[Cbe-oss-dev] Fwd: PS3 kernel does not load

[Declan Malone]

Hi Geoff, and thank you.

I started the process of downgrading to firmware 3.15 so that I could
reinstall, but I ran into problems.

First, I discovered that the CFW I had installed was your
CFW355-OTHEROS++-22GB.PUP that had no SS patches. I installed your
CFW355-OTHEROS++-SPECIAL.PUP so that I could install and run the QA package
(otherwise there were no beeps to indicate success) to allow a firmware
downgrade.

The QA "extra" package seemed to work as the PS3 restarted and allowed me
to use the controller key chord to activate the QA menu options and when I
inserted a USB disk with the official 3.15 firmware it let me start the
install.

The install failed at 59% with the error message "the data type is not
supported (80029C9)." The hash checks out (sha1:
fc4e891e84333f9b37ff7f253eca165aa416c6ad) and I downloaded from two sources
to make sure it was legit.

I thought that maybe the problem was that I had to run the restore_vflash
script, but that failed too, telling me (in petitboot)  "ps3stormgr: no
such device or address". I believe now that I didn't need to run that
script at all.

Other info:

* root=/dev/ps3dd2 seems correct, since all the other kernels I have use
this (and I would have expected an actual error message if it was wrong)
* I had problems porting the spufs fixes since there was more than one
patch involved and I had troubles identifying which ones they were
* I don't recall ever explicitly doing anything to lv1 so it's probably
some incompatibility with the BootOS/OtherOS++ stuff

Since I still have a working system, I'll try to follow up by installing
the mainline kernel from kernel.org. I'm not sure about getting support
from the OtherOS++ guys, assuming I can find them and they're still working
on the PS3... hopefully the mainline kernel will work so I don't have to do
anything special

It would still be nice if I could get past the 80029c2 error message on
downgrading from your "special" 3.55 firmware so that I could retain the
option to install something less than 3.21 and revert to using the original
OtherOS feature so as to avoid all the various hacks and incantations that
OtherOS++ seems to require. Have you ever come across this error before?

Thanks for your help. I hope that installing the mainline kernel will work,
but I'd still like to be able to revert the firmware, if you have any
ideas..

Regards,
dec


On 15 October 2015 at 22:31, Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 18:08 +0100, Declan Malone wrote:
> > I hope that this is the right place to ask this.
>
> This is the place for PS3 help with firmware 3.20 and earlier.
>
> > I downloaded what I think is the official kernel from
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
>
> For firmware 3.20 and earlier, the latest is there.  The upstream
> stable kernel will also work.
>
> > After compiling and installing it and putting it into my kboot.conf
> > with the line
> >
> >     linux-4.2.0="/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f root=/dev/ps3dd2
>
> Maybe 'root=ps3da2'?  Not sure about otheros++ devices.
>
> > I did a shutdown -r to get into petitboot, but after selecting the
> > kernel and getting the usual "system is going down now" message
> > before the kexec, the PS3's power light just flashes red and there
> > are three quick beeps.
>
> Three beeps means there was some kind of invalid memory access or
> a bad LV1 call.
>
> > My system is at firmware version 3.55 and I'm using pslight to launch
> > the (iirc) otheros++ install.
>
> Sorry, my stuff on kernel.org is for firmware 3.20 and earlier.
> You'll need to get a kernel, or kernel patches from the otheros++ guys.
>
> > I'd like to get the latest official kernel since it seems to fix a
> > long-standing problem I had with spufs not being populated.
>
> You should be able to forward port any otheros++ kernel patches to the
> latest kernel.
>
> -Geoff
>
>
>
> > I downloaded what I think is the official kernel from
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
> >
> > At the time of downloading, the last commit is
> 19ff78fe6470bb44771c20c9b7546a2c7a631752 and I'm on branch "master".
> >
> > After compiling and installing it and putting it into my kboot.conf with
> the line
> >
> >     linux-4.2.0="/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f root=/dev/ps3dd2
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f"
> >
> > I did a shutdown -r to get into petitboot, but after selecting the
> kernel and getting the usual "system is going down now" message before the
> kexec, the PS3's power light just flashes red and there are three quick
> beeps.
> >
> > My system is at firmware version 3.55 and I'm using pslight to launch
> the (iirc) otheros++ install. I'm running a fully-updated Debian wheezy OS
> >
> > My kernel build should have been standard:
> >
> > make ps3_defconfig
> > make oldconfig
> > make
> > make install (failed with messages about not finding modules)
> > make modules_install
> > make install (previous error messages went away)
> >
> > After failing to reboot, I also did another make modules_install, but it
> didn't help.
> >
> > I'd like to get the latest official kernel since it seems to fix a
> long-standing problem I had with spufs not being populated (I'd tried
> applying the patches to other kernels I had but that didn't work). The
> above seems to be the right way to go about things, but perhaps the git
> repo or branch I'm using doesn't work?
> >
> > Failing getting this kernel to work, is there some up-to-date
> documentation for the preferred setup for re-installing Linux on my box? I
> think I can revert the firmware if needed. I'd like it if my setup was as
> close as possible to what you kernel development guys have. Before I nuke
> everything and start again, though, I'd just like to know what setup will
> give me the best compatibility/kernel support.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > dec
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> > On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 18:08 +0100, Declan Malone wrote:
> > > I hope that this is the right place to ask this.
> >
> > This is the place for PS3 help with firmware 3.20 and earlier.
> >
> > > I downloaded what I think is the official kernel from
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
> >
> > For firmware 3.20 and earlier, the latest is there.  The upstream
> > stable kernel will also work.
> >
> > > After compiling and installing it and putting it into my kboot.conf
> > > with the line
> > >
> > >     linux-4.2.0="/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f root=/dev/ps3dd2
> >
> > Maybe 'root=ps3da2'?  Not sure about otheros++ devices.
> >
> > > I did a shutdown -r to get into petitboot, but after selecting the
> > > kernel and getting the usual "system is going down now" message
> > > before the kexec, the PS3's power light just flashes red and there
> > > are three quick beeps.
> >
> > Three beeps means there was some kind of invalid memory access or a bad
> LV1
> > call.
> >
> > > My system is at firmware version 3.55 and I'm using pslight to launch
> > > the (iirc) otheros++ install.
> >
> > Sorry, my stuff on kernel.org is for firmware 3.20 and earlier.  You'll
> need to
> > get a kernel, or kernel patches from the otheros++ guys.
> >
> > > I'd like to get the latest official kernel since it seems to fix a
> > > long-standing problem I had with spufs not being populated.
> >
> > You should be able to forward port any otheros++ kernel patches to the
> latest
> > kernel.
> >
> > -Geoff
> > > I hope that this is the right place to ask this.
> >
> > This is the place for PS3 help with firmware 3.20 and earlier.
> >
> > > I downloaded what I think is the official kernel from
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
> >
> > For firmware 3.20 and earlier, the latest is there.  The upstream
> > stable kernel will also work.
> >
> > > After compiling and installing it and putting it into my kboot.conf
> > > with the line
> > >
> > >     linux-4.2.0="/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f root=/dev/ps3dd2
> >
> > Maybe 'root=ps3da2'?  Not sure about otheros++ devices.
> >
> > > I did a shutdown -r to get into petitboot, but after selecting the
> > > kernel and getting the usual "system is going down now" message
> > > before the kexec, the PS3's power light just flashes red and there
> > > are three quick beeps.
> >
> > Three beeps means there was some kind of invalid memory access or a bad
> LV1
> > call.
> >
> > > My system is at firmware version 3.55 and I'm using pslight to launch
> > > the (iirc) otheros++ install.
> >
> > Sorry, my stuff on kernel.org is for firmware 3.20 and earlier.  You'll
> need to
> > get a kernel, or kernel patches from the otheros++ guys.
> >
> > > I'd like to get the latest official kernel since it seems to fix a
> > > long-standing problem I had with spufs not being populated.
> >
> > You should be able to forward port any otheros++ kernel patches to the
> latest
> > kernel.
> >
> > -Geoff> I hope that this is the right place to ask this.
> >
> > This is the place for PS3 help with firmware 3.20 and earlier.
> >
> > > I downloaded what I think is the official kernel from
> > >
> > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git
> >
> > For firmware 3.20 and earlier, the latest is there.  The upstream
> > stable kernel will also work.
> >
> > > After compiling and installing it and putting it into my kboot.conf
> > > with the line
> > >
> > >     linux-4.2.0="/boot/vmlinux-4.2.0-01270-g19ff78f root=/dev/ps3dd2
> >
> > Maybe 'root=ps3da2'?  Not sure about otheros++ devices.
> >
> > > I did a shutdown -r to get into petitboot, but after selecting the
> > > kernel and getting the usual "system is going down now" message
> > > before the kexec, the PS3's power light just flashes red and there
> > > are three quick beeps.
> >
> > Three beeps means there was some kind of invalid memory access or a bad
> LV1
> > call.
> >
> > > My system is at firmware version 3.55 and I'm using pslight to launch
> > > the (iirc) otheros++ install.
> >
> > Sorry, my stuff on kernel.org is for firmware 3.20 and earlier.  You'll
> need to
> > get a kernel, or kernel patches from the otheros++ guys.
> >
> > > I'd like to get the latest official kernel since it seems to fix a
> > > long-standing problem I had with spufs not being populated.
> >
> > You should be able to forward port any otheros++ kernel patches to the
> latest
> > kernel.
> >
> > -Geoff
>
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