02-04-2016, 11:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-04-2016, 12:03 PM by stephen fleming.)
(02-04-2016, 10:57 AM)SkairkrohBule Wrote:(02-04-2016, 09:32 AM)stephen fleming Wrote: On PCs a program stored in firmware called the BIOS is used to select different storage devices, and loading boot loader programs such as GRUB which allows selection of different versions of Linux and other operating systems. Since the Pine 64 only supports booting from the micro SD card, it would need to be partitioned with one partition having a boot loader, and a partition for each operation system. I do not know if having multiple operating systems on a partitioned micro SD card would work.
This topic came up initially (at least I think it did, it was a while ago) because dual-booting (or multi-booting) is something that is possible on the Raspberry Pi, which is another small SoC system that utilises micro sd cards to hold the operating system(s).
I looked into that and there is a program called BerryBoot that allows multiple versions of Linux to be installed on the same SD card, however in will not work with non Linux operating systems.