• From: Arizona
  • Registered: 2012-05-17
  • Posts: 294

Topic: Is there a way to have a choice of which OS to boot from a USB stick?

ie MultiBoot Chumby OS on a USB stick.

With a few choices now of alternative OS for the Chumby, is there a way to have multiple boot choices on one USB stick?
Seems to be a waste to have to have multiple USB sticks with different OS choices. Just a thought.

  • From: Oceanside, CA
  • Registered: 2008-04-17
  • Posts: 650

Re: Is there a way to have a choice of which OS to boot from a USB stick?

The only way I could see this as a possibility is with a different bootloader.  This is one of the reasons I was asking for more information from pazos about this alternate bootloader he used.  Something like you're asking might be possible at some time with an open source bootloader.

There may be other ways of implementing this since the existing chumby software since it supports toggling between two kernel/rootfs options already for updating, and the special options menu.

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