Before I moved up to the good stuff my first tablet was a allwinner A10 and after a little messing around I had a toucscreen linux distro that I could boot right into. I know tegra is a diffrent beast all together but is their any info about getting linux running on this? I'd prefer not to chroot in but a real boot enviroment if possible. I have looked at linux "apps" but just a host of problems with it running either debian or ubuntu
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OK, i'm hearing all the time about different ROM's being put on phones like cyanogenmod and many others. even some people dual booting. is it possible to dual boot with ubuntu and an android ROM? if you're wondering i have the HP touchsmart (has a touchscreen) would it be possible to boot into android. i've done alot of research but can't find anyone that has done it or has a guide. would it be possible to load it into my grub or are the files entirely different. i've seen people put ubuntu on phones why not android on my laptop. (oh and not the SDK...its too slow to be seriously used and then i'm still using it as more of a virtual machine than an OS)
google search Chromium OS , Beta build , lolz , looks like android
Chromium OS is not android in the slightest!
If you want to play with Android on your PC, there are two ways you can run it:
A) Install the emulator - this is pretty slow, but gives you a phone-in-a-box you can play with
http://www.androidguys.com/2010/12/15/android-emulator/
B) Use Android x86 - a port of Android that runs on PCs
http://www.android-x86.org/
(Grab the generic iso from here: http://android-x86.moonman.dk/old/)
Now either burn that to a cd, and boot from that, create a bootable usb stick with http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ or install it in a VM like VirtualBox
I actually really like the A500 as is (better than the w500 and Viewpad), but I really need something I can run Linux on, and has the portability of a tablet.
Is there a way to boot these from a flash-drive, or to otherwise install an O/S on the, er, drive?
Anyone? Bueller?
You would need a custom bootloader, and since we don't really have direct access for a custom recovery, there's not a whole lot you can do. On top of that, you would need all the right drivers for the hardware, which you probably won't find in any off-the-shelf distro.
Android is based on the Linux kernel, is there something you really need Linux for that Android can't do?
There is probably a Chroot option - there usually is for Android devices. This means that the distro will use the existing Linux kernel and its modules. However, this will of course mean that resource will still be used by Android as well as your distro and that you will access it via an Android VNC client. Check the Xoom forums, I am sure there is a tutorial there which should work here.
I really want a native dual boot setup. I really hope this bootloader gets hacked to pieces.
EDIT - You could get the W500 and hope that the ANDROID x86 crowd get Honeycomb up 'n' running. However, since the sourcecode still hasn't been released a tablet worthy build may be some time away. I doubt Honeycomb source will ever be released. They will probably just skip it and release Icecream Sandwich!
EDIT EDIT - follow this thread - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987740&page=7. This should work on all Tegra SOC based devices.
I am familiar with a couple of different ways of CHROOTing linux img or ext* partitions into Android. However, since this is on top of Android, we are losing alot of performance. There is also a barrier for ARP spoofing/poisoning from that CHROOT environment.
Does anyone know a way to "flash" ubuntu to the streak? or even how to create a ROM that ONLY boots the CHROOTed image?
With Multiboot available on the Nexus 4, is it possible to somehow Boot into a Linux distro?
I am aware of the chroot solutions, but what i am searching for is a way to boot a distro from the internal sdcard.
Curious why you would? I guess better control and privacy but does a phone distribution beyond Android even exist?
Several distros support the ARM architecture.
And phone functions?
I want to install Arch Linux to a Motorola Droid X. I am not on Verizon, therefore I do not need it for android. I am a Linux enthusiast who would like a small Linux PC that can be carried from place to place and then docked when I need to use Linux. I have a laptop and desktop that are dual-booted with Windows and Linux (Desktop has Manjaro & Laptop has Ubuntu). I would greatly appreciate a guide. I'm also fairly certain the ArchLinuxArm V8 Generic image would work but I am not certain.
Might be possible, not sure. Haven't looked into it