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Panajev2001a
17-Sep-2007, 23:41
References:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/

http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/cbe-oss-dev/2007-September/003263.html

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git


Previous relevant B3D threads on the subject:

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=44215

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=43859


This thread is for those Fedora 7 users which already have the new ps3 flash name (a Fedora kernel already pushed this change a while ago) and are now running Geoff Levand's custom kernel.

Now, some things to be downloaded:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20070831-ADDON/target/ps3pf_utils-2.0-1.ppc.rpm

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20070831-ADDON/target/kexec-tools-20070810-1.ppc64.rpm

Download (wget ...) and install (rpm -ihv or rpm -Uhv) those two RPM's and you will have solved your boot-game-os problem.

Use ps3-boot-game-os as your script of reference from now on.

As I posted in a thread a few minutes ago, you should install those two RPM's on your system.


Read the following bit from cbe-oss-dev's mailing-list:

After linux-2.6.23 is released I will remove the hack that allows
the ps3-linux.git kernel to be loaded from linux-2.6.16 based bootloaders.

All users of ps3-linux.git will need to update to a linux-2.6.23
based bootloader. To check the bootloader version, from the kboot
prompt type:

uname -rv


The latest kboot is here:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/kboot-20070831.bld

[...]

ps3-flash-util kboot-20070831.bld




Edit: for those without the regular ps3flash (tircky issue here), this should be of some advice to you (you might want to remobe that -w flag, it does not even work in the latest release of ps3-flash-util...):
Luca Barbato wrote:
> Hi, just a nit
>
> Geoff Levand wrote:
>>
>> ps3-flash-util kboot-20070831.bld
>>
>
> ps3-flash-util -w kboot-20070831.bld
>
> if you don't have /dev/ps3flash use /dev/sdb

There is a -d option that you can use to specify a
device node:

ps3-flash-util -d /dev/sdb -w kboot-20070831.bld

-Geoff