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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.
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:
postmarketOS currently might support dual booting through recovery (kind of), yet there are a few ways this can be achieved:


* On the [[Nokia N900]] and many device that use uboot (like [[MangoPi MQ-Pro (mangopi-mq-pro)]] , [[Xunlong Orange Pi 3 (xunlong-orangepi3)]]) , u-boot provides a mechanism to select the OS. See [[Nokia N900#Installation]] and [https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/cmd/bootmenu.html|See bootmenu on uboot doc]  
* On the [[Nokia N900]] and many device that use uboot (like [[MangoPi MQ-Pro (mangopi-mq-pro)]] , [[Xunlong Orange Pi 3 (xunlong-orangepi3)]]) , u-boot provides a mechanism to select the OS. See [[Nokia N900#Installation]] and [https://u-boot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage/cmd/bootmenu.html|See bootmenu on uboot doc]  
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* On uefi / bios based device , grub can be used for dual booting (see [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows Dual boot with Windows on arch wiki])
* On uefi / bios based device , grub can be used for dual booting (see [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dual_boot_with_Windows Dual boot with Windows on arch wiki])
* On newer android phone [[Android AB Slots]] can be used for dual boot.
* On newer android phone [[Android AB Slots]] can be used for dual boot.
* It is possible to use Safestrap recovery mode 's rom solt feature to dual boot , currently [[Motorola Droid 4 (motorola-maserati)]] is only device that utilize Safestrap to boot
* Probably multiboot can be implemented with any second stage bootloader, capable of running linux (for example [[lk2nd]],grub)
* Probably multiboot can be implemented with any second stage bootloader, capable of running linux (for example [[lk2nd]],grub)



Revision as of 08:13, 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 currently might support dual booting through recovery (kind of), yet there are a few ways this can be achieved:

See also