[Cbe-oss-dev] Bug#514055: debian still not working on PS3

[Geoff Levand]

On 12/02/2009 03:25 PM, Levand, Geoffrey wrote:
> On 05/28/2009 09:39 AM, Levand, Geoffrey wrote:
>> On 05/01/2009 03:18 PM, Geoff Levand wrote:
>>> I tried today's build (20090430) and the 'CD-ROM driver not found'
>>> problem is fixed:
>>> 
>>>   http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc/20090430-22:00/powerpc64/netboot/
>>> 
>>> I was able to finish the install, but still got the
>>> same other known problems:
>>> 
>>> (1) At kernel install:
>>> 
>>>   'No installable kernel was found in the defined APT sources'
>>>   'base-installer: info: could not determine kernel flavor'
>>> 
>>> (2) At boot loader install:
>>> 
>>>   'No boot loader has been installed'
>>>   'GRUB not yet usable on PowerPC systems'
>>> 
>>> It should create a /etc/yaboot.conf on the same partition that the
>>> kernel was installed to, but nothing else is needed.  The petitboot
>>> bootloader can read from vfat, ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems.
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Could someone familiar with D-I internals give a brief summary of what
>> needs to be done to fix these two problems. Thanks.
> 
> I tried the sid installer build today:
> 
>   http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/sid_d-i/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/
> 
> but there were no ps3 drivers in the image.
> 
> What needs to be done to get those drivers included?

After some searching, I found this commit that seems it should add the drivers:

http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/d-i/trunk/packages/kernel/linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6/modules/powerpc-powerpc64/scsi-extra-modules?r1=48552&r2=57888

That change doesn't seem to be in the daily build I tested though.  Can anyone explain?

-Goeff