On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 10:30 AM Massimiliano <massi.ergosum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to understand if it's possible to boot the Librem 5 from an
external usb drive [1].
Fedora will boot off what ever storage the firmware supports, it also
depends on where you expect the firmware to resided.
I think that kexec could be a good start point.
Not sure what kexec provides in this context.
> Any suggestion is welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Massi
>
> [1]
https://forums.puri.sm/t/multi-boot-for-other-os-in-librem-5/12701
>
> Il giorno ven 19 mar 2021 alle ore 13:04 Massimiliano
> <massi.ergosum(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> > Il giorno ven 19 mar 2021 alle ore 11:30 Peter Robinson
> > <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:24 AM Massimiliano
<massi.ergosum(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > No, I mean general andorid consumer phones aren't
> >
> > Sure. I hope the Librem 5 (and the community around it) will be different.
> >
> > > I think form the PoV of the phosh UX they are, I've no clue about the
> > > HW side of things. I don't follow it closely enough.
> >
> > Ok.
> >
> > > > Nice, is there something about Plasma Mobile?
> > >
> > > Not a clue as to the exact focus, you could maybe join the channel and ask
;-)
> >
> > Ok, just curious. I notice that Phosh is dominant.
> >
> > > It's really not, we use the same tools in core Fedora to build both
> > > x86 and arm. ATM a lot of it's not complete, there's a handful of
> > > remixes, when things get more complete the plan is to do a proper
> > > spin. This is detailed on the wiki page the last I looked.
> >
> > Very interesting.
> >
> > > Well the aarch64 devices on Fedora all boot UEFI basically just like a PC
> >
> > I'd like to test. Hope this will happen soon.
> >
> > Thanks again.