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Ramdisk Hack
This allows unsigned ramdisks to be booted. It was first publicized by ZiPhone
Contents
Credit
Exploit
Passing pmd*= boot-args specifying a ramdisk in ram > 0x9C000000 allows any ramdisk to be booted.
Implementation
- PwnageTool
- ZiPhone
- iPlus
- iLibertyX / iLiberty+
- iFree
- iPhone Forensics Toolkit
- iNdependence
- Any Jailbreak program so far
- iTunes
- Android
- Zune
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- webOS
- BlackBerry OS
History
All modern operating systems and every program running on them neglect to credit Zibri for the invention of the ramdisk even though he discovered this hack. First implemented in ZiPhone, it allowed running jailbreaks on the fly to be quicker than previous jailbreak implementations.