For Android phone users, almost everyone knows that connecting your phone to a computer via USB allows it to function as a USB drive for file storage. But did you know that an Android phone can also be used to boot Linux on a computer? First, let's discuss computer booting. When you press the power button, components like the CPU and memory receive power and begin executing a pre-installed program on the motherboard called BIOS. BIOS then starts your operating system in the following ways: It searches devices in the boot order sequence (optical drive, hard disk, network, etc.) as configured. If a bootable device is found, it executes the code on that device to start the system. If you press the boot menu key (usually Esc or F12) to manually select the hardware,...