grub-android-x86

This is GRUB Configuration for Android on PC detection for Linux

Works with Android x86, not tested with ARM ROM like PrimeOS, LineageOS,...

Install

Arch Linux

yay -S grub-android-prober
# or
paru -S grub-android-prober
# or
pamac install grub-android-prober
# or any aur helper you got

Alternatively, you can use the following method for distros that don't have official package

Quick install

Make sure you have superuser permission (sudo su or doas su) and /usr/local/bin is in your $PATH

wget -O /etc/grub.d/30_android-prober https://github.com/shadichy/grub-android-x86/raw/master/30_android-prober
wget -O /usr/local/bin/grub-android-prober https://github.com/shadichy/grub-android-x86/raw/master/grub-android-prober
chmod +x /etc/grub.d/30_android-prober /usr/local/bin/grub-android-prober

Or with curl

curl -Lo /etc/grub.d/30_android-prober https://github.com/shadichy/grub-android-x86/raw/master/30_android-prober
curl -Lo /usr/local/bin/grub-android-prober https://github.com/shadichy/grub-android-x86/raw/master/grub-android-prober
chmod +x /etc/grub.d/30_android-prober /usr/local/bin/grub-android-prober

Configuration

These are configurations of grub-android-prober . Those can be set in either /etc/defaults/grub or /etc/grub-android.conf

Default values are in file grub-android-prober

GRUB_ANDROID_SUPPORTED_FS

Specify which filesystems contains Android or the ones this program will try to search for Android on

Note: by default, Android initramfs don't support btrfs and some other filesystems, but BlissOS does support btrfs

GRUB_ANDROID_SUPPORTED_FS="ext2 ext3 ext4 vfat exfat ntfs"

GRUB_ANDROID_EXCLUDE_SEARCH

Specify which paths will be excluded during search

Note: path must start with a slash, and be separated by "," (comma) ending slashes are not needed

GRUB_ANDROID_EXCLUDE_SEARCH="/bin,/boot/efi,/dev,/lib,/lib64,/proc,/run,/sbin,/sys,/tmp"

GRUB_ANDROID_INCLUDE_SEARCH

Specify which files/folders will be search for/detecting

GRUB_ANDROID_SEARCH="system system.img system.sfs system_a.img"

GRUB_ANDROID_SEARCH_DEPTH

Specify max recursive directory search limit

GRUB_ANDROID_SEARCH_DEPTH=5

Build

First clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/shadichy/grub-android-x86
cd ./grub-android-x86

Arch Linux

makepkg -si

Debian

dpkg-buildpackage