The PS3 has an unpartitioned SCSI 'disk', usually /dev/sdb, which contains the bootloader and information shared with Game OS. The installer currently reports that it does not contain a valid partition table and offers to initialise it. It would be good to automatically skip it. The device in question appears as 'Direct-Access-RBC' in /proc/scsi/scsi -- the type in /sys/block/sdb/device/type is '14'. That's how the Sony tools check for it when they want to access it. Vendor and Model reported in /proc/scsi/scsi are 'SCEI' and 'Flash-5' resp., if those are a better way to identify it. They appear in /sys/block/$dev/device/{vendor,model}
Created attachment 152651 [details] patch Here's a hack which works. Someone who actually understands python could surely do a lot better.
Oops, I meant to drop the EARLY_SWAP_RAM hunk, but it's not as if you were going to use the patch as-is anyway, so I'll not file an updated patch.
Blacklist as we do with iSeries is better fix, commited. >>> peddev = parted.PedDevice.get("/dev/sdb") >>> peddev.model 'SCEI Flash-5'