BURG - Graphical Bootloader Install Guide to Viewpad 10

[gregrice]

Hi Mates!

I will describe a way to install Burg bootloader, instead of the good'old Grub.



Things you will need:

• USB Pendrive at least 2GB
• Ubuntu 10.04 Live ISO
• uNetbootin

Steps:
Format the USB Stick in Windows, with default settings and fat32.
Open up uNetbootin and choose the ubuntu iso image, then your usb sticks drive letter. Make the LiveUSB.
Reboot and choose your LiveUSB, "Try Ubuntu without install".
(in Ubuntu you will not have touchscreen working, but you can navigate with the arrow/tab keys)
On the desktop press Alt+F1 and go to Settings/Network, set up a wireless connection.
From the Accessories menu open the Terminal and issue the following commands:

sudo su
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt
mkdir bin cdrom dev dev/pts etc home lib media proc rofs sbin sys usr tmp var
mount --bind /bin ./bin
mount --bind /cdrom ./cdrom
mount --bind /dev ./dev
mount --bind /dev/pts ./dev/pts
mount --bind /etc ./etc
mount --bind /home ./home
mount --bind /lib ./lib
mount --bind /media ./media
mount --bind /proc ./proc
mount --bind /rofs ./rofs
mount --bind /sbin ./sbin
mount --bind /sys ./sys
mount --bind /usr ./usr
mount --bind /tmp ./tmp
mount --bind /var ./var
chroot /mnt/ /bin/bash
add-apt-repository ppa:bean123ch/burg
apt-get update && apt-get install burg

While the Burg install process it will ask you about kernel commands, for that just hit enter twice
and then it ask you about where to install Burg, there you have to choose /dev/sda.
Your Windows installation is recognized automatically, but for the Android you have to add few lines to 40_custom file.

nano /etc/burg.d/40_custom

If you not familiar with the boot args of your Android x86 installation, here is a little example:

menuentry "Android-4.0-RC1" { 
set root='(hd0,1)' 
echo 'Loading Android ICS...'
linux /android-4.0-RC1/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=tegav2 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode SRC=/android-4.0-RC1
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk...'
initrd /android-4.0-RC1/initrd.img

There is a bunch of themes already installed with Burg, but in case you want to add something of your choice then it's time to do it!
If you've finished make config and update burg:

burg-mkconfig && update-burg

Before rebooting try your bootloader with the cmd:

burg-emu

Thats all, you should have a brand new and shiny look bootloader

Hope it was useful!

Greg

 

[Atomius]

Hello,

How I've to edit the Android Boot Settings


menuentry "Android-4.0-RC1" { set root='(hd0,1)' echo 'Loading Android ICS...' linux /android-4.0-RC1/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=tegav2 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode SRC=/android-4.0-RC1 echo 'Loading initial ramdisk...' initrd /android-4.0-RC1/initrd.img


If I had Adroid installed on the micro SD card in my Viewpad 10? I can boot it with F11 and then select, but this is not nice.

 

[waterhead]

I would guess that the microSD card would be seen as (hd1,1). You would need to manually edit the bootloader info, according to the first post.

Change this:


set root='(hd0,1)'

To this:

set root='(hd1,1)'