Dual Boot with the same SSD

[luizcrf]

Hello, sorry for my English.
I have an Orange Pi 5 8gb and a 512gb nvme SSD. I would like to use it to install 2 operating systems (Android 12 + Batocera).
This way, when starting the orange pi, it asks which operating system I want to start on.

Is this possible?

[Igor]

47 minutes ago, luizcrf said:

I would like to use it to install 2 operating systems (Android 12 + Batocera).

This forum is related to Armbian. For general Orangepi questions consider asking in their forums. We don't use Android nor Batocera here.
 

[compent]

If the question was "Can I dual boot different variations of Armbian from the same SSD", then, for the most part, this would likely apply to any combination of operating systems.

 

At present there is no way (that I have seen) that dual boot from the same source can be achieved and I would say that any expectation that Orange Pi would develop such an option should be as close to zero as you can get.

 

Whether any third party option will be developed is anybody's guess.

 

Something like Pinn that is available for the Raspberry Pi would be nice but with the current state of OS development from Rockchip and OrangePi as it is, he prospect of something earlier than much, much later would be akin to expecting to get blood from a stone.

 

As for posting on the Official Orange Pi forums, note that there is pretty much zero response from the company. The forums are choc full of spam and so the only responses that you will get are from the communities that post, which are rather small. There is more frustration on there, rathe than solutions and advances.

 

So for now, the best dual boot option is to have one OS on an NVME and another on an SD card, where you have to insert or remove the card to be the determining factor to which OS you wish to use.

 

I'm not sure that we will see any significant development in the RK3588 that will come close to match what is happening with the Raspberry Pi 5 until at least 2025, if ever.

 

But if you really do need dual boot from the same source right now, you would be better off with a Raspberry Pi 5 or an X86 mini PC.

 

I did see a video on YouTube a few months back from Firefly who were supposedly unveiling a multi boot OS option that seemed to be a variant of Petitboot that can be used on some AMLogic devices but nothing seem to have materialised but perhaps worth contacting them just to determine whether the option is actually going to roll out to their own RK3588 products.

 

Edited May 14 by compent

[Michael Robinson]

You can run android 11 from docker.

 

Android can emulate everything batocera can if not more.

Edited May 15 by Michael Robinson