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

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> 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?

Is the `bootable' flag set for the partition (using fdisk)?

With kind regards,
 
Geert Uytterhoeven
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