UPDATED (June 2021): 17-distro multi-boot image for Pinephone (incl. 3GiB variant)

[LazLong]

Mobian 20200912
❌ 4G icon appears for 10 seconds and then disconnects.

PureOS 20200908
❌ 4G icon appears for 10 seconds and then disconnects.
Sailfish 1.1-3.3.0.16-devel-20200909
✅ Cellular data works.
❓ For some reason the APN is already configured. It's possibly coming from the SIM card.
❓ Browser doesn't work but I can see the page title retrieved.

I tried these two on my 3GiB pinephone and 4G icon doesn't disappear. I think I'll add some simple script that uses can run to send kernel log, battery voltage, and similar helpful info to my email to next image revision, to help debug these kinds of issues.

Though it doesn't seem it will be a kernel thing, if modem works in some distros and not others.

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I've prepared a multi-boot image for people who want to easily try as many distrbutions as possible. Official website is now here: https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/

Video: https://megous.com/dl/tmp/multi2.mp4
Or: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqyuKysK6ag
https://megous.com/dl/tmp/multi4.mp4 or https://megous.com/dl/tmp/multi5.mp4

Some history/details are on my blog: https://xnux.eu/log/

It there ANYTHING like this available for the Pinebook Pro? This is exactly what I'm interested in - as I want to test all the PBP OSes in succession.

If not, would you be interested in creating an option like this for PBP? I am brand new to the party but I'm also willing to be a part of any projects. I currently only own Pinebook Pro hardware, but am going to order a PinePhone just as soon as Pine64 has hardware to ship my way.

I want something like this for the Pinebook Pro, and am willing to help in any way shape or fashion to get an option going... if interested, please PM me and I'll get to work any way that I can.

 pAULIE42o
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I'm not interested in doing something like this for PBP. That said...

Something like this may be possible using u-boot using the same general approach with btrfs for the root filesystems. I've heard that u-boot may support the display already on PBP. I'm not using u-boot on PBP though, because it's veeery slow to boot. I'm using levinboot https://gitlab.com/DeltaGem/levinboot which is about 7-10x faster already. Levinboot doesn't support multi-boot or display, or keyboard yet, so it's not possible to use it for this kind of project.

All my scripts and documentation on how I did the pinephone multi-boot image is online, so it should not be that hard to replicate this on PBP, if you figure out the u-boot part.

https://xnux.eu/log/
https://megous.com/git/pinephone-multi-boot/

The differences will be only in the kernel/bootloader part.

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Nice notice/write-up about this project on 9to5linux dot com.  Congrats!