Is neo1973 dual boot possible?

Lars Hallberg lah at micropp.se
Sun Oct 7 16:10:22 CEST 2007


Lorn Potter skrev:
> Krzysztof Kajkowski wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is it possible to have both Qtopia and OM environments on one phone?
>> One could be able to chooses system on startup (such as grub or lilo
>> chooses Linux or Windows ;). That would be useful - you could use
>> Qtopia env as a phone during day but at night you could reboot to OM
>> and start hacking ;)
> 
> No need to boot two systems.
> 
> The way I originally ported Qtopia to the neo was putting Qtopia on the
> sd, symlinking /opt/Qtopia to that, stopping gsmd and all the x-server,
> and running the qtopia startup script.
> 
> This probably could be a choice at init time, or some 'app' in 
> Neo/Qtopia that
> does this.
> 
> 
Is there any documentation on this? A wikipage or something. This is how 
I want to try/use Qtopia.

Don't know any of OpenMokos init system (yet, my GTA01 is on the way 
;-), but something equal to switching run level to switch forth and back 
between OpenMoko ui and Qtopia ui would be perfect!

/LaH





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