Dual Boot iPhone/iPod Touch
Further to me reading about the possibilty of allowing it to have more than one “bootable” partition, I have dual booted my iPod Touch.
Now I have 4 partitions on my Touch, the standard /dev/disk0s1 = 300Mb, /dev/disk0s2 = 26GB plus a “recovery” /dev/disk0s3 = 300Mb and a to be utilised /dev/disk0s4 = 4GB.
I am currently building my mips toolchain on a Gentoo VM so that I can start looking into a Linux install on the 4th partition.
I followed the information in this very well written up page on iphone-dev here.
Happy Tinkering!
Cheers,
Dan.
Update: I’m a numpty, it’s not a MIPS is it…. it’s ARM! Doh!
I am very interested in setting up my iPod touch for dual boot (just for fun) and would like an update on your progress and any help you can give pointing me towards some resources on this topic. Thank you
Comment by Kevin — July 29, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Hi Kevin,
I need to get back to this work, I worked with my iPod Touch being dual bootable for a few weeks. The main reason I looked into this is for Linux. I need to check back on the iPhone Linux project over at http://www.iphonelinux.org/ as things are starting to come together over there.
Cheers,
Dan.
Comment by dan — July 29, 2008 @ 10:50 pm