On 03/22/2009 12:44 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 10:45:25AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: >> On 03/21/2009 10:38 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> > That is the BD drive. Did you have a disc in the drive at that point? >> > If so, what kind of disc? >> >> The mini.iso installer, a CD-ROM. > > The fact that you were successful makes me doubt it's a serious problem, > but it warrants investigating. > > The installer should store some logs on your hard disk, under > /var/log/installer. Could you send me those files? Note that it may > contain some private information, such as your root password, and a list > of the packages you've got installed.
I'll send you that tomorrow. >> PS3 uses petitboot (http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/). >> It is a kexec based bootloader which can read kboot.conf and >> yaboot.conf files. >> >> Due to the way the PS3 boots, the user must install a bootloader >> to flash memory before they can load a distro's installer. >> >> I'll try the yaboot install and see what happens. Is it possible >> to arrange for the installer to just create the yaboot.conf >> without installing yaboot? > > No, that won't work. I simply wasn't aware of the particular way in > which the PS3 is booted. > > I see that petitboot is free software. In that case, we should be able > to at least put it on the CD images. Yes, but as Wartan mentioned, it is not so practical for distros to build it from sources. Just FYI, I put binary releases of petitboot here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/ > Is it possible to install or update the flash booter from Linux, or can > one only do that from the PS3 builtin operating system? It can be done from either. From Linux, it is done with ps3-flash-util from the ps3-utils package (http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ps3-utils). Command is 'ps3-flash-util -w image'. -Geoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
