[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3-linux.git: legacy bootloader hack to be removed

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Sep 12, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Geoff Levand wrote:

> 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

I have flashed our PS3 with this image and it won't boot any more  
automatically.  The problem is that kboot does not mount the root  
file system, so it does not find the correct kboot.conf and cannot  
load our setup.

Based on e2label, I see that /dev/ps3da1 correctly has '/' as its  
label, so kboot should be finding it... but it doesn't.  The  
installed Fedora 6 system finds this without problems (it also uses  
LABEL=/ in fstab).

If I use '/dev/ps3da1:/boot/...' manually from the kboot prompt, I  
can make the machine boot, but this is just a workaround.  Any idea?

Thanks,

-- 
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmerino at ac.upc.edu>