Hi everybody ! :slight_smile: Is it possible to boot a Librem phone on a usb stick of Tails ? I haven’t a Librem phone yet, so I’d like to know… Thanks for your answers.

Currently, no. This is what you will want to track as it is the primary pre-requisite https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/10972/

[image] OpojOJirYAlG: Currently, no. Also currently “no” because you can’t boot the Librem 5 from USB stick at all? However I believe that is theoretically fixable either by extending the boot support or by doing a chained boot. (A chained boot is probably acceptable in the use case where Ta…

[image] irvinewade: I believe that is theoretically fixable either by extending the boot support or by doing a chained boot. [image] Comparing specs of upcoming Linux phones u-boot starts from eMMC or USB (uuu) while holding down Volume Up. (Can chain boot from microSD with jumpdrive aft…

[image] fsflover: Tails on Librem 5 would really be amazing. Perfect for traveling to untrusted places. Unfortunately Tails isn’t available for ARM, although the Tails developers have been thinking about it for quite a while: [image] ARM_platforms · Wiki · tails / blueprints · GitLab …

[image] fsflover: u-boot starts from eMMC or USB (uuu) while holding down Volume Up. I think that means that uboot can load from USB when the phone is connected to a host computer (and the host computer is running uuu) i.e. serial downloader mode. I don’t think uboot can load from USB when a…

[image] irvinewade: So e.g. either a USB flash drive or a USB portable drive would be ruled out for now. While the bootloader can’t be loaded from there, the new u-boot based on up-to-date mainline version can access USB devices including the SD card now (but it’s not being installed by defau…

Libem phone and Tails

Hardware Librem 5

fsflover April 21, 2022, 3:59pm 5

Tails on Librem 5 would really be amazing. Perfect for traveling to untrusted places.