Installing Ubuntu on a PS3
Tagged with: linux • PS3 • Technical • Ubuntu
Like Fellow Blogger Les, Ubuntu is Giving me Hell…
As previously reported I am attempting to install Ubuntu to Linux. Naturally I am running into some issues. The instructions I am following are pretty straight forward and found here. So I followed everything to a “T” and when I get to the point to actually install Ubuntu (when you hit “Enter” at the “kboot” prompt) kboot loads the USB drivers, I get some error messages, all the USB devices shut down, and the system freezes. Not good.
Advice said to enter: “boot-game-os” to go back to the PS3 interface or partition. This did not work. Through some hunting I found I had to enter “ps3-boot-game-os”.
After much searching and troubleshooting I found this forum post. The guy made a comment informing the person with the problem to update kboot. I did this and still a no go. Same problem.
Next I tried petitboot instead of kboot. I found this via this link… This still is not working.
If I had to guess I would say the bootloader is not changing each time I attempt to change it. So I am going to try updating it again from my flash drive and see what happens.
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September 26th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Isn’t a PS3 a video game machine?
If you want a nice case, I’ve got one you can have, and put in a mobo kit from NewEgg or something. Then you wouldn’t be fighting the PS3 DRM or whatever they call it.
September 26th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
It is a video game machine, but also (essentially) a subsidized power house computer. Which is better than what I can afford right now from Newegg. Plus I don’t have a Linux machine at the moment so this is a way to circumvent that issue.
And because most importantly (I’m surprised you forgot this) I am a huge tech geek!