Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices
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(04-23-2022, 09:28 AM)3460p Wrote:
(04-22-2022, 07:39 AM)wibble Wrote: You're using a PinePhone not a Pro, so the boot search order is uSD then eMMC. If you got the multiboot menu then your uSD still has p-boot on it, and this was run before it even looked at the eMMC. tow-boot wasn't involved in that one at all.

You’re quite right - my apologies, I had thought that I’d managed to do what I described above with the PP starting on a red LED as well as enabling me to access USB mode with the blue LED Up volume button (i.e. indicating that Tow-Boot was still the functioning bootloader) but I just tried to replicate that and my PP started with a green LED then displayed Megi’s multiboot menu so I can only assume I got slightly muddled when I first tried this late into the night...

Ok so there’s no way of having ones main OS on the microSD card, Megi’s multiboot on the eMMC and be able to switch between the two without removing the microSD card?

I think you could do that in two ways, both using p-boot. One is to remove the bootloader from the uSD so that the process skips the uSD and uses the p-boot on the eMMC. The other is to install p-boot on the uSD. In either case you'll need to check the p-boot docs to see what config changes you need to make to p-boot to provide the extra boot options.
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RE: Tow-Boot, a new U-Boot option for Pinephone Pro and other devices - by wibble - 04-25-2022, 02:59 AM

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