[Thinkpad Tablet General] joesnose:
I have managed to boot ubuntu successfully from usb. I have not installed just ran a live session. There was no sound, no touch and no internal wireless though a wireless usb stick worked fine.

https://youtu.be/KmDWoKvqodk

Sorry about the crappy video! It is slow to boot, probably because of the useless usb stick. I used. Also a powered hub was a must.

I also tried booting a windows 10 winpe img. It started loading but failed with bluescreen. This also happened with a windows to go usb stick that boots fine on my other machines. Problem seems to be with bios, have tried many things but nothing seemed to help. The error was...

ACPI_BIOS_ERROR

All versions of linux that I have successfully booted have no sound, touchscreen, screen rotation.

Also the ubuntU version I used was one tweaked for cherrytrail devices by linuxium, the standard one seemed to have kernel panic. The iso can be found here......

http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com/2016/10/running-ubuntu-on-intel-bay-trail-and.html

To get linuxium to boot I deleted "quiet splash" from grub.cfg and replaced with "nomodeset".

Also found another tweaked version and this one has working wifi out of the box, also it boots a little faster. Can be found here.....

http://xjesus.net/xjubuntu/xjubunta...izable-distro-based-on-xubuntu-14-04-64-bits/

To get xjubuntab to boot I deleted "quiet splash" from grub.cfg and replaced with "i915.modeset=0"

Sound--

Looks like sound might be an issue

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/intel-22b8-sound-chip-no-soundcard-found-on-hp-x2-210-g2/10673

Although a pair of usb headphones worked fine in both distros so I am guessing that would include usb soundcards.

To get wifi working in linuxiums distro...

Install...

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...d/9020816/+files/linux-firmware_1.156_all.deb

Download, right click and install. Then..

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo modprobe -r brcmfmac

sudo modprobe brcmfmac

Mint 18 boots with the nomodeset flag....Wifi works out of the box. Still no touch or sound.

Android x86cm boots with nomodeset flag....same as above, wifi works, no sound, touch or rotation.

Touchscreen....

From what I can gather from Android the touch screen identifies as Hideep and is working as /dev/input/event3. I could not get any response from any /dev/input/event* in linux. Not being a linux wiz I can only guess this means there is no kernel module for the touchscreen. Though I did find this on github, its android stuff don't know if its any help really....

https://github.com/alexzeitgeist/YT2/

WARNING!!! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE YOU DO TO YOUR TABLET!!!

Here is some instructions to get this going.

I am going to suggest you only try this if you are not a complete novice.

Let me stress again that you try this at your own risk. Be careful in the bios as you don't want to do anything to create a nice paperweight.

Manual boot to bios,

Try this at your own risk!!!!

This is magic code from Microsoft apparently. Feel free to google it.

These commands need entering one by one from adb shell. They need to be exactly right!!!!!!!!!!!

mount -t efivarfs efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars

printf "\x07\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\ x00" > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/OsIndications-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c

reboot

Tablet should boot to bios but you might need to manuall turn it back on, you can navigate the bios with the buttons. POWER=enter, vol+/- =navigate menus and long press vol+=Esc.

If you have TWRP recovery installed; after using the commands from adb once the reboot to bios option in the TWRP reboot menu should work, so next time you want to boot from bios just reboot from twrp.

To get keyboard and usb boot support, in bios

Device manager......

System setup........

android.......

Uefi secure BOOT=disable.

South cluster configuration.......

Usb configuration.....

default drd CONFIG=hostmode

Usb VBUS=on.

that's it save changes and exit. Next time you boot to bios you can use keyboard connected via otg to use bios. You can also select next boot device in bios boot manager.

If you want to be able to interupt boot process to select boot device also disable fast boot under boot category in bios . This will mean you get a black screen with progress bar on power on but allows use f7 to select boot device.

After booting another os from usb it often takes 3 boots to get back to android, don't panic.

Oh and lastly a powered usb hub is needed needed if you want to use mouse and keyboard in linux etc.