I would personally really like to be able to boot a computer on my linux phone, using a regular usb-miniusb cable.
I know that USB boot isn't available on every computer in the same implementation, but nowaday's ones should. Woud it be possible, in file storage mode, or a dedicated boot mode, to let the phone appear as a bootable usb device? It would be just perfect to have geexbox on the device, or any lightweight linux distro (security oriented for instance, a NAS distro, a firewall one...) and toold (memtest...), with grub? This phone could become the hacker's swiss knife :) In fact the main question is: can we install grub on it? And will the computer run it? I don't know the exact technical difficulties involved to sure to be able to boot on most computers. Just a question: will the phone be able to recharge while on boot mode? And another: would if be possible to have a self rolling std USB plug integrated in the device? I know it sounds stupid, but it would be soo perfect... Doesn't have to be long though...
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