Spekham2013
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quad boot on raspberry pi

Mon May 09, 2016 7:12 pm

Hello everyone

Today i was thinking is it worth to buy a 32 or 64gb sd card. So i wondered is it possible to quad boot a raspberry pi with each os 8gb or 16gb of storage on a partition. I would like to quad boot raspbian, openelec, kali linux and windows Iot core. So anyone have any experience out there with quad booting a raspberry pi.

thanks in advance

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Re: quad boot on raspberry pi

Mon May 09, 2016 7:35 pm

I think the multi boot solutions that do exist are based on Linux, and won be able to boot Win10IOT.
I could be mistaken.

Berryboot is one boot manager that you could try.

as the PI has no BIOS booting is handled by the GPU, not the CPU, this makes multi boot difficult, as conventional solutions won't work!

its probably much easier to use separate sd-cards for each system you want to boot.

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Re: quad boot on raspberry pi

Mon May 09, 2016 7:40 pm

If you use NOOBs installer than you can have more than 1 OS installed but only one running at any time. NOOBs splits the SD evenly between each OS minus what is used for NOOBS. NOOBS will boot the 1 selected OS each boot until you change it.
Unless specified otherwise my response is based on the latest and fully updated RPiOS Buster w/ Desktop OS.

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Re: quad boot on raspberry pi

Fri May 13, 2016 5:18 pm

Does NOOBS support Win10IOT? That is news to me!

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Re: quad boot on raspberry pi

Fri May 13, 2016 5:28 pm

Yes. NOOBS has supported Win10IoT from when it (WIn10IoT) was launched. (PINN does too :) ).
I can't remember from which version - 1.7 maybe?
PINN - NOOBS with the extras... https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=142574

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Re: quad boot on raspberry pi

Sat May 14, 2016 9:28 am

One reason for NOT doing it is: if you accidently trash one root fs you could damage another (or all 4) Personaly, I'd go with 4 cards.
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