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

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 09:05:44AM +0300, Wartan Hachaturow wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 06:38:20PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > The correct installer is chosen based on a set of rules for the
                 ^^^^
Obviously I meant to say 'kernel' here :-)

> > subsystem. I'm assuming that there's no rule for PS3 here. Similar
> > things are true for the partitioner.
> 
> Nope, there isn't.

Right.

> > Hrm. Does the PS3 boot with yaboot? If so, you should have been able to
> > select yaboot, and have it be installed to the system. That should also
> > have created your yaboot.conf.
> 
> PS3 is booted with kboot, which is able to interpret yaboot.conf. Thus, the
> correct behaviour on that platform would be to create yaboot.conf, but
> without bootloader installation itself :)

I see.

> (as Debian does not have kboot, and I presume hardly ever will).

Why not? Non-free? Not distributable?

> I'll continue working on this stuff, this was just a test image to make sure
> kernel modules were loaded fine.

OK.

If you have patches, I can help you get them into d-i proper.

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