Multiple os boot on startup

[hawsey]

Well now I have a new tiny Hdd to play with i am back to thinking about trying something like



http://jogglerhacks.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... ggler.html

I know it will need a keyboard attached to make the os choice on boot but I still like the idea.

Would Coreboot / Seabios possibly allow for touchscreen selection of a multiple boot set up I wonder?

I think mickchip is the only one I heard had the above working properly, but maybe not.

Also found this on the mporting site but I can't get translate to work at the moment so will report back when I do

http://www.mporting.com/2011/05/refit/

[Mevi]

Isn't rEFIt a change to the Jogglers EFI? That put me off trying it at the time... I wasn't brave/wreckless then.

http://reboot.pro/files/file/279-uefi-multi/

This is a new UEFI/BIOS multi boot tool that boots VHDs from USB stick. I havent tried it myself, but i get a newsletter from reboo.pro now n then. UEFI won't work on the Joggler, but might be good on Inaxeon's SeaBIOS. You will be limited to multiple installs of Windows, however.

Might be useful on a normal BIOS PC.

Windows 8 boot manager has touch support... Not tried on the Joggler, but on a laptop, I could boot W7 or W8 from the W8 GUI boot loader. Dunno if others trying W8 with SeaBIOS tried something similar?

[hawsey]

Isn't rEFIt a change to the Jogglers EFI? That put me off trying it at the time... I wasn't brave/wreckless then.

Yes I think it changes the efi Mevi :-\
If I try it is there any way to fe flash the efi easily? Or is a fiddle with hot swapping etc?
I think I need another joggler for this sort of mucking about with .
Multi boot I know is a gimmick but I am easily impressed heh he
Love the idea of having Joli, Mint, XbmcOs, Squeeze play Android etc available from touch screen at start up :
Images stored either on external HDD or through a hub and USB sticks
I think we are some way off this yet though.

[Mevi]

Yeah, reflashing a bricked EFI is gonna require a second good Joggler to do the hot swap.... Unless you can still boot from an external stick and flash from Ubuntu, etc. I still don't know if that is actually possible. One of the Linux heads might be able to answer that for you.

[pete]

Yeah best to have some extra flash chips (found them here for around $5-10 - don't remember anymore). You can actually just keep a joggler apart in pieces and call it a hot swap/flash joggler labeling your chips. They are like little insects and you have to be careful not to bend the pins.

[hawsey]

I am a bit scared to mess with the efi in thus way so failing that
Is there a way that I could partition my portable hdd so that it has say
Partition 1 ubuntu, partition 2 :Joli os 3 :Android 4: Squeezeplayos 5: xbmc os

So that on startup with a keyboard plugged in I could select which partition to boot from .
I mean a bit like the blind typing over the O2 logo to rescue a broken Joggler.
Ideally if nothing is typed it would just boot to say Xubuntu on partition 1 .

I am clueless here but just hoping that this would be possible.