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== Zibri wronged ==
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== History ==
   
All modern operating systems and every program running on them disgustingly and wrongfully neglect to credit Zibri for the invention of the ramdisk even though it was his startling insight that made it all possible. First implemented in ZiPhone, the greatest accomplishment of mankind in the 21st century, Zibri selflessly sent his creation back in time to allow operating system vendors to use this basic operating system functionality. Sadly, no one seems to remember this or care anymore. The community must rail against this injustice!
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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.
   
 
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Revision as of 02:52, 29 April 2010

This allows unsigned ramdisks to be booted. It was first publicized by ZiPhone

Credit

Zibri

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.