Dual Boot on a PS3

John Frankish frankish at dubai.oilfield.slb.com
Tue Nov 18 16:24:43 EST 2008


At 18:11 16-11-08, you wrote:
>On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:54:47AM +0400, John Frankish wrote:
>
> > I've compiled a cross linux-from-scratch build under /clfs on ps3da2 and
> > would like to modify yaboot.conf to be able to have the option to boot
> > from /clfs - note that clfs uses /clfs/sbin/pre-init to take care of the
> > fact that the build is not under the root ("/") directory.
>
> > image=/clfs/boot/clfskernel-2.6.27.4
> >          label=clfs
> >          read-only
> >          append"/clfs/sbin/pre-init"
> >          append="video=ps3fb:mode:13 rhgb quiet root=/dev/ps3da2/clfs"
>
>Even if it were possible you're doing it wrong.
>
>It should be something like:
>
>         append="video=ps3fb:mode:13 rhgb quiet 
> root=/dev/ps3da2/clfs init=/clfs/sbin/pre-init"
>
>-----------------
Thanks for the suggestion.

I tried several variations on the theme, but no luck.

John 




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