Dual-Boot 2 Rom in 1?

[rebelmuddlite]

would it be possible to take 2 roms and combine them with a ui at startup that lets you choose between the two?

i know its a longshot but you can dualboot on a pc, so why not its mobile buddy?

or if you could take all the files that are flashed to the rom normally and put them in a designated folder on sd for the 2nd rom. in other words, you could have say a conflipper rom on your main rom and have a juicy or mighty rom on your sd and choose which you want to boot at startup?

i highly doubt this will turn up any REAL results but it would be so amazing that i would buy a dev a lot of coffee if they made this into a reality, even though its probably just a dream, but hell MLKJ had a dream and now obama is president so who knows

[mikee4fun]

Originally Posted by rebelmuddlite

would it be possible to take 2 roms and combine them with a ui at startup that lets you choose between the two?

i know its a longshot but you can dualboot on a pc, so why not its mobile buddy?

or if you could take all the files that are flashed to the rom normally and put them in a designated folder on sd for the 2nd rom. in other words, you could have say a conflipper rom on your main rom and have a juicy or mighty rom on your sd and choose which you want to boot at startup?

i highly doubt this will turn up any REAL results but it would be so amazing that i would buy a dev a lot of coffee if they made this into a reality, even though its probably just a dream, but hell MLKJ had a dream and now obama is president so who knows

Negative, only can kind of do that with Android images, and that is after you boot into WMO. I did it on my old Titan.

[rebelmuddlite]

you mind me asking why this can't be done with windows mobile?

and i know that android runs on top of winmo after its booted.

im looking to run 2 winmos not simultaneously but seperately as in having a choice between 2 diff roms to boot up when you press the power button

[JHaidler]

sorry as im going a little offtopic here but did you just say you could android on a winmo phone?
im really interested
have you seen this for touch pro?

[syanni85]

Originally Posted by rebelmuddlite

and i know that android runs on top of winmo after its booted.

android does not, i repeat, DOES NOT, run ON TOP of winmo... winmo is shut off right before the linux kernel boots up... and thats why you have to soft reset your phone when you wanna go back to winmo from android...

just to clarify

[rebelmuddlite]

Originally Posted by syanni85

android does not, i repeat, DOES NOT, run ON TOP of winmo... winmo is shut off right before the linux kernel boots up... and thats why you have to soft reset your phone when you wanna go back to winmo from android...

just to clarify

thanks for clarifying, but dont you have to boot winmo before you can boot android, if im correct, thats where i got confused, again thanks for clarifying this for me, i was kind of unsure so i shouldn't have said i KNOW, i should've said i THINK, guess i should've THOUGHT and used the right words.

off topic - is there a functioning version of android yet that works right where the phone actually functions and makes calls and receives texts? or is it still basic boot and see how it works and thats it kind of demo-like jive goin on?

[syanni85]

no prob, you do have to boot winmo first because you must get into file explorer to launch Heret.exe.... but, i'm sure in the future, an advanced rom chef will create an ONLY android ROM when android is 100%

for the Touch Pro, they are FAAAR from complete... the Vogue has the most advanced android right now, practically finished i believe but i haven't looked that up in a while... you can catch videos of the Vogue's android on youtube

[gguruusa]

Of course it's possible, just not very pointful - easier to keep both images on SD and flash between them when you want to switch. Fundamentally, multi-boot selectors work by directing the bootstrap process among different partitions. ROMs have their code arranged neatly in partitions, so the same concept would conceivably work. Unlike your PC (which has near limitless hard drive space) phone's have relatively tiny flash space - so the gain would come with a lot of pain. Conceivably you could boot from SD, but that would be even more of a departure from existing code.

[sudermatt]

Nue had this on the Mogul. You would choose the ROM you wanted in Settings and it would reboot to your nue ROM. I liked it.

[cornelious2]

Originally Posted by sudermatt

Nue had this on the Mogul. You would choose the ROM you wanted in Settings and it would reboot to your nue ROM. I liked it.

no2chem you mean, but you weren't picking roms you were just enabling or disabling the camera in the same rom.