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Alex313031 / ThoriumOS

ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs, Widevine, Kernel 5.15, Linux firmware/modules support, Nouveau, Intel microcode, and extra packages.
https://thorium.rocks/thoriumos
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Dual boot #44

Open r0n121 opened 10 months ago

r0n121 commented 10 months ago

Is there a way to dual boot thorium os ?

Alex313031 commented 6 months ago

@r0n121 Yes, but it isn't super easy. And it also depends on what OS you are wanting to dual boot with. You can install it, and then mount the drive on a Linux machine and shrink partition 1 (the "Stateful" partition), and then install a Linux distro onto the free space that is created. However, dual booting windows is more complicated, as you have to do the above, as well as reinstall the ChromiumOS bootloader, and add an entry to boot the Windows partition. Unfortunately, while FydeOS has much of their stuff open source, their code they are using to allow easy dual boot via the GUI during initial installation is not open source, and I have no idea how to implement it myself.