<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi, <br><br>I like what I saw about Petitboot, and decided to give it try tonight. <br><br>My PS3 has Ubuntu 7.10, and the otheros.bld is still the one comes with the install CD. I copied the petitboot otheros.bld to my usb flashdrive at PS3/otheros directoy. PS3 find it ok, and when I reboot, the UI comes up fine. First only 1 icon (the hard disk) appears on the left, and nothing appears on the right. I said oh oh. When I accidently press the down key, the hard disk icon get selected, and then the boot selection of my Ubuntu appears on the right (linux=... and old=...). So this is the first issue: petitboot should select one on the left automatically. In this case, the hard disk should be selected by default.<br><br>I selected the 1st item (linux=.. ), Booting linux... appears on the
status line. A good sign. However, there is no hard disk activity. Waited for about 10 minutes, and nothing progressed: the GUI still there. So it didn't boot my linux. <br><br>Before the GUI appears, I do see some error about mount ps3da3 error: Invalid parameter. ps3da5 etc. After I selected linux=.., I could switch my tty to the error console, so I am not sure if any error printed out. <br><br>Here is my partition:<br>> more /proc/partitions<br>major minor #blocks name<br> 254 0 26225012 ps3da<br> 254 1 3903763 ps3da1<br> 254 2 1 ps3da2<br> 254 5 2000061 ps3da5<br> 254 6 10000431 ps3da6<br> 254 7 4996183 ps3da7<br><br>And here is my
fstab: <br>> more /etc/fstab<br># /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0<br># /dev/ps3da1<br>UUID=aeb.. 5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br># /dev/ps3da7<br>UUID=a45.. 7 /data ext3 defaults 0 2<br># /dev/ps3da6<br>UUID=d8f.. /home ext3 defaults
0 2<br># /dev/ps3da5<br>UUID=04f.. none swap sw 0 0<br>/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0<br># cell development<br>none /spu spufs gid=spu 0 0<br><br>Could my fstab used UUID instead of the dev name such as /dev/ps3da1? Can I change it to the dev name? <br><br>Any help will be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Jiafu<br></div></div><br>
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