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new RPi firmware allows multiple distros on same SD card

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There is supposed to be an announcement in a few days that

new RPi firmware allows multiple distros on the same SD card,

that RPF plans to sell.

 

We learned today that Fedora plans to be one of the distros,

with their soon-to-be-released hard-float version, called Pidora.

http://www.element14.com/community/thread/18095?start=67&tstart=0

 

"a day ago         firmware: add support for booting from alterative partition. [Dom Cobley]"

https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware/tree/ca7a2103f0a994051dafc097c9bc762684933f5b

 

"The change just allows an alternative partition (on the sdcard) to contain the normal firmware files that bootcode.bin subsequently loads."

...

"All will be made clear in a few days."

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=43875

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  • It would be good if this was a menu that the GPU displayed allowing you to pick a kernel/config.txt/cmdline.txt combination.

     

    If not, I don't really see the point. You already have the ability to select the kernel that's loaded in config.txt and cmdline.txt passes the kernels root= param that will tell the kernel what partition to boot from, so it's already possible to have multiple distros on one card in different partitions.

     

    The missing piece has always been something like lilo / grub / syslinux that allows you to select what to boot from a menu...

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  • It would be good if this was a menu that the GPU displayed allowing you to pick a kernel/config.txt/cmdline.txt combination.

     

    If not, I don't really see the point. You already have the ability to select the kernel that's loaded in config.txt and cmdline.txt passes the kernels root= param that will tell the kernel what partition to boot from, so it's already possible to have multiple distros on one card in different partitions.

     

    The missing piece has always been something like lilo / grub / syslinux that allows you to select what to boot from a menu...

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