Make iPhone a bootable USB Disk - Tutorial

One of our friends, limneos has published an excellent article about using an iPhone in quite unexpected way - to make it bootable device for the PC. 

That is, you can boot a PC  using your little shiny iPhone or iPod, it seems it should work for Mac too, but you will need to google for bootefi too. 

http://limneoswizard.blogspot.com/2009/09/make-iphone-bootable-usb-disk-boot-your.html


If you already have disk image you can save some time.  Make sure it has .img extension and copy it to the USB Drive volumes folder.

$ scp windows7.bin root@iphone:/var/Volumes/windows7.img

now you need to update LunConfig.plist file in the same directory to let USB Drive know about new volume:

$ scp root@iphone:/var/Volumes/LunConfig.plist . # copy file to the desktop

use your favorite text editor to edit this XML file and insert the following lines:

       <dict>
        <key>ReadOnly</key>
        <false/>
        <key>SectorCount</key>
        <integer>488871</integer>
        <key>Type</key>
        <integer>1</integer>
        <key>VolumeName</key>
        <string>windows7</string>
    </dict>

USB Drive ignores SectorCount for existing volumes and calculates number of sectors from a file size.  Next copy file back to the device:

$ scp LunConfig.plist root@iphone:/var/Volumes/

and plug USB cable to the iPhone.  USB Drive re-reads config and will mount your drive as a new disk.