Will you use PureOS or another distro?

[kieran]

@lperkins2

In the worst case, you can boot to the integrated OS, then kexec to the SD card.

Yes, but I want to use it for backup and recovery, so it needs to work in scenarios where the eMMC disk is not bootable because someone has hosed it (i.e. disk hardware functioning but content not usable).

A USB disk connected via the USB-C port (with adapter if necessary) would be an alternative to booting from µSD card.

Booting from µSD card has been discussed inconclusively before:

Boot from external storage?

Will the librem 5 be able to optionally boot from an external storage (SD card / USB OTG drive)? This could open interesting possibilities, such as using a backup copy of the OS in case of problems, or using live distros such as Tails.

Librem 5 OS bootable from SD card?

Privacy starts and ends with control over your data. For that the OS and core files need to be removable from the device easily. Encryption means little if you get forced - by physical violence, repression or else, or even torture - to give up your password. Hence any privacy promissed by devices like Librem 5 is delusional, if the OS can`t be booted from a removable storage. More and more nations demand that users decrypt their device on port of entry. Corporations hence issue “clean” devices …