Preparing RootFS

In the next part we'll repartition device's disk storage to create 2 additional partitions for second OS. After that we'll restore iOS root filesystem (also known as RootFS) disk image to one of them. Best way to do it - use ASR (Apple System Restore) - instrument from iOS ramdisk which is used to restore RootFS in native restores/updates. But in order to take advantage of it, original DMG image must be decrypted and converted back to UDZO disk image format (more info here)

Decryption

First of all, we need to decrypt and extract original RootFS image:

dmg extract originalRootFS.dmg decrypted.dmg -k key

In case of successful decryption, you'll see something like this in the end of log:

Convertion

To be able to pass our decrypted image to ASR, we need to convert it to UDZO Image Format - UDIF zlib-compressed read-only image. After decryption it becomes raw HFS+ volume (just like if you dump some partition to file using dd)

We still need to use dmg:

dmg build decrypted.dmg UDZO.dmg

In the end of process you'll see something like this:



That's all. Now it's time for repartition

> Part 2: Partitioning