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Post #2178534
2026-02-22 05:43 UTC
@justsoup@mstdn.social @DenJohn@mas.to @fun@berkeley.edu.pl Is it possible to boot these from cold boot into Linux? I thought I read that the iDevices that could run Linux needed to be externally booted each time.
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@justsoup@mstdn.social 2026-02-22 05:45
@CalcProgrammer1@mastodon.social @DenJohn@mas.to @fun@berkeley.edu.pl You're correct. The exploit is tethered, so if the device powers off you have to redo the expoit. Luckily, booting and reexploiting iBoot doesn't cause any data loss, so anything on the device (e.g. a distro rootfs) stays safe. There are ideas to shim the poweroff function in Linux to instead enter a very deep sleep so iBoot is never interacted with, so powering back on normally can be mimicked.