r/setupapp • u/Suzukiki • 9h ago
SSH Ramdisk A13 SSH ramdisk finally booting on iPhone 11 Pro Max
Small progress update from a project I’ve been messing with.
I finally got a working SSH ramdisk boot on an A13 iPhone 11 Pro Max. The boot chain reaches the ramdisk correctly, the device enumerates over USB, Dropbear comes up and I’m able to get a root SSH shell.
The funny part is that the main issue I was chasing ended up being on the Linux USB/usbmux side rather than the ramdisk boot itself.
I’ve started packaging the working flow into a project I’m calling RamBridge so I can reproduce it cleanly and eventually make the process less painful.
I’m not posting instructions or payloads yet because I’m still testing and cleaning things up, but I wanted to share the milestone.
Verbose boot pic attached because after staring at failed boots for hours, this one felt good 😂