@PINE64 While I'm waiting for delivery, is there a tutorial somewhere on how to boot to Android and Chrome OS?

I don't think there's a step-by-step guide written, but it is pretty simple and quite a lot like any single board computer: flash an SD card and insert it.

If you want to install to eMMC, you flash it while booted from SD, or use a special SD-to-eMMC installer image.

@PINE64 That's what I was thinking, but where does one download an image (to burn to an SD card) that boots to Chrome OS and another that boots to Android? I thought Google only allows Chrome OS to be distributed on official Chromebooks.

@adam Oh, you want to dual boot? Technically it's possible, but I don't know of anyone who has set that up.

Also yes, it would be Chromium OS. There is already an image ready of it. :)

@PINE64 I was under the impression that I could have your built-in Debian Linux regular boot, and then make a couple MicroSD cards for booting to Chromium OS and Android whenever I felt like it. So I was trying to search for info on that.

@adam

Yes, you can do that. The PBP will boot with priority to the SD card. So if you have separate SD cards for Android and Chromium OS, you could swap them out as you wanted.

@PINE64 Are you allowed to publicly or privately point me in the direction of PBP compatible bootable SD card images?

@PINE64 Ah! That's what I was looking for! Thanks!

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