Well, this is my very same question I posted here [1] (read the "newbie question" #1 at the end of the post). There were some interesting answers, e.g. this one [2], which I didn't tried for lack of time. Unfortunately no one still has been able to complete the page [3] that the "sebastian.linux" wrote on the wiki with the steps to perform an easy backup/restore under the dual boot setup, hopefully with the same straightforward and simple way of writing. The possibility of an easy backup/restore of the system is a natural consequence of that setup, so it would be appropriate in that wiki page, if someone could test/find a working way to achieve it. -- Antonio [1] http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=35170&postcount=26 [2] http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=35753&postcount=71 [3] http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_easily_boot_from_mmc_card/ > 2. is it ok/possible that i make a backup of the ext2 partition (e.g > using dd and just tar it up as an image) so that i can "reflash" my > ext2 partition on the memory card everytime i want to return the > initial state of my dual boot?