the 4th option.
Maybe we can create two images one with each option above for different users. I myself would probably go with Option 2 even though I use VMWare. I wouldn't mind setting up Vista/XP/Linux to multiboot into the Shift so I can choose which OS. Then making a recovery partition based on this setup so if I screw things up it'll recover the entire thing.
Maybe we could even go as far as adding another capability to Option2 and do something so individual OS's within a multiboot environment are recovered without affecting the other OS's. You never know the possibilities with this.
Your thoughts are always welcome.
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This all should be definatly possible the fun will just be getting the recovery stuff working right but I love the idea cause then we just get ppl to download a full disk that will image their drive and its all set to go
ltxda, I would like to order one Athena and one Shift for testing purposes please. Add a little Ubuntu Mobile on the side as well. O, and a large drink.
Ltxda you already know this but for everyone else as well please feel free to ignore Lennysh when he is being crazy
Hi all,
I don't know if my problem as already been solved but I didn't found anything.
At first, I have to say I installed windows 8 as principal operating system (I know, it's stupid...).
I used windows 8 without big problem since the deployment but today, after a bug, I reboot the PC and now I have just black screen with the message "operating system missing"... The system does not boot, just black screen with the message
Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem ?
(Sorry for my english)
you can put dev preview DVD or USB whatever you used to install.
and run the installation and then repair Windows 8 (if it detects a Windows installed). with system restore or maybe it will repair. if not you will have to refresh your win8.
also it can be (if you have more hard drives) that you aren't starting the one with Windows 8. so you can try and see in bios if thats the case. thats when i have seen this message.
Thanks for your answer.
When I run the pc, it doesn't launch anything, just the black screen. It's probably the bios but I can't do anything, just the message but I'm not allowed to do anything :-(
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Finally, the problem is quite solved.
When I have this message, by pushing ctrl+alt+suprr, if I'm enough fast, I can push F12 and choose wich part I want to run. Then I placed my W7 backup on CD and runned it.
It was not easy but W7 is successfull restored.
Of course, all my personal data were deleted...
But whe I reboot the PC, I've always the message "missing operating system", then I have to ctrl+alt+suprr and after F12, and then choose the hard drive, and the PC W7 boot.
It's not yet perfect but for the moment the PC works...
Thats exactly i told you. of course it changes between bios and motherboard. your problem is not your windows. its the priority of your harddrive.
I dont know what motherboard you have.
so i will find pictures to explain what you have to look for. because you didnt have to repair your Windows if thats the case. the problem its (like i mentioned) your harddrive priority.
so you go to your bios and look for the Boot section.
http://www.motherboards-reviews.com...ges/ASUS_M2N68-AM_PLUS_BIOS_boot_settings.jpg
if you go to Boot Device Priority, you can check if your harddrive is second (the one with your OS) and if you want your cd or usb to boot first if not you can leave it first.
http://motherboards-reviews.com/ASU...s/ASUS_M4N78-AM_BIOS_Boot_Device_Priority.jpg
something like this.
and if that part is right you have to go to Hard disk drives
http://www.laptops-battery.co.uk/images/maintain/bios-boot-hard-disk-drives-445x261.jpg
so there you have to check if your harddrive is first or the correct one. and ready... its probably this Hard disk devices thing. and then you don't have to use that method of changing manually which boots
Thanks for your help
I'm not at home for the moment. I'll try your method tomorrow or wednesday, I'll let you know, but thank you for the time you spent on my problem.
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Hello
I'm using Phoenix OS on dual boot with windows but I would like to single boot with Phoenix OS.
Anybody has an idea please
Thanks for attention and sorry, I'm better in french [emoji6]
Fraway
Hello. We are here now.
Phoenix OS [USB]
I have Linux,I've downloaded The iso of PhoenixOS (both version 1.1.3 & 1.2.1),Created a LiveUsb(USB*) installation
But when the installation is done,The USB** won't boot ,The PC skips it and boots from the Hard drive
Idk whether it's a grub error or not
Note:I've tried the grub 2 (Created a partition for it in the USB**),and I've skipped it the second time but the result was the same)
I accepted the Grub Boot loader option Both times
USB* = The Live USB
USB** = The USB where I want Phoenix OS To be installed
I had similar problems with the installation program, however, I solved it by downloading the iso file and "burning" that onto a USB stick with the help of another piece of software cold Rufus.
After that things went well, now writing this on my old HP Probook single booting PhoenixOS.
Hymn said:
I have Linux,I've downloaded The iso of PhoenixOS (both version 1.1.3 & 1.2.1),Created a LiveUsb(USB*) installation
But when the installation is done,The USB** won't boot ,The PC skips it and boots from the Hard drive
Idk whether it's a grub error or not
Note:I've tried the grub 2 (Created a partition for it in the USB**),and I've skipped it the second time but the result was the same)
I accepted the Grub Boot loader option Both times
USB* = The Live USB
USB** = The USB where I want Phoenix OS To be installed
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treris said:
I had similar problems with the installation program, however, I solved it by downloading the iso file and "burning" that onto a USB stick with the help of another piece of software cold Rufus.
After that things went well, now writing this on my old HP Probook single booting PhoenixOS.
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Ik Ik
I did the same thing,but when all is done,I get the "No Operating system found" error
Hymn said:
Ik Ik
I did the same thing,but when all is done,I get the "No Operating system found" error
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By all is done, do you mean after single boot installation onto the hard drive or after installation of the iso onto the usb?
If it's after installation onto the usb, then perhaps you should check whether rufus is formatting the usb to vfat format.
If it's after single boot installation onto the hard drive, had that problem as well, found out that in order for grub2 to work on single boot machines you actually have to make a boot/grub partition next to the normal partition. I was not used to that from other linux installations so I didn't do that as first and got nowhere. After reading somewhere that grub2 needs a separate partition in this case, I reformatted the hard drive in my laptop into two partitions:
sda1: size 350 MB, bootable and vfat -> basically just for grub, the size may be overkill, but on today's hard drives, who cares right?
sda2: size (the rest of the hard drive), ext4 ->all other files and personal data
Then during install use both the grub2 and grub installation option (to sda1) and things should work I think.
Hope this helps!
treris said:
By all is done, do you mean after single boot installation onto the hard drive or after installation of the iso onto the usb?
If it's after installation onto the usb, then perhaps you should check whether rufus is formatting the usb to vfat format.
If it's after single boot installation onto the hard drive, had that problem as well, found out that in order for grub2 to work on single boot machines you actually have to make a boot/grub partition next to the normal partition. I was not used to that from other linux installations so I didn't do that as first and got nowhere. After reading somewhere that grub2 needs a separate partition in this case, I reformatted the hard drive in my laptop into two partitions:
sda1: size 350 MB, bootable and vfat -> basically just for grub, the size may be overkill, but on today's hard drives, who cares right?
sda2: size (the rest of the hard drive), ext4 ->all other files and personal data
Then during install use both the grub2 and grub installation option (to sda1) and things should work I think.
Hope this helps!
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thanks man it really works!!
Still Missing OS
Hey treris,
First of all, thanks for the excellent info that you've been providing for the single boot Phoenix OS install.
I'm just comfortable enough with computers to get into trouble, but I'm still having an issue with getting Phoenix to boot despite following the steps you indicated. No apparent probs with using rufus. I used Gparted to create 2 partitions on the comp, a 350MB for grub (used manage flags to set it as boot) and the other partition in ext 4. Ran through the install process and while the USB was inserted, no problem, but rebooting without it resulted in the MISSING OS error.
Now, in Gparted I noticed that the 350MB partition (sda20) name is showing as ROOT-B and the ext4 partition (sda23) is named GRUB. As a demonstration of my lack of knowledge in this, it seems that the drive with grub on it should be named grub by the system and not root-b.
Any idea as to where I screwed this up?
Thanks for any help!
treris said:
By all is done, do you mean after single boot installation onto the hard drive or after installation of the iso onto the usb?
If it's after installation onto the usb, then perhaps you should check whether rufus is formatting the usb to vfat format.
If it's after single boot installation onto the hard drive, had that problem as well, found out that in order for grub2 to work on single boot machines you actually have to make a boot/grub partition next to the normal partition. I was not used to that from other linux installations so I didn't do that as first and got nowhere. After reading somewhere that grub2 needs a separate partition in this case, I reformatted the hard drive in my laptop into two partitions:
sda1: size 350 MB, bootable and vfat -> basically just for grub, the size may be overkill, but on today's hard drives, who cares right?
sda2: size (the rest of the hard drive), ext4 ->all other files and personal data
Then during install use both the grub2 and grub installation option (to sda1) and things should work I think.
Hope this helps!
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Hi SWAMPISH,
It seems like Grub is installed in both partitions, not just in the one dedicated to it. How many partitions do you have in total on that hard drive that you end up with partitions called sda20 and sda23?
My guess would be that somewhere during installation things got mixed up and Grub was installed to the wrong partition meaning it cannot find the boot image. The fact that the partition meant for Grub is now called ROOT and the partition meant for the OS is now GRUB kinda indicates that as well.
I would advise to reinstall PhoenixOS using the installer, you'll wont need gparted for this, and then make sure you reformat both sda20 and sda23 and double check whether Grub goes to sda20 and Phoenix is installed on sda23.
Let me know if this helps.
PS are you installing the current stable version of PhoenixOS (with Android 5.1) or the beta version of PhoenixOS (with Android 7.1)?
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Hey treris,
First of all, thanks for the excellent info that you've been providing for the single boot Phoenix OS install.
I'm just comfortable enough with computers to get into trouble, but I'm still having an issue with getting Phoenix to boot despite following the steps you indicated. No apparent probs with using rufus. I used Gparted to create 2 partitions on the comp, a 350MB for grub (used manage flags to set it as boot) and the other partition in ext 4. Ran through the install process and while the USB was inserted, no problem, but rebooting without it resulted in the MISSING OS error.
Now, in Gparted I noticed that the 350MB partition (sda20) name is showing as ROOT-B and the ext4 partition (sda23) is named GRUB. As a demonstration of my lack of knowledge in this, it seems that the drive with grub on it should be named grub by the system and not root-b.
Any idea as to where I screwed this up?
Thanks for any help!
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Eureka!
Well, I used the below suggestions and ran into similar issues. So I focused on the partition set up. I removed all partitions, used Gparted to create a partition directory as I BELIEVE that there was an MBR issue. Created 2 partitions (sda1 and sda2 set up exactly as you had indicated in earlier posts), installed both grubs on sda1 and all else on sda2 and BOOM! After installation, removal of USB and restart, got the prompt to run Phoenix OS at startup and it works! I'm so happy!
While frustrating at times, I learned a whole lot more than I bargained for about partitions, booting processes and more!
And Phoenix is so clean and fast on my crappy Aspire One netbook with just 1 GB of RAM!!!
Mega thanks for your help!
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Hi SWAMPISH,
It seems like Grub is installed in both partitions, not just in the one dedicated to it. How many partitions do you have in total on that hard drive that you end up with partitions called sda20 and sda23?
My guess would be that somewhere during installation things got mixed up and Grub was installed to the wrong partition meaning it cannot find the boot image. The fact that the partition meant for Grub is now called ROOT and the partition meant for the OS is now GRUB kinda indicates that as well.
I would advise to reinstall PhoenixOS using the installer, you'll wont need gparted for this, and then make sure you reformat both sda20 and sda23 and double check whether Grub goes to sda20 and Phoenix is installed on sda23.
Let me know if this helps.
PS are you installing the current stable version of PhoenixOS (with Android 5.1) or the beta version of PhoenixOS (with Android 7.1)?
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Glad you have it working now! Yes, it's quite amazing how fast old(er) laptops can be when they're using Phoenix OS. They really become useful again.
SWAMPISH said:
Well, I used the below suggestions and ran into similar issues. So I focused on the partition set up. I removed all partitions, used Gparted to create a partition directory as I BELIEVE that there was an MBR issue. Created 2 partitions (sda1 and sda2 set up exactly as you had indicated in earlier posts), installed both grubs on sda1 and all else on sda2 and BOOM! After installation, removal of USB and restart, got the prompt to run Phoenix OS at startup and it works! I'm so happy!
While frustrating at times, I learned a whole lot more than I bargained for about partitions, booting processes and more!
And Phoenix is so clean and fast on my crappy Aspire One netbook with just 1 GB of RAM!!!
Mega thanks for your help!
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I have been reading through these posts about single boot install. I have tried various ways to install phoenix os. I have a lenovo yoga 900 wiht 16gbs of ram. I tried messing with different partion setups, trying where to install grub and grub 2. everytime I install it after reboot, a blank screen comes up with tGrub on it. Everything runs fine when I run it off a usb flash drive. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. Could someone enlighten me on this?
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I made the phoneix os installation and the system turned on. However, when the PC is turned off and then back on, the bios screen is turned on and not loaded. I could not understand the problem. (Single boot)
SyriuS1 said:
I made the phoneix os installation and the system turned on. However, when the PC is turned off and then back on, the bios screen is turned on and not loaded. I could not understand the problem. (Single boot)
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Are you sure you installed Grub correctly? It sounds like Grub may be missing.
Did you set up a separate partition for Grub?
Hello. I'm sorry for possibly taking over an existing thread but this is an install to the hard drive. I should preface and say I'm a noob. I've rooted a few phones and used a few mods on Skyrim (from PC to my PS3). Reading through the thread though I realize how much I am clueless of. So I downloaded from the website, it created a 32gb image and then rebooted. Here my problems are the same as I had with trying (and failing at RemixOS). First if left to it's own devices my laptop will simply not load any OS. It goes to what looks like DOS maybe? However while the _ thingie is blinking it accepts no input. Hard rebooting and going into boot manager, if I touch anything it freezes. Meaning I can't select Phoenix OS from the options. I'm at a loss.
this should be my computer info https://ibb.co/hKsXSv
And this should be the screen i can't get past https://ibb.co/hOM3Za except instead of RemixOS it's Phoenix OS
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Hello. I'm sorry for possibly taking over an existing thread but this is an install to the hard drive. I should preface and say I'm a noob. I've rooted a few phones and used a few mods on Skyrim (from PC to my PS3). Reading through the thread though I realize how much I am clueless of. So I downloaded from the website, it created a 32gb image and then rebooted. Here my problems are the same as I had with trying (and failing at RemixOS). First if left to it's own devices my laptop will simply not load any OS. It goes to what looks like DOS maybe? However while the _ thingie is blinking it accepts no input. Hard rebooting and going into boot manager, if I touch anything it freezes. Meaning I can't select Phoenix OS from the options. I'm at a loss.
this should be my computer info https://ibb.co/hKsXSv
And this should be the screen i can't get past https://ibb.co/hOM3Za except instead of RemixOS it's Phoenix OS
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Try a USB keyboard, if you have one.
bg260 said:
Try a USB keyboard, if you have one.
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Check. For a second I thought I had something but alas the boot menu screen freezes with any keystroke... Well tab or the arrow keys...or f6/f5
TgirlValentine said:
Hello. I'm sorry for possibly taking over an existing thread but this is an install to the hard drive. I should preface and say I'm a noob. I've rooted a few phones and used a few mods on Skyrim (from PC to my PS3). Reading through the thread though I realize how much I am clueless of. So I downloaded from the website, it created a 32gb image and then rebooted. Here my problems are the same as I had with trying (and failing at RemixOS). First if left to it's own devices my laptop will simply not load any OS. It goes to what looks like DOS maybe? However while the _ thingie is blinking it accepts no input. Hard rebooting and going into boot manager, if I touch anything it freezes. Meaning I can't select Phoenix OS from the options. I'm at a loss.
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I found that some machines (especially older ones) won't boot the 64bit version, even though they are 64bit machines, but they will boot the 32bit version.
TNTPro said:
I found that some machines (especially older ones) won't boot the 64bit version, even though they are 64bit machines, but they will boot the 32bit version.
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I'm pretty sure I've got the 32bit though I suppose it won't hurt to remove what I have and ensure I did indeed click on 32. I'm pretty grated with the whole thing. I'm trying to decide if I blame windows or Compaq lol. I noticed when going through the stuff about my machine that it shipped with Vista. Now I currently have windows 7 but could that be an issue?
TNTPro said:
I found that some machines (especially older ones) won't boot the 64bit version, even though they are 64bit machines, but they will boot the 32bit version.
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I redownloaded the 32bit version using the downloader tool, saved to hard drive. When I pull up the boot manager after rebooting it still freezes when I press a key. It will still lost windows 7 if I don't touch anything.