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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: dankology on April 18, 2012, 01:38 am

Title: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: dankology on April 18, 2012, 01:38 am
I can't seem to figure out how to boot liberte, I've followed the website's instructions to a T, my only problem is when I turn my computer on to boot it up I can't figure out what its on.  I've set my boot order usb hard drive first, and the other usb option 2nd but still nothing.  My boot list only contains like floppy drive, cd rom drive, and hard drive (Im going to restart soon and write everything down)

Anyone have a clue how to get me into liberte?  Im using an hp pavillion g6-1c58dx notebook right now but I have access to a toshiba and another HP along with a couple PCs, all running windows vista/windows 7 (this one is windows 7)
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: mdmamail on April 18, 2012, 01:43 am
You could 'chain load' boot, meaning your USB drive has instructions to boot the MicroSD card. Just needs a copy of grub with instructions where to boot the SD card.

I'm assuming you have card readers that can't be booted in the BIOS. As microsd is different from usb
I just burn Liberte to disk, boot that and then use USB and MicroSD cards for the persistent drive encrypted.

I'll look around for yous. Can also download Virtualbox and select your MicroSD card as holding the operating system
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: dankology on April 18, 2012, 01:49 am
Ill look into virtualbox now
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: mdmamail on April 18, 2012, 02:09 am
It should work on an SD card though, with your ~/persist encrypted drive ready to go. Try another laptop with the BIOS updated to latest version.

When I used Liberte I just burned it to disk, and plugged in a USB drive once it booted to desktop which automounted with my encrypted files on it. I used Applications->System Tools->Disk Utility to unencrypt and encrypt the drive which held GPG keys and other things. I stopped using Liberte because of it's bullshit root lockout.

Tails works really well with this:
https://store.ironkey.com/

Boot Tails/Amnesic in bridge mode (you get bridge IPs from Tor by emailing them, it autoresponds) then plug in the Ironkey and double click it's linux.sh file. Enter password, your hardware encrypted USB drive is now ready with all your Truecrypt hidden containers on it.

Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: philter3 on April 18, 2012, 02:14 am
I stopped using Liberte because of it's bullshit root lockout.



Hold up.. Liberte locks you out of root?  How the hell does THAT work...
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: mdmamail on April 18, 2012, 02:15 am
I stopped using Liberte because of it's bullshit root lockout.



Hold up.. Liberte locks you out of root?  How the hell does THAT work...

You get a 4min root console when it firsts boots though.
I just make my own live CDs now and use persistence, all the docs available on Tails and Liberte how they do it.

Somebody must run Liberte on a MicroSD card to answer this guy's question, I'm guessing just his BIOS doesn't recognize it.. try another laptop/system
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: dankology on April 18, 2012, 02:26 am
Its looking like virtualbox works I havent started liberte yet but everything looks good to go....now how do I go about hiding virtualbox? 

Im about to try and boot liberte from the micro sd on another two laptops, one hp and one toshiba.  Will it even boot on a PC?
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: dankology on April 18, 2012, 03:33 am
VB works but I can't seem to actually connect to the internet.  I can add my wifi spot but I can't connect to it....meh, ill continue working!
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: QTC on April 18, 2012, 02:36 pm
Its looking like virtualbox works I havent started liberte yet but everything looks good to go....now how do I go about hiding virtualbox? 

Im about to try and boot liberte from the micro sd on another two laptops, one hp and one toshiba.  Will it even boot on a PC?
try vboxportable in an encrypted truecrypt container. also liberte works best on bare metal not in a vm but that's something I've kinda taken on faith from the liberte people. I will have to research/recall why exactly this is.
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: UKGrower on April 18, 2012, 04:22 pm
I seem to recall that some laptops treat their internal card readers as floppy drives for booting purposes, so you could try that option.  Another approach is to boot from a USB card reader, rather than the inbuilt one.

I've only used tails myself, so I can't offer much more input than that.
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: dankology on April 19, 2012, 02:52 am
Tried that, nothing seemed to work still.  Im about to test a couple other computers and see if i can get it to work, is there some reason I can't connect to the internet on liberte on the VM?  I can add my wireless connection but it won't connect to it at all.
Title: Re: Booting Liberte from a MicroSD card on an HP Notebook?
Post by: cacoethes on April 19, 2012, 03:08 am
I stopped using Liberte because of it's bullshit root lockout.



Hold up.. Liberte locks you out of root?  How the hell does THAT work...

You get a 4min root console when it firsts boots though.
I just make my own live CDs now and use persistence, all the docs available on Tails and Liberte how they do it.

Somebody must run Liberte on a MicroSD card to answer this guy's question, I'm guessing just his BIOS doesn't recognize it.. try another laptop/system

I wanted to install Liberte on a tiny little micro SD card, but my laptop will not boot from the built-in card reader.  I found an easy enough work around, though:

Went to Walmart and got a micro SD card reader (Targus brand) for about nine bucks.

Installed Liberte to the SD card, and updated it with the current snapshot, just as I did with a USB thumb drive.

Copied my persist folder from the USB drive I had been using and onto the micro SD card.

Stuck the micro SD card into the Targus card reader.

Stuck the card reader into a USB port.  BIOS boot order was already set to boot from FDD  (old terminology- since there is no "floppy disk drive", FDD is actually USB)

Rebooted.

Liberte fired right up, just as if it had when installed on a thumb drive.