Dual boot Batocera and other Linux distributions
The most common way of booting Batocera for PC is to use a USB pen drive. You can use it along a dedicated partition on your hard drive to host ROMs, while booting in USB.
However, some people prefer to have Batocera directly installed on the main hard drive, along with another OS. Here are some examples on how to host Batocera with popular Linux distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Ubuntu Linux
Install Ubuntu
Follow your favorite method for the initial Ubuntu install.
Once Ubuntu ins installed, make sure the command grub-customizer
is available on your system (it is available from Ubuntu repositories).
Batocera partitions
Create 2 consecutive partitions on your hard drive
- partition 1 : type = fat32, name = BATOCERA
- partition 2 : type = ext4. It must be created right after the BATOCERA partition.
- download boot.tar.xz and unzip it on the BATOCERA partition.
Configure the Ubuntu grub
Use grub-customizer
: create new and write BATOCERA as its name or anything you like, with type “other”.
Then, with gparted
, find the UUID from your BATOCERA partition. In the example below, 3377-44C4 is my UUID, don't forget to adapt to yours.
Paste the following code:
insmod fat search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 3377-44C4 linux /boot/linux label=BATOCERA console=tty3 quiet loglevel=0 vt.global_cursor_default=0 initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Save and reboot.
Linux Mint
For other distributions like Linux Mint 19.03, you can use the following method.
Install Linux Mint
Follow your favorite method for the initial Mint install.
Batocera partitions
Create 2 consecutive partitions on your hard drive
- partition 1 : type = fat32, name = BATOCERA
- partition 2 : type = ext4. It must be created right after the BATOCERA partition.
- download boot.tar.xz and unzip it on the BATOCERA partition.
Configure the grub boot loader
$ sudo wget https://batocera.org/upgrades/grub/15_batocera -O /etc/grub.d/15_batocera $ sudo chmod a+x /etc/grub.d/15_batocera $ sudo update-grub ... Image batocera found on 3377-44C4 ...
Then, reboot.
- dual_boot_ubuntu_batocera.linux.txt
- Last modified: 5 months ago
- by lbrpdx