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[iPod] Dual boot...how about dual bootloaders?

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keeegan:
I know the rockbox team is not affiliated with ipodlinux nor do you support their loader. I am just wondering if this is possible, and I thought I'd ask here first.
That being said, how about the ability to have the bootloader function normally when hold isn't activated (booting straight to rockbox with no delay), but when the hold switch is activated, bringing up ipl2 instead of booting the apple OS. I personally use rockbox 90% of the time and ipodlinux and apple firmware 10% of the time. I think this feature would be neat and others possibly might too.

saratoga:
We don't support (or have anything at all to do with) ipl2 here, but you can use it with rockbox last I heard.  Is what you're suggesting any different?

keeegan:
It's a little different I guess. I'm wanting the ipod to boot into rockbox like normal, but when the hold switch is on, have it load ipl2 instead of the apple firmware. Is this more clear?

saratoga:
So basically you want ipl2 to load rockbox by default, and only give you a choice if you don't have hold selected?

Have you tried asking the ipl2 developers?  We don't really have any control over ipl2 here, so theres not much we can do about how it works.

keeegan:
No, I'm wanting to modify your bootloader to load ipl2 instead of the apple firmware.

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