[Cbe-oss-dev] Can't boot PS3 without using initrd

[Jonathan Adamczewski]

Gerhard Stenzel wrote:
>> Jonathan Adamczewski <jadamcze at utas.edu.au>
>> I've been trying to set up an initrd-free boot for my PS3 without
>> success.  I've built everything I can identify as being necessary
>> into the kernel, turned off initrd support, and get a kernel that
>> loads, flashes some penguins and text to the screen for the briefest
>> of moments and then the screen goes black and the system freezes -
>> no lights indicating activity, press the power button until the
>> second beep to shutdown.
>>
>> I have tried kernel 2.6.29 and 2.6.30-rc7 with the same result.
>>
>> Booting a working (with initrd) kernel without the initrd=foo part
>> of the command line results in the same black screen and no response.
>>
>> I'm currently running 2.6.30-rc7 with initrd support without problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> The first thing I would check is that you have some devices on your root
> file system. Most devices are created during boot, but I think /dev/null
> and /dev/console need to exist.


Thanks for the suggestion, but those files do exist.

jonathan.