wraggster
February 24th, 2013, 18:52
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Those of us have been dual booting Linux, Windows, and OS X operating systems for a while will be familiar with bootloaders such as GRUB and its ilk. Surprisingly, though, we haven’t seen a bootloader for the most popular computer of the last year – the Raspberry Pi. It makes sense to have a bootloader for the Raspberry Pi; with dozens of different distributions from Raspbian, Occidentalis, and a bunch of more esoteric distros, we’re surprised we’re only just now seeing a proper bootloader (http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot) for the Raspi.
Berryboot is extremely simple to install – just copy it onto a FAT formatted SD card and you can install multiple OSes on your Raspberry Pi. On booting, Berryboot shows a dialog box of all the installed operating systems, with new ones able to be installed over the internet from a Berryboot menu.
You can grab Berryboot over on the gits (https://github.com/maxnet/berryboot). Berryboot also works with those Allwinner A10 single board computers (http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/product/A10.html), but the Hackaday tip line hasn’t seen hide nor hair of those boards.
http://hackaday.com/2013/02/24/multibooting-the-raspberry-pi/
Those of us have been dual booting Linux, Windows, and OS X operating systems for a while will be familiar with bootloaders such as GRUB and its ilk. Surprisingly, though, we haven’t seen a bootloader for the most popular computer of the last year – the Raspberry Pi. It makes sense to have a bootloader for the Raspberry Pi; with dozens of different distributions from Raspbian, Occidentalis, and a bunch of more esoteric distros, we’re surprised we’re only just now seeing a proper bootloader (http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot) for the Raspi.
Berryboot is extremely simple to install – just copy it onto a FAT formatted SD card and you can install multiple OSes on your Raspberry Pi. On booting, Berryboot shows a dialog box of all the installed operating systems, with new ones able to be installed over the internet from a Berryboot menu.
You can grab Berryboot over on the gits (https://github.com/maxnet/berryboot). Berryboot also works with those Allwinner A10 single board computers (http://www.allwinnertech.com/en/product/A10.html), but the Hackaday tip line hasn’t seen hide nor hair of those boards.
http://hackaday.com/2013/02/24/multibooting-the-raspberry-pi/