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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

Can the recovery partition be changed/rebuilt?

Hi all,
I'm getting a Shift this afternoon. The recovery partition is in Italian so I assume that's where this shift is from. I'm an American and I'm in China, so Italian isn't a great match for either me or the languages we speak here.
My friend who owns this Shift originally tried English Vista as well as Win7 but he said he could never get the Windows side to talk to the 3G network from the cellular side except when he just restored the system from the recovery partition.
Obviously there are some driver issues that I think he was running into, but it's fair to say that the hardware in the Shift is less than ubiquitous.
I'd like to convert this used Shift over to a full English setup and replace the recovery partition with one from an En Shift. Is this doable?
Rob

I presume you would follow these instructions to get Windows 7 on.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=513638
If your on about removing the recovery partition, i presume you could fdisk the hard drive into one partition. Doing this would erase all of your data.

Well, putting Win7 on was no problem.
My question, however stated, was more about how to modify the recovery partition so that future "recovery" actions would install the system that I wanted, instead of the Italian language version of vista that came with my Shift originally.
Another possibility would be if someone has used a harddisk tool to clone their recovery partition (perhaps for an EN-US) for other language versions of the system. This would still be a stock Vista partition from HTC, but at least then I'd be able to use an English version.
Although I can understand the Italian (just because of all the Latin roots used in English), I'd just prefer an English system for a certain "comfort level."
Rob

I remember reading somewhere that the recovery partition is 'hidden' somewhat from windows, and the only way to access it is with Linux.
I think what you would have to do is:
1)Find someone with an english Shift with the original Vista recovery partion
2)Get them to install Win7
3)Get them to remove their Shifts HDD and put it into a computer with Linux
4)Get them to Ghost an image of the drive
5)Get them to send the image to you, or you send your shifts hdd to them and they will transfer the image for you.
This sounds ike a long winded way of doing it. It would help if you had somone you knew and you could see face to face to do it.
When I get my shift I would be more than happy to help you!
Ok, anyone got a cheap Shift for sale lol

[Q] Disaster - need help...

I got a copy of Android - I think its 1.6 - running on my laptop - and it seemed to work ok and be stable so I wanted to put it onto the machine permanantly.
Trouble is its decided that nothing else on the machine exists and I can't get back into vista whatever I try
It boots into something called grub loader and the only two options are the normal boot and a sort of safe mode - that lists drivers much like the old one for Windows 95/98 where you could y/n each one...
I really need help to get vista back again since there is stuff I really need like internet banking that I don't think I can do any other way (to be fair I have yet to try)
Thanks in advance
Jemma

Please tell me you partitioned off your hard drive before doing this?
If not then its a reinstall I guess, which isn't to bad as it allows you to install a decent copy of windows such as XP

That quite simply isn't an option - I was told that there is a way of solving it by using a windows CD or boot disk to reload the MBR - I was also told that the file running GRUB can be edited to find windows.
The problem is I don't have another machine and I am on state benefits - I need this computer up and running and I need access to my documents.
I can't seem to mount anything in android - and as the only option is 'format sd card' I don't really want to take it..
Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Jemmauk said:
That quite simply isn't an option - I was told that there is a way of solving it by using a windows CD or boot disk to reload the MBR - I was also told that the file running GRUB can be edited to find windows.
The problem is I don't have another machine and I am on state benefits - I need this computer up and running and I need access to my documents.
I can't seem to mount anything in android - and as the only option is 'format sd card' I don't really want to take it..
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
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Well thanks for the sob story but what does being on benefits have to do with anything?
Anyway simply set your pc bios to boot from cd first, insert disk and boot up. From there you will be asked do you want to install or repair. Choose repair.
I'm unsure of the next step because I don't use Vista *spits* but if you can get to recovery console then you can run fixmbr from the prompt and also there is a boot manager that can fix your boot sector.
Alternatively you could from a dos prompt delete the 1.6 folders and rewrite the msconfig to open windows only.
There is also the root of trying the f8 safe mode boot into admin account and rewrite the msconfig from with windows if accessible from f8 safe.
But hell I ain't anyone else but I guess my 24 years in the business of building custom machine and my extensive knowledge of windows xp and below means nowt? Maybe try being a little less dismissive next time hey?
Add me on gmail - [email protected] if you want me to help you sort it out faster than we can here

Did you create partitions before installing android? if not then windows doesnt exist anymore, which is why grub didnt automatically add it to the list of things to boot (mine always listed everything, but sometimes it doesnt do that automatically)

this happend to me to. I had to use I linux live cd to delete the linux partition. and fix the mbr.
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Can't install Windows 10 Technical Preview

I can't install Windows 10 Technical Preview on my Samsung RV509 laptop (Core i5 and 6Gigs of RAM). I tried doing a clean install, and once I boot from the flash stick It gets stuck on the Windows logo and the loading dots doesn't appear, so I tried to do an upgrade from Windows 7 and once it restarts it gets stuck on the windows logo and doesn't load after that (I tried both 32 and 64bit versions) then i get the error 0xC1900101-0x20017. So I tried to install it inside a virtual machine and i tried another machine,and it did install just fine. I tried everything I can from trying to launch the setup from the command prompt but still once it restarts it gets stuck on the windows logo. I'm not sure what do I need to do to get it to install and boot. I've tried with every single build since the insider program started till 9926.
I would really appreciate any help in this matter. Thank you.

I think you didn't really tried a clean install, since you wrote that you've tried to upgrade later. Clean install means you erase all traces of previous system installation. Also, it's good to delete all partitions. Maybe you're hard disk is MBR formatted and Windows 10 requires GPT (just a suggestion, I'm not sure about that).
Secondly, are you trying an UEFI install? I've had Win10 for a couple of months now but I remember having problems with starting UEFI installation from USB stick. To do this, you have to change partition layout on usb stick to GPT, then make new primary partition, format it to FAT32 and copy all files from install iso to usb stick. Then you can start your install in UEFI mode and I think this will help you. Just remember to delete all partitions and let Windows create new partition layout for you, this way it will create EFI partition.
If the installer says it can't create partitions in UEFI mode, you will have to change partition layout to GPT by yourselft. You can put your hdd in a PC and use a Windows based tool (search google) or maybe some Linux LiveCD will let you do that without removing your hdd.

All I did was just use demon tools and install over my w7. It installed as Uefi. Don't like it and w10 gave me an option on restart to roll back my system. I did and went back to w7.

You shouldn't use Daemon Tools to install Windows from an ISO. If Windows needs to reference a file inside the Install.wim folder on the disc for any reason, that copy will fail as the disc it's using is not a physical disc, but a virtual one that the new installation has no knowledge of. The best way to install Windows from an ISO is to copy the ISO to a flash drive or to the local hard disk and run setup that way, or use Rufus to create a bootable USB media for installing. That could be related to your error codes.

Thank you sanshinron for your reply. I always do a clean install for windows, the only reason that i tried to upgrade is that the setup didn't even load when booting from a USB stick (stuck on the windows logo). The USB stick was created using Microsoft's "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool". The same stick loads fine on other PCs. I will try to do what you suggested with the USB stick and give it another try.
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I think you didn't really tried a clean install, since you wrote that you've tried to upgrade later. Clean install means you erase all traces of previous system installation. Also, it's good to delete all partitions. Maybe you're hard disk is MBR formatted and Windows 10 requires GPT (just a suggestion, I'm not sure about that).
Secondly, are you trying an UEFI install? I've had Win10 for a couple of months now but I remember having problems with starting UEFI installation from USB stick. To do this, you have to change partition layout on usb stick to GPT, then make new primary partition, format it to FAT32 and copy all files from install iso to usb stick. Then you can start your install in UEFI mode and I think this will help you. Just remember to delete all partitions and let Windows create new partition layout for you, this way it will create EFI partition.
If the installer says it can't create partitions in UEFI mode, you will have to change partition layout to GPT by yourselft. You can put your hdd in a PC and use a Windows based tool (search google) or maybe some Linux LiveCD will let you do that without removing your hdd.
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try https://rufus.akeo.ie/ for the usb install

onebyside said:
try https://rufus.akeo.ie/ for the usb install
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I tried both Rufus and ISO2Disk to make the USB stick GPT, but still i'm having the same issue with the setup not loading.

toulan said:
I tried both Rufus and ISO2Disk to make the USB stick GPT, but still i'm having the same issue with the setup not loading.
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I installed UEFI without a problem, is there a reason your set on GPT?

I tried everything with the USB drive and it just installs fine on other pcs. I guess this could be because of hardware not supported yet by Microsoft in the current windows 10 builds. I found many people having the same issue. I just hoped there could be a fix to get the installer to start

I encountered same boot-hang problem when clean installing Win 8.1, and Win 10 shouldn't be different. My solutions:
Post-install boot-hang: The hang at logo boot happens when I don't format the install-to partitition with Win 8.1 installer (I normally partition/format using another tool, to skip the redundant WinRE partition that Win creates). Formatting with the installer allows the boot to complete (you can still keep the original partitioning).
Pre-install boot-hang: Some PCs are idiosyncratic with USB boot; likewise, some USB sticks are "different" from others. I found that using DiskPart to partition & format the USB stick (like a HDD) works when Rufus & straight formatting wouldn't. This, admittedly from a small sample set of one particular problematic combo. Simpler is just try to use different USB sticks.

toulan said:
then i get the error 0xC1900101-0x20017
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This error indicates an update issue.
Try this:
- Ingersoll mini tool partition wizard
- check your disk type
If it's GPT,
- download minitool portable ISO and burn on USB with UUI.
- boot to the application and convert GPT to MBR
- Format the C: partition or wherever the previous windows was installed
- then overwrite it with win10
If it's UEFI change it from the bios. Turn off secure boot and everything.
Try and let me know.

Is there Windows 10 for Nokia Lumia 625?

Tiash420 said:
This error indicates an update issue.
Try this:
- Ingersoll mini tool partition wizard
- check your disk type
If it's GPT,
- download minitool portable ISO and burn on USB with UUI.
- boot to the application and convert GPT to MBR
- Format the C: partition or wherever the previous windows was installed
- then overwrite it with win10
If it's UEFI change it from the bios. Turn off secure boot and everything.
Try and let me know.
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After using the minitool partition wizard i found out that it was already MBR.

feherneoh said:
Does that pc have Win8.1 installed with UEFI?
If so, connect installer drive, go to shutdown menu, hold shift, press restart
Then select Use device => UEFI USB
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Tried it, but still the same issue.

Then turn off safe boot and try format the whole disk and start Windows installation from scratch?
Only if you want Windows 10 badly and are ready to sacrifice your data.
Caution: This 'might' work. No guarantees.

Tiash420 said:
Then turn off safe boot and try format the whole disk and start Windows installation from scratch?
Only if you want Windows 10 badly and are ready to sacrifice your data.
Caution: This 'might' work. No guarantees.
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Tried it, but it didn't work. I think this could be an issue with a hardware that is not supported yet by the preview. I guess i'll have to wait for that to change in next builds.

toulan said:
Tried it, but it didn't work. I think this could be an issue with a hardware that is not supported yet by the preview. I guess i'll have to wait for that to change in next builds.
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That might be it cause it's a preview and they sure are known for this kinda issue

Tried build 10041 and still same issue.

toulan said:
Tried build 10041 and still same issue.
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My Laptop is SAMSUNG RV509 but with intel core i3 1st Generation and 2 GB of RAM inside
And I have the same problem with you when trying to install Windows 10 Technical Preview even with it's latest version just like you, get stuck at begin of instalation process, Windows logo appear without any waiting animation (circle of dots), and nothing happen after that.
Just like you, I'm trying install it so many time and so many way such as update latest version of BIOS, but nothing change.
So, if you have a solution for our laptop, please take your time to guide me.
"Sorry if any inconvenience come to your attention with my English writing skill"

shinstar123 said:
My Laptop is SAMSUNG RV509 but with intel core i3 1st Generation and 2 GB of RAM inside
And I have the same problem with you when trying to install Windows 10 Technical Preview even with it's latest version just like you, get stuck at begin of instalation process, Windows logo appear without any waiting animation (circle of dots), and nothing happen after that.
Just like you, I'm trying install it so many time and so many way such as update latest version of BIOS, but nothing change.
So, if you have a solution for our laptop, please take your time to guide me.
"Sorry if any inconvenience come to your attention with my English writing skill"
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Of course, once i find a solution i will post it here, so far no luck.

Phoenix OS Single boot

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.
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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)?
SWAMPISH said:
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!
treris said:
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

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.
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.