Is it possible to use Armbian on an SD card to boot to another OS on an SSD?

[Folaht Pjehrsohmehj]

I like Guix system. 

I really like it on my desktop, 

so now I want to use Guix system as the OS for my Orange Pi 5 Pro as well.  

 

The problem is, the Arm distro for Guix System is only available for Generic EFI 

and I didn't have the money to buy a Orange Pi 6 Plus.  

 

But I figure, why not install Armbian on SD card and have it boot Guix System on the SSD?

Is that possible and if so, how would I achieve that?  

 

So far I've been able to 'dd' the guix system install ISO onto the SSD.  

It seems to have an iso9660 filesystem.  

Edited 5 hours ago by Folaht Pjehrsohmehj

[bedna]

Maybe I am misunderstanding your question but:

Armbian is one operating system, and Guix system is another operating system, so no.

It's the equivalent of asking "can I install debian but boot NixOS from debian on another storage device".

Unless it's a virtual machine you are talking about, you might be able to run a Guix system as a virtual machine in armian, but I don't think that is what you are asking.

 

If you want to run Guix system, you need to boot Guix system.

 

If it's just the package manager Guix you are talking about, then afaik also no (if you are talking about the guile scheme), for that to work you need to run Guix system, just like you need to use NixOS to run nix package manager. But I could be incorrect.

Edited 1 hour ago by bedna