[Cbe-oss-dev] [announce] Updated PS3 Linux Distro Kit released

[Wang, Baojun]

On Monday 20 August 2007, you wrote:
> ust be set in the partition table.
> You can check the boot flag by executing 'fdisk -l' after displaying kboot
> prompt.
>
> kboot> fdisk -l
>
> And if kboot success to find the root partition, kboot mount the root
> partition.
> You can check it by executing 'df' command
>
> kboot> df
>
> Regards,

hi,

The boot flag is only set on /dev/sda1, but it's for the /boot partition 
(100M), and df can not found the the root partition with the latest kboot 
(20070817), but with the old one (comes from yellowdog), it's OK.

here is the `fdisk -l' output:

     Device    Boot    Start      End     Blocks        Id      System
/dev/ps3da1	*	1	96	98288		83	Linux
/dev/ps3da4		97	44943	45923328	5	Extended
/dev/ps3da5		97	22032	22462448	83	Linux
/dev/ps3da6		22033	43968	22462448	82	Linux
/dev/ps3da7		43969	44943	998384		82	Linux swap

ps3da1	/boot
ps3da4	Extended
ps3da5	/
ps3da6	/backup
ps3da7	swap

I'm not sure why the new kboot don't try to mount the / partition. I've used

	e2label /dev/ps3da5	/

I've also cat /etc/kboot.conf while I got the kboot prompt

1) If there is no network:

root=LABEL=/

2) If network is avialiable (we have a dhcp server and also provide diskless 
linux)

default=nfsboot
timeout=10

nfsboot='tftp://192.168.1.1pxelinux.0 root=/dev/nfs \
ip=on nfsroot=192.168.1.1: '

Also, After I've upgraded the kernel to 2.6.23-rc3(20070817) and kboot (I can 
boot manually use `ps3da1:/vmlinux-2.6.23 root=/dev/ps3da5 ro 
video=ps3fb:mode:1' in kboot), When I'm running the distro with the new 
kernel, I can't reboot correctly any more, the PS3 is dead after unmounting 
file system, the Only thing I can do is reset manually. Do you have the same 
problem?

Thanks for the help.

  Regards.

Wang
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Wang, Baojun                                        Lanzhou University
Distributed & Embedded System Lab              http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn
School of Information Science and Engeneering        wangbj at lzu.edu.cn
Tianshui South Road 222. Lanzhou 730000                     .P.R.China
Tel:+86-931-8912025                                Fax:+86-931-8912022
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