[Remix OS for PC] topoldo:
Hi all.

I decide to post this guide after checking and rechecking internet to find a procedure to install Remix OS (and Android x86 versions higher than 4.4.4) on a eeePC in a reproducible manner. In fact I tried many times and, as I had mixed results, I did not understand why sometimes I was successfull and sometimes not.

Today I was able to provide rationale for this behaviour and now I report my findings hoping to be useful to someone.

Requirements

Asus netbook eeePC

I tested successfully this technique on:

eeePC 1000HE with N280 CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 160 GB HDD

eeePC 1005HA with N280 CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 160 GB HDD

RemixOS 32 bit version 3.x (or Android-x86 version 5.x and higher)

https://www.fosshub.com/Remix-OS.html/Remix_OS_for_PC_Android_M_32bit_B2016101201.zip

Gparted Live

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-0.26.1-5-i686.iso

A program to create bootable USB stick. For example:

unetbootin

Two USB sticks

Procedure

Create a bootable USB stick containing RemixOS 3.x 32bit following one of many tutorials you can find all over the internet. The easiest way is to use RemixOS for PC Installation Tool program which is given together to RemixOS when you download it. A good alternative (which I prefer) is unetbootin.

Create a second bootable USB stick containing gparted-live. The procedure is very similiar to that used to create the RemixOS booting stick USB and here you can also use unetbootin.

Put the booting stick USB containing gparted-live into an USB port of your eeePC and boot from it following one on the tutorials explaining how to boot an eeePC from an USB stick.

Launch Gparted program and, first of all, delete every partition on the eeePC HDD.

Then, from the GParted main menu, select "Device" > "Create Partition Table".

Here you find 2 possibilities: msods and gpt.

Select "msdos", NOT "gpt"!!! This is the first and more important trick to apply!

After this, use gparted-live to format the entire eeePC HDD using ext4 filesystem.

After having applied this filesystem to all the eeePC HDD, exit from gparted-live and shutdown your PC.

Remove gparted-live USB stick from your eeePC and insert the RemixOS USB stick.

Switch on the eeePC again, booting from the USB stick containing RemixOS, this time.

When the program asks how to install RemixOS, choose "Resident mode" and immedtately after press the "Tab" key on the keyboard to modify the default parameters of the installation.

The original ones are:

/kernel initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.selinux=permissive quiet SERIAL=random logo.showlogo=1 SRC= DATA= CREATE_DATA_IMG=1

You need to substitute them with:

/kernel initrd=/initrd.img root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.selinux=permissive quiet SERIAL=random logo.showlogo=1 SRC= DATA= INSTALL=1

When the program asks a partition to install RemixOS (or Android-x86), select sda1

Please, Do NOT use the item "Create/Modify partitions" of the menu!

This is the second important trick because otherwise the Partition Table changes to GPT from msdos and nothing works anymore!

On the following screen select "Do not format" (the partition) as already formatted by gparted!

Install boot loader GRUB and skip the installation of EFI GRUB2.

Accept to install /system directory as read-write.

As the last step of the installation, select to reboot the eeePC.

While the system is rebooting, remove the USB stick so the device reboots from the internal HDD.

When the first screen appears, it is a black & white one, and reports that the GRUB used is the version 1.1.5.

Below a menu with 4 choices appears. They are:

Remix OS 2016-10-12

Remix OS 2016-10-12 (Debug Mode)

Remix OS 2016-10-12 (Debug nomodeset)

Remix OS 2016-10-12 (Debug Video=LVDS-1:d)

the first being the default one which starts automatically in few seconds.

Wait quite a little bit (about 10-20 minutes) :p while a white "RemixOS" logo blinks on a black background.

After this long waiting, Remix OS appears and you can configure it.

In particular as reported by maxiclo here:

http://xdaforums.com/remix/remix-os/bug-currupted-usb-drive-waring-severity-t3472170

there is a a severe issue with RemixOS clean installation on native EXT4 partition using INSTALL=1 (ie the installation on a HDD without other OS).

In fact RemixOS identifies a "Corrupted USB drive" and Android propose to fix it formatting the USB.

If you execute the suggested fix, everything will be damaged and you cannot reboot your eeePC in RemixOS anymore!

So, go to Settings -> RemixOS -> Experimental features

Deselect the option "Enable disk partition mount"

The system ask for a reboot: execute it.

This is the third important trick to use.

That'all folks!