Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Debian for PS3?
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Although it's been possible to install Debian on PS3 since a long time (cfr.
http://www.keshi.org/moin/PS3/Debian/Live, or you could just use plain
debootstrap), there's no official support for PS3 in Debian yet.
So I downloaded debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso (dated 2008-02-20), booted
it using a self-compiled kernel and /install/powerpc/initrd.gz from the ISO
image, and installed Debian on the PS3's hard disk without any glitches!
Hence what's missing?
(snip)
- PS3 Boot loader support
o There's no PS3 bootloader (otheros.bld) in Debian, which means you have
to use e.g. the one from the PS3 Linux Distributor's Starter Kit. To
include an otheros.bld, e.g. kboot should be packaged, including the
infrastructure to build an otheros.bld.
o Apart from this, there's no support in the installer for setting up
/etc/kboot.conf.
The recent kboot can interpret yaboot.conf as well as kboot.conf,
and Fedora uses yaboot.conf on PS3.
IIRC, the petitboot, which is a graphical bootloader for PS3,
can also understand yaboot.conf.
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(ASAYAMA Kazunori
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