If you want to install android-x86 on your old machine or virtual machine for testing and trial purposes or on a brand new machine.
- At the beginning of the installation,
Enter
Advanced Options Enter
Auto_Installation... in the Advanced OptionsEnter
Yes
to the window that appears- When installation completed
Reboot
to system - When the GRUB screen appears, to avoid Auto Boot, use the up-down arrow keys to avoid it and press the
E
key to edit the top option (Android-x86 X.0-r2) - Select the first boot (kernel) entry and press
E
key to edit again - Using the left arrow key, go to the part that says
quiet
and delete it and replace it withnomodeset xforcevesa
- When finished press
Enter
and pressB
key to boot to system - When the android logo appears on the screen, press
Alt
+F1
- Enter these commands to make the configuration we made in the GRUB menu permanent:
# mkdir /mnr/sda
# mount /dev/block/sda1 /mnt/sda/
# vi /mnt/sda/grub/menu.lst
- Do the same process as we did in step 7, find the 'quiet' section in the file and change it to 'nomodeset xforcevesa'.
- Save (press
ESC
and type:x
andEnter
in the vi editor), exit and typereboot
That's all..