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* On most devices, the recovery partition holds a recovery image (or fastboot boot image (on some deivce)) . With the postmarketOS boot image flashed to the recovery partition and the root image flashed to either an internal partition or an sdcard, you will able to dualboot but doing that will make you lose the android recovery mode (this works on xiaomi-santoni and samsung-degaswifi)
* On most devices, the recovery partition holds a recovery image (or fastboot boot image (on some deivce)) . With the postmarketOS boot image flashed to the recovery partition and the root image flashed to either an internal partition or an sdcard, you will able to dualboot but doing that will make you lose the android recovery mode (this works on xiaomi-santoni and samsung-degaswifi)
* On msm8916 devices with lk2nd the boot image is loaded from an ext2 boot partition either on EMMC or SD card. Since lk2nd keeps backwards compatibility with android boot images, you can flash your android boot.img via lk2nd and it will boot that image unless an SD card with postmarketOS is inserted.
* On msm8916 devices with lk2nd the boot image is loaded from an ext2 boot partition either on EMMC or SD card. Since lk2nd keeps backwards compatibility with android boot images, you can flash your android boot.img via lk2nd and it will boot that image unless an SD card with postmarketOS is inserted.
* Some uefi Implementation for android phone like ([https://efidroid.org efidroid],[[Renegade Project]]) can be used together with postmarketOS (see [[OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)/Dual_Booting_and_Custom_Partitioning#Dual booting pmos with other uefi based os (like openbsd , netbsd , freebsd,windows,etc) via Renegade Project]])
* Some uefi Implementation for android phone like ([https://efidroid.org efidroid],[[Renegade Project]]) can be used together with postmarketOS (see [[OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchilada)/Dual_Booting_and_Custom_Partitioning#Dual booting pmos with other uefi based os (like openbsd , netbsd , freebsd,windows,etc) via Renegade Project | Great guies for Dual boot pm os with other uefi based os via Renegade Project on oneplus 6/6t (with inculed guies for bootting pm os via Renegade Project but some part of it can be reused on some other device.]])
*Probably multiboot can be implemented with any second stage bootloader, capable of running linux (for example lk2nd)
*Probably multiboot can be implemented with any second stage bootloader, capable of running linux (for example lk2nd)



Revision as of 07:45, 21 June 2023

Dual Booting, also sometimes called Multiboot, is a process by which you can install multiple operating systems on your device, and select between them when booting it up.

postmarketOS doesn't currently support dual booting through recovery, yet there are a few ways this can be achieved:

See also

Dual booting pm os and netbsd demo video