has anyone tried this?

what are it's benefits? can you put linux apps like emulators on it?

does it only work when its connected to the pc?

 Ok at first excuse my bad english, but i hope you will understand what i say.

When the Dingoo gets stuck at Boot 0, then its becouse you are using the wrong USB Driver.

U have to use the Driver that are in the dual_boot_installer_20090625.zip.

I think you are using the Driver for the Unbricker Tool, and with them it wont work.

Hope i could HELP you!

Here is an excellent guide that has been translated from french to english

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2F...

Thanks mrdrilleraddict.

i'll have a good read of it later

He found and fixed the cause of that. Grab the latest release of the dual boot installer for the fix.

BTW, there are instructions included with the installer in a simple text file. The whole process really isn't very hard though. I think the biggest problem most are running into is they may still be using the ChinaChips driver that the various firmware flash utilities often call for. You'll have to go to the device manager while it's plugged in and uninstall that driver, then install the one included with the dual boot installer.

Oh, and there's an important reminder in that readme for those who choose to ignore that file. The flash memory used for the boot sector is the sort that can only be rewritten a more limited number of times compared to what most are used to. Instead of somewhere on the order of a million rewrites for each section, this is closer to 1000 and to make things worse, the boot sector has to always be in the same place. In other words, there is a relatively limited number of rewrites possible and it would be wise not to overdo it with too much flashing. (Of course, we're still talking about somewhere in the range of 1000, so it's just something to bear in mind.)

Actually, there's a piece of possibly good news here. In the process of all this he has figured out the problem with the screen tearing. Though he hasn't found an exact solution, one thing he found looks like it might partially solve the problem for some things.

I've discovered one piece of bad news here though. The bootloader can't handle FAT32. In other words, if you're using a big memory card, you'll still be limited to some 2GB or so for the first partition. (Though I could swear I've read that a FAT16 partition can go up to 4GB, I can't even seem to do it with non-MS tools like Acronis Disk Director. I may look into this later, but, atm I have an extra smaller memory card handy that I can just dedicate to linux on the Dingoo until the linux setup becomes more useful -- and even then it may not matter since I may be able to just make the EXT3 partition larger.)