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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: DrChaos on September 06, 2015, 12:02:27 pm

Title: Dual Boot
Post by: DrChaos on September 06, 2015, 12:02:27 pm

Hi,

I am new to this forum, although I was a silent reader for a long time. Now i am doing my first steps with Groovyarcade, which I want to use in my Naomi. I installed GA on an additional harddrive, but I would like to have a dual boot option. Is there an easy way to install a bootmanager?

thanks...

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: RobeeJ on September 11, 2015, 03:50:02 am

Is Naomi the Dreamcast arcade board?

GroovyArcade would have installed a bootloader already, so it would just need configuring for whatever original OS you need to launch.

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: DrChaos on September 13, 2015, 05:53:11 pm

Well, in other boards 'Naomi' is often used for the 'Naomi Universal cab', but that was often equppied with the Noami Arcade Board, which is similar to a Dreamcast. In my Case there is a Noami 1, so the answer is Yes ;)

Regarding the Bootloader - from my old days in Linux I now remember that the cahnges could be made by a textfile. Can someone point me to a documentation which works for GroovArcade?


Thanks a lot!
 

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: RobeeJ on September 14, 2015, 03:40:37 am

I'm not sure for certain, but you'd be able to tell pretty quickly, I think it uses syslinux:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Syslinux

Title: Re: Dual Boot
Post by: DrChaos on September 14, 2015, 06:26:25 pm

Thanks, I will check that out.