Originally Posted by saco274

Noob here. I installed the bochs apk, extracted the SDL zip, took SDL folder and put it on the root of my SD card. Then I downloaded redhat_6.512mb.zip and renamed it c.img and put it in sdl folder and then I ran bochs apk and it went into a black screen quickly and then it went back to normal as if nothing happened. What did I do wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Did you extract redhat_6.512mb.zip and rename the actual img file "c.img" or did you rename the zip folder "c.img"? If you renamed the zip folder, it won't work. You need the actual img file. I got redhat to install, but it asks for a localhost login and no user/pw combos that I tried worked, so no luck actually getting in.

EDIT: Can't get any of the Android x86 ISOs to Run from the Live CD or Install. I have a Qualcomm CPU, so that might be why. None of those are designed for Qualcomm. The 2.2 generic ISO just crashes instantly and trying to install ICS or Honeycomb gives me that kernel is wrong error I posted above.

EDIT2: Trying to get the nightly GB running from this guy's x86 nightlies page - http://mariuz.android-dev.ro/ - works in Boch, but when I try to install it it gives me this error, is there a way to change the install path on Bochs?:

Booting 'Android Install to /dev/sda from /dev/sdb
cmdline (hd1,0)/cmdline
Error 21: Selected disk does not exist

Damnet all. I can't get anything working Debian worked, but was just a command prompt. RedHat needed a user/pass which no combo would work. And Ubuntu failed to install. The Windows ISO's I've used don't work either.

Originally Posted by FiddleGoose

I'll have to give that a try. Will report back!

I know I'm not the only one with these problems!

How do you use virtualbox to create an img?

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Screw it, here goes nothing, freeBSD here I come! http://xkcd.com/518/

YES. IT WORKS.

Originally Posted by chessmaster W/nook

How do you use virtualbox to create an img?

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Screw it, here goes nothing, freeBSD here I come! http://xkcd.com/518/

YES. IT WORKS.

How did you get freeBSD working? I got it to the install/run from live CD after FOREVER (seriously) and I clicked run from live cd and it failed.

I've tried 20 isos/img files now, some crash upon opening and other fail to install due to kernels and various errors. I've got Debian to actually boot up and that is it. Win 95, Win XP and other Linux distros and the Android x86 all fail.

Originally Posted by dbaybay

How did you get freeBSD working? I got it to the install/run from live CD after FOREVER (seriously) and I clicked run from live cd and it failed.

I've tried 20 isos/img files now, some crash upon opening and other fail to install due to kernels and various errors. I've got Debian to actually boot up and that is it. Win 95, Win XP and other Linux distros and the Android x86 all fail.

I used this http://sourceforge.net/projects/boch...mages/FreeBSD/

Originally Posted by chessmaster W/nook

I used this http://sourceforge.net/projects/boch...mages/FreeBSD/

Damn, that's like 550MB smaller than the IMG file I got from the FreeBSD website :P

Thanks man, I'll give that one a shot right now!

Originally Posted by dbaybay

Damn, that's like 550MB smaller than the IMG file I got from the FreeBSD website :P

Thanks man, I'll give that one a shot right now!

Make sure you change your bochsrc.txt back to img. Have you been using images from the links in the OP?

Originally Posted by chessmaster W/nook

Make sure you change your bochsrc.txt back to img. Have you been using images from the links in the OP?

Yep. I've changed it from img to iso depending on what I'm trying to install. I got Debian from the OP installed, but it was just a shell command interface, bawring. I got Red Hat installed, but it wanted a user/pass and everything I tried didn't work. The other ones seemed like they weren't going to have much of a user interface like Ubuntu, so I skipped them.

I tried Android x86 ISOs and Windows ISOs, all of which failed to install with kernel errors or just crashed on startup.

The only successful one I've done is Debian which didn't have much going on. So I'm gonna try this version of FreeBSD now.

Originally Posted by dbaybay

Yep. I've changed it from img to iso depending on what I'm trying to install. I got Debian from the OP installed, but it was just a shell command interface, bawring. I got Red Hat installed, but it wanted a user/pass and everything I tried didn't work. The other ones seemed like they weren't going to have much of a user interface like Ubuntu, so I skipped them.

I tried Android x86 ISOs and Windows ISOs, all of which failed to install with kernel errors or just crashed on startup.

The only successful one I've done is Debian which didn't have much going on. So I'm gonna try this version of FreeBSD now.

Wait, you know what freeBSD is, right?

Never used it, but I'm about to find out. I'm assuming it's a linux distro.

Yeah lol, this brought me to a "You have new mail. #" command terminal. I don't know what to do from here, as the only Linux I've used is Xubuntu. I want to get an OS installed with a desktop

Originally Posted by dbaybay

Never used it, but I'm about to find out. I'm assuming it's a linux distro.

Well, it's UNIX based, and it's just kind of a command line, so if you want more, you'll have to do some work, or choose something different.