Hello everyone!
I’ve been working on setting up dual boot on my UConsole—one system for playing retro games and another for security testing. Since managing both on a single SD card is quite complicated, I decided to try a hardware-level solution for dual booting. After some searching, I came across this handy SD card switcher on AliExpress:
SD Card Switcher on AliExpress
The Setup:
I’ve got two SD cards—one running Debian Bookworm and the other running Parrot OS (both images from Rex - thanks to him). At first, things didn’t work as expected. But after a bit of research, I found a solution that worked perfectly. Here’s the resource I used:
Geekworm Dual Micro SD Card Adapter Wiki
How to Fix the Booting Issue:
If you’re trying something similar, here’s a simple summary of the steps I followed:
- Backup
cmdline.txt
: Use this command to backup the file in case something goes wrong:
sudo cp /boot/cmdline.txt /boot/cmdline.txt.bak
For Bookworm, the file is located in /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt
.
2. Edit the cmdline.txt
: Open the cmdline.txt
file and find the line that looks like this:
root=PARTUUID=xxxxxxxx-xx
Replace it with:
root=/dev/mmcblk0p2
- Add a Debug Quirk: Append the following at the end of the
cmdline.txt
file:
sdhci.debug_quirks2=4
Now, I can easily switch between operating systems. All I have to do is power off the UConsole, flip the switch on the SD card adapter, and boot from the SD card I want!