Bug 325111

Summary: Fedora 8 Installer has no detected PS3 HD
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Akenateb <hakenateb>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8   
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Hardware: powerpc   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=168580
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List of files in /sys/bus/ps3_system_bus none

Description Akenateb 2007-10-09 16:14:19 UTC 
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Description of problem:
None of Fedora 8 Tests has detected PS3´s Hard drive, although since Fedora Core 5 we are working with it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Fedora 8 test 1/2/3
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3.

Actual Results:
Its not possible install Fedora 8 on PS3

Expected Results:
Fedora 8 test 3 running on PS3

Additional info:
Comment 1 David Woodhouse 2007-10-11 14:12:37 UTC 
Do you have a directory /sys/bus/ps3_system_bus/ ? Or is it called
/sys/bus/ps3_system? 

If the kernel changed the name of the directory in sysfs (as I think it might
have done), then perhaps kudzu's ps3.c needs to be changed to cope.

Completely untested, and nobody's even confirmed what's currently in sysfs (I'm
a few thousand miles from my PS3s):
http://david.woodhou.se/kudzu-1.2.77-ps3-detect.patch
Comment 2 Bill Blake 2007-10-11 22:15:35 UTC 
Created attachment 224851 [details]
List of files in /sys/bus/ps3_system_bus
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2007-10-12 21:09:09 UTC 
This should be fixed in the next build of anaconda.
Comment 4 Akenateb 2007-10-24 07:58:08 UTC 
Tested with new anaconda:

anaconda-11.3.0.42-1.ppc.rpm 

anaconda-runtime-11.3.0.42-1.ppc.rpm 

Nothing again.
Comment 5 cabe 2007-11-02 14:02:27 UTC 
I patched 
anaconda-runtime-11.3.0.50-1.ppc64.rpm  &
anaconda-11.3.0.50-1.ppc64.rpm into a 
Fedora-7.92-ppc-DVD.iso by renaming them 
anaconda-runtime-11.3.0.36-1.ppc.rpm and 
anaconda-11.3.0.36-1.ppc.rpm and placing them in the /Packages dir on the iso
when I ran the disk with kexec -f --initrd.image.gz --command-line="text" vmlinuz
(to get a text mode install so the buttons aren't off my sdtv screen)
It said it was starting anaconda 11.3.0.36 (filename? I deleted the package on
the disk, yet it started.) 

when anaconda started it failed to detect the hard disk

Kboot seems to mount the disk (although nothing on it). can I send a command
line option to vmlinuz to make it go to kboot's /dev/ps3hd?

Any help would be appreciated


-cabe