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

[Paulie420]

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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!

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Ok, I fully understand what you're saying - thanks for your work on the PinePhone, I have to get my hands on that hardware and will quit posting on your thread concerning such..

Thanks for the head start tips and I'll familiarize myself with uBoot to see if I can be of any help on the PBP side. You, sir, are appreciated. Thanks!