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CHAPTER 4. LIVERAM DISKS

CHAPTER 4

LiveRam Disks

Contents

4.1 Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.2 The Linux Boot Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

4.3 Easy Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.4 Hard Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.5 Kexecboots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

4.1 Interest

veRam Disks is an interesting way to try

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om without any great danger

(as you only lose

personal data and programs, i.e. internal conﬁguration). However, all the changes you will do

will not be kept.

A LiveRam Disk is simply a

.exe

ﬁle which can be executed from the File Explorer of your

Windows Mobile Edition.

It should be clear in your mind that these LiveRam Disks are less interesting for the developers;

as a result, they are less “up-to-date.” If you want to use up-to-date LiveRam Disks, you will have

to do some tricky things which will be given in 4.4, p. 11.

We shall give the important info about these two possibilities. To simplify the presentation, we

shall denote by “easy version” a version which is directly available on a website, and which is ready

to execute, on the opposite of “hard versions,” whose ﬁle is the result of a compilation of different

ﬁles.

We begin by a rough explanation about how Linux boots.

4.2 The Linux Boot Process

The Linux boot process is simple [10]:

More info about this at Chapter 1, p. 6, point ??.

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