(01-08-2022, 08:54 AM)Avisando Wrote: I would like to know how to use the p-boot (on the SD card) with only one distribution (Manjaro Phosh Beta 20, also on the SD card) and in this way be able to use the eMMC option to launch Glodroid which is on the internal storage of the PinePhone.
I do not know much in computer science so if someone wants to explain this to me in a (relatively) simple way, I would be grateful to him.
This is out of my wheelhouse, but I'm quite sure the explanation wouldn't be simple. If you had a kernel properly compiled for the PinePhone p-boot should be able to throw control to it. You would also need an appropriatey formatted partition on the eMMC and would have to setup the filesystem. But after all that work you would probably then have to deal with a lot of hardware incompatibility issues.
Sorry I can't help. If you try you will probably be the first. You may not end up with anything functional, but guarantee you will learn a LOT.
(01-09-2022, 03:08 AM)ryo Wrote:(01-08-2022, 11:31 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: It weighed about 500 pounds
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When I was a kid, we were still using floppy drives though.
For nostalgia purposes.
I remember when Commodore doubled the memory of their flagship Commodore 64 and came out with the Commodore 128 (kilobytes). It was amazing!
Yes, I was doing the sd switcheroo for a while as well. 32GB is a bit small for ongoing multiboot setup, but you could still get a couple or few distributions if you don't store a lot of media also (the demo image has 17).
But the beauty of Megi's template isn't just p-boot, it's the combination of p-boot with btrfs. Btrfs means you don't need a separate partition for each distro, so they can grow and shrink to save space. Copies of entire distros consume almost no space. I'm using a 128GB sd and have more space than I know what to do with. Before I update anything I copy (snapshot) the entire distro. If something breaks (unfortunately still common at this point) the whole thing can be reverted in a matter of minutes from another working distro on the same sd or the eMMC. The days of having to reflash the entire image are over. You do need a kernel with btrfs support though. (Megi's does, obviously.)
