[Cbe-oss-dev] Cannot use petitboot to boot from USB stick

[Geoff Levand]

On 07/02/2009 10:58 AM, John Frankish wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: 02 July, 2009 20:50
> To: John Frankish
> Cc: cbe-oss-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Cannot use petitboot to boot from USB stick
> 
> On 07/02/2009 01:31 AM, John Frankish wrote:
>> Using petitboot and pdaXrom-ng-ps3-20090417 (http://wiki.pdaxrom.org/downloads/PS3/livecd) copied to a usb stick:

It is difficult to look at this:

Connecting to wiki.pdaxrom.org|212.10.30.205|:80... failed: Connection refused.

>> Petitboot recognizes the usb stick, but when I try to boot, I get "no bootable rootfs found" and the boot process stops. According to http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=11551 this should work.
>>
>> Is this an issue of the usb stick changing device name during the boot process perhaps? If so, is there a way to identify the usb stick by label or uuid that petitboot and the kernel boot process would recognize?
> 
> I noticed that that thread at ps2dev.org uses a very old
> version of petitboot (from http://ozlabs.org/).  That
> version is not supported.  Please ask for someone to test
> with the latest petitboot from here:
> 
>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/
> 
>>> thanks - tested with the latest version of petitboot, but same result.

Do others have the same problem, or success?

You can run kexec directly from a Linux shell, thereby
eliminating the question of petitboot.

>>> I guess I need to find something known to boot from usb stick on a ps3 - any ideas?

I recommend you ask the pdaxrom maintainer for help.

-Geoff