Booting into Tablet/PC/IOT/IIOT/Game Mode builds

!!WARNING!! - THESE BUILDS ARE MEANT TO REPLACE YOUR EXISTING OPERATING SYSTEM OR BE INSTALLED ON NEW HARDWARE. THESE ARE NOT INTENDED FOR DUAL-BOOTING

!!Notice!!: These builds come with A/B OTA Update support, and will not work in Live mode, and will not install properly if using anything except the Bootable USB install method we include in the .iso.

Bootable USB Install

We will need to use the bootable USB install method. Similar to this guide: https://docs.blissos.org/installation/install-from-bootable-usb/#install-efi-from-bootable-usb

Install Steps:

1) We will want to start by booting into the installer by selecting the top Install option

2) From here we will want to change the drive partition scheme to be A) EFI (VFAT) B) Android (ext4). This means that we need to delete all partitions except for the top EFI partition, and create a single new partition with the remaining space. Select Write when complete, then Quit. The end result should look like the image below.

3) We can now select the 2nd partition (ext4) to install the OS on. Once selected, it will prompt to select a filesystem type. Select EXT4 and confirm that we do want to reformat

4) It will then reformat the drive, then it will ask if we want to install Grub EFI. Select Yes.

5) If you have a previous install, you will also get a prompt asking if you want to replace the Grub EFI boot entry. Select Yes as well.

6) The installer will/ then write the system to the drive, and afterwards, it will setup the install for A/B updates

7) Once that is complete, the installer will give you a choice to Run or Reboot. We want to select Reboot here, making sure to remove the USB drive after the device reboots.

Booting into the OS

(!!NOTICE FOR BUILDS THAT HIDE GRUB!!) When the device reboots, it will not show the grub menu by default, and automatically boot into the last known boot mode. In order to show the grub menu, tap shift multiple times while the initial BIOS boot logo is displayed. If done correctly, you will be presented with the Grub menu. If no keys are pressed, the bios boot menu will show a black screen afterwards while Grub is loading the configuration in the background.

Once the device boots into Grub, the top option or two will be our default mode (Intel Default or AMD Default) boot options.

While the Debugging modes can be found in the Other Options section of the boot menu.