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Android System Programming
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Android System Programming

by Roger Ye
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Booting from a hard disk

We can have another option, as follows,to boot the system from the hard disk after we install the system using the previous configuration:

label 2. x86vbox (ROOT=/dev/sda1, serial port) menu x86vbox_sda1_S3 kernel x86vbox/kernel append ip=dhcp console=ttyS3,115200 initrd=x86vbox/initrd.img androidboot.hardware=x86vbox DEBUG=2 SRC=/android-x86vbox ROOT=/dev/sda1 

In the preceding configuration, we use the /dev/sda1 device as the root and we don't have the INSTALL=1 option. With this configuration, the virtual machine will boot to the Android system from the hard disk /dev/sda1 and the debug output will print to the virtual serial port.

We can use another similar configuration that prints the debug output to the screen. ...

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ISBN: 9781787125360