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You may need to use multi-boot on a Raspberry Pi if you are using it for different purposes.įor example, you can install these three systems on your SD card: If you want to change to another system, you just need to reboot your Raspberry Pi and select another one in the boot menu. You install several systems on your SD card and you choose which one you want to start each time. On a Raspberry Pi, we’d rather use multi-boot because there are many distributions you can install on Raspberry Pi (there are already 3 or 4 Raspberry Pi OS versions). This works by having a separate partition (or more) for each operating system and a small tool on the first sector of your hard drive to ask you which partition you want to start.
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On a computer, you can have Windows and Linux installed, and you choose which OS you want to use when you start the computer (with a menu asking you each time you boot). Most of the time, we use this for Windows and Linux systems on a PC. What is a dual boot?ĭual boot means that you can use two different operating systems on the same computer.
Let’s start with a quick reminder about dual boot and why do you need to use it on your Raspberry Pi.
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If you are lost in all these new words and abbreviations, request my free Raspberry Pi glossary here (PDF format)! Introduction to dual boot on Raspberry Pi The first third of the book teaches you the basics, but the following chapters include projects you can try on your own. It’s a 30-day challenge, where you learn one new thing every day until you become a Raspberry Pi expert. If you are looking to quickly progress on Raspberry Pi, you can check out my e-book here.
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In this post, I’ll show you how to use it and I will share an alternative if PINN is not for you. Once done, you’ll get a boot menu to choose the system to start after each reboot. After copying the files to an SD card, PINN will start a wizard to let you choose the operating systems to install on the same device. PINN is currently the best option to create a dual boot on a Raspberry Pi. Yes, it’s possible, and it’s very convenient, as you don’t need to have five cards and flash them, again and again, each time you want to try something else.įor a person like me, who writes articles about different distributions, it’s really a time saver. Likewise I cache the OS icons to speed up the startup.You probably already asked yourself, is there a way to run multiple operating systems on the same SD card? This was a way of caching the data to speed it up. It takes a relatively long time to calculate it for 60-ish OSes, so it slows the startup time down.
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In any case, I can override it if it gets too far out of step with each update.īut on a new release of an OS, you have to update the OS entries in os_list_v3.json anyway (release date, version, description maybe), so what is the difference if the maintainer can update this field? You just need to cut n' paste the whole OS entry into in fact PINN already does calculate the download size for each OS, but only if the download_size field is not present. So you don't need to update it every time. "download_size" is only used for progress indication, and does not have to be accurate, although it does help. So the extra fields need to be in both files. I don't know why it is like that, it's before my time!
(Partitions.json is used for both local and remote OSes.) When the OS is stored locally on the SD card (like in NOOBS-FULL) or on the USB stick, there is no os_list_v3.json, so os.json is used instead. For these OSes, os.json is not actually used. Os_list_v3.json contains just enough meta-data for "remote" OSes on a server to be displayed in NOOBS/PINN and downloaded. What's the difference in how they're handled in the two files? "description": "The DIY retro emulation console", So I'd expect to see a file structure that looks like this We just need to be able to reach each of the files os_list references. "description": "LibreELEC is a fast and user-friendly Kodi Entertainment Center distribution.",