Multiple images in a single card.

Hi,

I wanted to test wireless networking using Raspberry Pi for which I suppose I'd need Occidentials distro. Also if I may need other distributions for other purposes. So can I have two different images on my micro SD card?

0 rew over 10 years ago

Out-of-the-box, this is not as easy as with a "normal" PC running Linux: Normal PCs have a bootloader that you can tell what configuration you want to boot given a list of possible configurations. (A configuration consists of kernel-to-boot, and a few other things like root).

If you're adventurous, you should look into how "noobs" does things: Somehow they have enough control to say: if you press <i-don-t-remmeber-what-key> quickly enough you can go back to noobs to do certain things.... You should be able to make a sort-of-bootloader in that way....
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0 markvenn over 10 years ago

I thnk that you are looking for the berryboot system. it allows multiple OS on a sd card

http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot

I have not used it myself but I have read good things about the project
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0 mconners over 10 years ago in reply to markvenn

That berryboot is a cool project. Thanks for the link.

Mike
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Thanks guys!!!!!!
What I was thinking actually came from the fact that we can select different images on a virtual machine player like VmWare. So thought as we are going to work on an image, we might be able to use multiple images. Thanks all for your answers... I'll keep posting questions guys, I'm still inchoate in embedded domain.
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0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to markvenn

Yes same here I've seen it progress and heard good reviews of it so would recommend it based on that... not that there's a lot of choice in this end of the market
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0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

Check out the Berry stuff Ravneet, BTW Vm ware works very differently the entire host OS is running providing services for the client(s) so this is quite different than having a single bootloader to load one OR the other OS
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0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Yeah! I completely agree on that. But my focus was on using images, like the VmWare Player does. VmWare just sits on top of our OS. Thanks for joining in.
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