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The How to Install page has issues and workarounds for VMware, but there is a very important issue not written.

Open TheGamerKing561 opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

I was looking at the how to install page and I noticed that it has a section that has an issue with VMware (which is about uing IDE, not the default SCSI), but there is another problem which is that when booting in VMware, it will be stuck at a terminal. If my explanation to how to fix it isn't good, there is a video saying ho to fix it.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pet4LZnZhDU. To fix this and boot Android, you had to edit the GRUB menu file by restarting to Debug mode, enter the command "mount -o remount,rw /mnt" then change the directory to /mnt by entering the commant "cd /mnt", then "cd grub". You should be in "/mnt/grub". Now, you need to enter the commant "vi menu.lst", go to the line that starts with "kernel" and the line up begins with "title Android-x86". On the kernel line, you need to go to the end of the line, press A on your keyboard, press the spacebar once, and then enter "nomodeset xforcevesa". After doing all of this, you have to exit and save changes by pressing shift+semicolon to get a colon and enter "wq" then press enter. When you exit, enter the command "reboot -f". This will restart the VM and boot into Android. If my explanation isn't good, there is a video saying how to fix it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pet4LZnZhDU. Thanks!

TheGamerKing561 avatar Jun 20 '23 13:06 TheGamerKing561