About the Pinebook - What to expect

[pfeerick]

Wizzard's question re. a bootloader got me thinking -- Are there utilities for other boards that can boot multiple OS' ? I vaguely remember something like that on the RPI ...

Yeah, the RPi can do it through their micro NOOBs (New Out Of the Box Software) OS selection menu. But as ayufan said, using uboot, all that needs to be changed is an entry in uEnv.txt, and the pinebook (and any pine device) can switch between installed OSs. If I'm understanding the serial output from uboot correctly on the pine64, it should actually be possible to change boot sources there (although not practical due to only SD card equipped), so I presume the same can be done right now on the pinebook, but there is no need due to the boot device priorities. It would be nice if you could bash the ESC key on power up and get a boot device menu, but I presume getting the LCD and keyboard functioning at a uboot level is beyond the realms of practicality