Boot loader for SD or internal?

Kadin

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I have CM7 (7.0.2) installed on my SD card and I like using that 90% of the time. Sometimes I want to switch over and boot via the stock NC OS though. Is there an easy solution to do this so I don't have to always remove the SD card first?

I noticed that when I'm in CM7 that there's an option to Reboot with 'bootloader' but that doesn't seem to do anything. It still boots up via the SD card. Is there a way to get an actual menu loader to show so I can pick which one I want?

Thanks!

[EDIT] Ok I found a post over on the xda forums for a multi-boot method. Seems to do exactly what I was looking for. I chose the option to boot normally via SD card or if I hold down the home button, it will boot via the stock internal. I'll post the link below for anyone else that might want to look at it.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947698&highlight=dual+boot
 
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So does your method allow you to actually boot into recovery as it appears it should? I don't know if it's because I'm booting CM7 off the SD card but I can never get CWM to boot even when I select 'Reboot in Recovery' in RM. It just always boots into CM7 instead.

What I've been doing is rebooting, taking the SD card out real quick, waiting for the Recovery option to ask for a disk and putting it back in. There has to be a better way. Without the SD in the NC, it just boots stock 1.2.

Any ideas if your method will fix this? I will add that even prior to this multi boot loader, I don't think it booted into CWM properly upon reboot even then...
 
It doesn't contain CWM, but I have booted into recovery a few times to update CM7 on the SD card.
 

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