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

Jonathan Adamczewski jadamcze at utas.edu.au
Tue Jun 2 22:14:30 EST 2009


Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Probably it panics because it cannot find a root file system.
> As ps3fb has to copy the screen contents from main memory to graphics memory
> on every vertical blank, it's quite possible the system comes to a halt in
> between the printing of the panic message and the copying to graphics memory,
> hence you never see the panic message.


I'm booting from a CF card.  I have all the necessary drivers
compiled into the kernel (I believe).  ROOT is set to the correct label.

What am I missing?

j.



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