Dual Booting Win 7 & Android x86

2011-08-10 16:35:44

#1

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6596|Atlanta, Georgia

I've got my laptop already installed with Win 7 and i've shrunk my HD and allocated some free space.
I used this tutorial here.

http://www.android-x86.org/documents/installhowto

I do everything as instructed by i just end up with black screen. Android wont boot. It's like it goes through the procedures but wont full boot. Any idea's?

2011-08-10 17:00:02

#2

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6777|...

which partition is windows on?

(i also have to ask why lol)

2011-08-10 17:12:17

#3

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6596|Atlanta, Georgia

I have 3 partitions

1 - System Reserved
2 - C Drive for my laptop shit
3 - Then random 20GB's listed as drive A for android

I just wanted to try it out. Im too poor to buy a tablet so i'm gonna go the poor man route and play around on it with my laptop.

2011-08-10 17:14:49

#4

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6777|...

not to side track helping with the issue, but why not try it in a vm first (i.e. virtualbox)? Once you full screen it with a bridged connection you would never know it was not the only thing on there.

2011-08-10 17:16:07

#5

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6596|Atlanta, Georgia

I'm gonna have to google that sir then get back to you. Does it basically run a virtual OS while your on Win 7 or something?

2011-08-10 17:19:41

#6

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6752

yes. i'm running XP virtually on win 7. windows 7 leverages your cpu's ability to run things virtually.

2011-08-10 17:21:33

#7

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6596|Atlanta, Georgia

You think that will fix my problem with the Android OS not booting up?

2011-08-10 17:23:01

#8

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6752

no, you'd have to install microsoft virtual pc first.

2011-08-10 17:24:06

#9

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6777|...

NeXuS wrote:
You think that will fix my problem with the Android OS not booting up?

No but you could recreate it the issue.

13urnzz wrote:
no, you'd have to install microsoft virtual pc first.

Sorry but VirtualPC is utter shit compared to vmware desktop or virtual box (which is free as well). Shame they never got it right.

2011-08-10 17:28:08

#10

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6752

jsnipy wrote:
Sorry but VirtualPC is utter shit compared to vmware desktop or virtual box (which is free as well). Shame they never got it right.

i believe you, but virtual pc came pre-installed on our dell boxes. i never configured vmware outside of a server, or tried virtual box.

2011-08-10 17:34:54

#11

13urnzz: Banned; +5,830|6752

besides, under anything but Micro$oft virtual pc, you'd need a separate key for the XP install. no big deal, until you look at 250 machines.

d/l virtual box now, i've got a couple of machines i could try it on.

2011-08-10 17:35:19

#12

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6755|so randum

man those virtual pc's

Small hourglass island
Always raining and foggy
Use an umbrella

2011-08-10 17:54:10

#13

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6777|...

yeah whatever you go with its a good thing for trying out stuff without having to meddle with your base hardware.

2011-08-10 18:15:35

#14

NeXuS: Shock it till ya know it; +375|6596|Atlanta, Georgia

I like Virtual machine. Really easy to use. I got it working on that. But it's a shit OS to play around with on pc I know i wasn't expecting perfection.

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