Linux Help Thread

[Robocrypt]

@EvolutionXJ something just occurred to me. Since your PC more than likely has GPT instead of MBR, you may need to use gptsync to sync the partition tables. To so this, boot into your live disc, open the terminal, and type sudo apt-get install gptsync. After it installs, do sudo gptsync /dev/sda. I had an issue similar to yours trying to triple boot my netbook and that was the solution. Let me know if you get stuck again.

Also are you using windows boot manager to boot Linux or are you using GRUB (it might be lilo in the case of uefi)

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Well pgtsync forgotten then. Also I am not sure how to use grub as the boot manager...just by default it runs window manager or grub gets booted when i boot up mint from my liveusb. How would I change it do use grub? I dont't even see grub in the list of boot options in the UEFI.

 

[Chalk]

I have Ubuntu booting on my mac through a virtual box and I've never been able to get it to recognize any of my devices. It's usually why I just wait for a Mac method, but I'm super excited to get this bad boy dialed.

Any ideas? I've tried reinstalling Ubuntu and adb multiple times through different methods, but no dice. And yes, I have usb debugging checked. I've also tried 3 different cables and all of my usb ports. Thanks for any help!

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Prerequisites
32-bit Linux (Ubuntu is preferred)
Live CD’s are fine.
Live USB is fine.
Native install is fine.
VM’s are unsupported.
64-bit Linux may work with 32 bit libraries, but is also unsupported.

You won't be able to use VM with this. http://moonshine.io/instructions/

 

[pio_masaki]

You won't be able to use VM with this. http://moonshine.io/instructions/

It works, a user reported using one to s-off, its just a lot more hassle then live USB booting will be. In this case I'd consider unsupported to mean they wont help with it.


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[xcesivemastub8ah]

If youre on a Mac and just want to run it to s-off it really doesnt get much easier than downloading the x86 32bit .iso from the ubuntu site, using disk utility to burn it to a DVD then restart, press the option until the disks come up, chose the CD (should be named "windows") and you're good to go. Download moonshine, open terminal type cd ~/Downloads then follow the directions on the moonshine site. Easy as pie. Awesome work guys.

 

[Nickodarius]

32 bit libraries

I am using 32 bit Ubuntu but when i run moonshine it says I'm missing 32 bit libraries. How do i locate and install these? Thanks

 

[Robocrypt]

@EvolutionXJ something just occurred to me. Since your PC more than likely has GPT instead of MBR, you may need to use gptsync to sync the partition tables. To so this, boot into your live disc, open the terminal, and type sudo apt-get install gptsync. After it installs, do sudo gptsync /dev/sda. I had an issue similar to yours trying to triple boot my netbook and that was the solution. Let me know if you get stuck again.

Also are you using windows boot manager to boot Linux or are you using GRUB (it might be lilo in the case of uefi)

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This was my issue after all! Went to gparted on my live distro. Changed harddrive to md dos and bam. grub works and I have mint on my pc now

 

[maxjivi05]

I am using 32 bit Ubuntu but when i run moonshine it says I'm missing 32 bit libraries. How do i locate and install these? Thanks

Sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Should do the trick also make sure you've got android tools installed

Sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

That should do it.

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[jamiethemorris]

This was my issue after all! Went to gparted on my live distro. Changed harddrive to md dos and bam. grub works and I have mint on my pc now

You mean you had to reformat everything and switch to mbr? If so I don't know if that was necessary but I'm glad you got it working.

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[Robocrypt]

You mean you had to reformat everything and switch to mbr? If so I don't know if that was necessary but I'm glad you got it working.

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here is the link i found to help me

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/858
and yea i had to reformat my drive to mbr. well msdos since i did it through my live linux distro. I wish I could have found another way though. Because I lost windows 8 in the process so no dual booting for me. I might Just install my old windows 7 though and dual boot that. I hated windows 8 anyway. And I had backed up most of my personal stuff before I formatted so I just need to reinstall all my programs and stuff.

 

[jamiethemorris]

here is the link i found to help me

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/858
and yea i had to reformat my drive to mbr. well msdos since i did it through my live linux distro. I wish I could have found another way though. Because I lost windows 8 in the process so no dual booting for me. I might Just install my old windows 7 though and dual boot that. I hated windows 8 anyway. And I had backed up most of my personal stuff before I formatted so I just need to reinstall all my programs and stuff.

Sigh... I suppose I should stop second guessing myself because I think gptsync would have solved that without reformatting. Basically, gptsync creates a hybrid MBR, so you can have a gpt but have a partition for an os that requires MBR (Linux mint being one of those). This is how boot camp for macs works.

On the other hand, I bet you probably have a much better understanding of Linux, which can turn out to be quite useful sometimes.

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[Robocrypt]

Sigh... I suppose I should stop second guessing myself because I think gptsync would have solved that without reformatting. Basically, gptsync creates a hybrid MBR, so you can have a gpt but have a partition for an os that requires MBR (Linux mint being one of those). This is how boot camp for macs works.

On the other hand, I bet you probably have a much better understanding of Linux, which can turn out to be quite useful sometimes.

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Don't worry about it. I have to leave somehow. Its not like I lost everything. Just gunna take a while to get it all back. however the gptsync would have been awesome and that definitely would va e fixed my issue. Because I had linux installed on a delegate partition but couldn't use grub to load it due to it being a gpt instead of mbr. So for future reference where do I get gptsynx? Because idk if windows can be run on msdos so I night need to use that to dual boot them anyway when I install windows 7. And yea it did help me learn some about linux so that was good. Still trying to figure out the terminal and commands and stuff but I'm liking it a lot so far. Once I feel a little more comfortable with it I'm going to get moonshine and s-off ny DNA since its out now!!!

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[jamiethemorris]

Don't worry about it. I have to leave somehow. Its not like I lost everything. Just gunna take a while to get it all back. however the gptsync would have been awesome and that definitely would va e fixed my issue. Because I had linux installed on a delegate partition but couldn't use grub to load it due to it being a gpt instead of mbr. So for future reference where do I get gptsynx? Because idk if windows can be run on msdos so I night need to use that to dual boot them anyway when I install windows 7. And yea it did help me learn some about linux so that was good. Still trying to figure out the terminal and commands and stuff but I'm liking it a lot so far. Once I feel a little more comfortable with it I'm going to get moonshine and s-off ny DNA since its out now!!!

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If it's MBR you don't need to use gptsync at all. You just need an NTFS partition for windows and (ideally) ext3 or ext4 for Linux. Some people like to to multiple partitions for a Linux install, I usually just use one.

For future reference... As for installing gptsync, it SHOULD just be as simple as sudo apt-get install gptsync. Then type sudo gptsync /dev/sda. I remember having one version of Ubuntu where it couldn't locate it though, and I had to use Google to find a download of gptsync. I don't know of that's still an issue or not.

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