When you’re only using the included BerryBoot images, such as Raspbian and Puppy Linux, installation is a point and click affair. Adding Distributions to the BerryBoot System Manually You can select your operating system with a keyboard, mouse, or if you’re using your Raspberry Pi unit with an HDMI video cable and a home theater system/HDTV that supports CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), you can use the up and down selection arrows on your remote control to make your selections. Whether you edit the value or not, the BerryBoot menu will always be the first thing you see on booting up from a powered down state or rebooting from within any of your installed operating systems (such as Raspbian). There you can click on Advanced Configuration tab (which is hidden, hit the double arrow on the right hand side of the menu bar) and then edit the value “bootmenutimeout” found in the uEnv.txt to a value besides 10. If you wish to change that value you can hit the Edit menu button in the lower right corner, which will return you to the BerryBoot menu editor. The default timeout for the boot menu selection is 10 seconds. If you didn’t, it will just be idling, waiting for you to select which operating system you want to boot into. If you set a default operating system in the previous step, it will be automatically counting down to boot it. A moment later you will be kicked back to the main BerryBoot menu like so: We’re opting to make Raspbian our default operating system:Īt this point, we’re ready to exit the editor and try out the multi-boot process. When the installation of the second operating system image is complete, you can then select the one you wish to be the default and click the Make default button. This will return you to the Add OS menu we were in just a moment ago-we’re going to add OpenELEC to our BerryBoot system now. While all those features and options are great, what we’re most interested in now is adding an additional operating system.
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In addition to all of that, you can also tap on the small double arrow located on the far right side to access the advanced configuration (allows you to edit the configuration and system files used by BerryBoot), set a password on BerryBoot, repair damaged file systems, and switch from the GUI menu editor to the terminal. You can backup the entire SD card or individual operating system installs to an external storage device. You can clone the operating system (handy if you want to do two distinct projects with Raspbian, for example). You can edit the properties of the individual images to change the name and the memory allocation. You can add another operating system or remove existing ones, as well as set the default operating system. Here in the menu editor, you can perform a wide variety of functions. Once the image has finished downloading and installing, you’ll be presented with the BerryBoot menu editor: