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

[Julio M. Merino Vidal]

On Sep 24, 2007, at 4:23 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> 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)?

Yes, but that did not fix it.

Sorry for not mailing earlier, but I already found the solution: I  
had to move /etc/kboot.conf to /boot/etc/kboot.conf to make it work.   
Why is that?

Thanks,

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