[ydl-gen] Booting a PS3 w/YDL6 from an external USB drive

[Rob Sanders]

Thanks Bill.  You've pretty much confirmed what I thought.  I'll play  
around with it this morning
and post my results back....

Rob

On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Bill Mueller wrote:

>
>
> I haven't tried it recently, so no solid answers forthcoming.
> But hopefully I can add some insight.
>
> Your RH/Fedora friends are correct, the trick with booting
> from usb storage devices require the usb drives to be
> re-scanned after nash starts up for the drive to mount
> correctly.
>
> The easiest way to do it is by loading the kernel module, but
> I believe you can also do it through the /proc tree.
>
> I had thought the ydl6 initrd already incorporated this,
> given it is based on the same one used for the installer.
>
> In either case, if it is not working the fix is not exactly
> straight forward.  Mount the initrd and edit the startup
> script to re-scan the usb devices or insert re-compiled
> usb-core and usb-storage modules.
>
> I'm not sure I will be able to address this until the next
> release.
>
> -Bill
>
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:59:06 -0400, Rob Sanders <rarob at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>> Hey everybody,
>>    Has anyone played around with using an external USB drive on the
>> PS3 with YDL6?  I tried installing
>> to one and that seemed to go well, but the drive will not boot the
>> PS3.  Kboot is correctly mounting the
>> first partition of the external drive and sees the yaboot.conf file,
>> but once nash starts up the boot freezes
>> quickly.
>>    Based on some co-workers who boot RH/Fedora from USB drives, it
>> looks like the initrd image is missing
>> the usb-storage modules.  One buddy said that for their RH/Fedora
>> boxen they *had* to have the usb-storage
>> stuff built as a module, *not* compiled into the kernel.  I'm hoping
>> that someone else has been down this
>> path w/YDL before, and can confirm/deny this.
>>    Tomorrow morning I'm going to start playing with stuff.  I'm
>> figure I'm going to build a stock YDL6 kernel on
>> my PS3's internal drive with usb-storage as a module, repackage with
>> mkinitrd as per some RH/Fedora
>> cheat sheets I've found, and push that to the external drive....
>>
>>
>> Rob
>>
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