Boot choice zynthian or raspbian gui

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Hello,
when i power on zynthian hardware, it automatically boot zynthian. It is possible
to create a window on startup with a multiple choice?
p.ex.

  1. Zynthian
  2. Raspbian GUI
  3. Wine

Thanks

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Actually the ability to specify the starting screen in the zynth would be dearly useful. To start in the audio recorder for instance would be great for backing tracks.

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yes, but how is it possible

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Well the zynth side is an internal issue, but what you are describing would in simple terms require 3 different sd cards, but I understand there are other mechanisms that might allow different environments. At the end it’s just grub at the start and that allows that sort of selection or that’s what I understand. It’s not something I’ve tried.

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hmmmm… :thinking:

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yes, that’s what i mean

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Is it possible to simply start the raspbian gui from zynthian?

The raspbian desktop

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the lxde screen?

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Not from within the zynthian, as the zynthian build only has the files relevant to using it as a zynthian. Obviously the raspbian desktop is a different kind of beast and requires you add a lot of components with possibly different dependancies that could well conflict with specific components required by the zynth.

Sorry if this a bit possibly but that’s probably the truth. You are asking the machine to produce a software environment that live harmoniously whilst making different calls on the hardware.

There might be other mechanisms using devices that hold the sd images separately within a larger file system but I’ve no personal experience of doing that. My personal solution is to run two pis side by side. A pi4 running the zynth and a pi 3 cos one became spare running raspbian.

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The simplest method would be to use the spi boot available in the pi4 to enable booting from usb and reordering the boot sequence so that a usb os takes precidence over the sd card.

Then you can plug in a usb with a graphical desktop OS and boot from that.

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Berryboot may help you :
https://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot

Edit: after having a look at the documentation, I understand that all operating systems have to share the same kernel version. To be confirmed …