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

Sat Oct 17 15:25:06 AEDT 2015

Unfortunately, the latest stable (4.2.3) kernel tarball didn't work either.
Same symptoms as before: beeping and flashing red light.

Any suggestions as to what my next move should be?

Thanks,
dec

On 16 October 2015 at 15:26, Declan Malone <declan.malone at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > cbe-oss-dev mailing list
>> > cbe-oss-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/cbe-oss-dev
>> > 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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