Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 249217
Kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 fails to boot on PS3
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:11 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/419.2.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 Description of problem: When attempting to boot kernel 2.6.22.1-27.fc7 on my PS3 I receive the following output after selecting the kernel to boot at the kboot prompt: get memory range:1 Modified cmdline:root=LABEL=/ video=480p quiet acpi=force segment[0].mem:0x17ce000 memsz:8515584 segment[1].mem:0x1fed000 memsz:16384 segment[2].mem:0x1ff1000 memsz:3637248 segment[3].mem0x7bff000 memsz:4096 UUART: cleanup. SYSMGR: cleanup. (close event mask) 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 did and still does boot normally. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.22.1-27.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the kernel from yum 2. Reboot 3. Actual Results: New kernel failed to boot Expected Results: Should have booted properly Additional info:
I have the same issue as the original reporter. However, I don't have included the "acpi=force" option at boot. The newly released kernel (kernel-2.6.22.1-33.fc7) doesn't fix the issue.
2.6.22-1.37.fc7 or later (when released) should work on PS3 again. When the build finishes, you should be able to find it from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=79448 If you made the mistake of letting the installer use LVM even though it's pointless, watch out for bug #249672 (hopefully there'll be an updated lvm2 package for that shortly; you'll want that installed before you install the new kernel, or you'll want to run mkinitrd manually with the new lvm if you install this kernel first).
I just installed 2.6.22-1.37.fc7 and can confirm that it is booting properly on the PS3. Thanks!
When I attempt to run boot-game-os with 2.6.22-1.37.fc7 it spits out the usage list and 'ERROR: can't change boot flag' . I had to boot back to 2.6.21- 1.3228.fc7 in order to get it to run properly. [root@ps3 Desktop]# /sbin/boot-game-os Usage: other-os-flash-util [-b|-B] [-g|-r] flash_device [boot_loader_img] other-os-flash-util -s flash_device other-os-flash-util -d flash_device Options: -s show current settings -d print difference of clock time between game os and linux -b change boot flag : boot game os -B change boot flag : boot linux -g change boot loader format flag : compressed by gzip -r change boot loader format flag : not compressed ERROR: can't change boot flag
That is the least of all worries, until they implement reboot and shutdown properly you still have to keep pressing the power button (once linux has been halted) till the console shuts down itself. You might as well sit nearby and turn it on by pressing the power on button for 5+ seconds (keeping it pressed while it turns on) and that will boot the Game OS with the inconvenience of having to reset the screen resolution settings. Jason, do you use LVM ? (I stupidly let the installer use it... :()
Yes, the lack of reboot/kexec sucks hard. I was expecting that to be fixed 'any day now' at the time we added PS3 support to F-7, otherwise I'd probably have refused to support it as I did for FC6. The utilities mangling the otheros flash area are going to need updating, because that region now appears as a character device instead of a SCSI disk -- thanks for reminding me of that. I'll do it shortly. You can find an updated LVM package at http://david.woodhou.se/lvm2-2.02.24-1.fc7.ps3.ppc.rpm
I do not use LVM. If you hold the button down on the PS3 it also resets the video mode to 480i. Unfortunately I have an older television which supports 480i on one set of connectors (composite, s-video, and one component 'colorstream' set (which only does 480i), and 480p/1080i on a separate set of component/DVI connectors. Most people don't have to put up with this, but there are some with older televisions that do. When I got the PS3 I had to start it up on the colorstream inputs, tell it that I can use 480p/1080i, swap the connector over to the HD ports, change the tv input with the remote, and click OK to confirm it works, so that I can use it on HD ports. Holding the button down for 5 seconds and letting it reset the boot flag, and also the video, will mean I get to go through that whole mess each time. It's already bad enough I can't see any of kboot's output, or anything else, until the video=480p option kicks in. Glad to hear that the support is coming though, and it is appreciated. I'll definitely be installing F8 Test releases to try and help catch any of the problems before it gets released.
The newest kernel (kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7) solved the original issue. Didn't test "boot-game-os" though as I am working remotely on the PS3 (and the console isn't used for gaming!).
See this thread on fedoraforum regarding fixing the boot-game-os command and rebooting without using the power button: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=840325&postcount=13