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

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 17:12 +1000, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> 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.

How did you check? You're sure they're on your root filesystem, not
on /dev and setup by udev.

cheers
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