Webs’ Random Ideas

I just need to do quite a bit more work to get everything up and running. I figured out screen resolution, which took some tinkering… I also restored my PS3 settings. This means I am back to how I was before yesterday, except I also have Ubuntu installed.

I will write more once everything works I am flying high!

I figured out what I was doing wrong. When I was trying to install the bootloader I had the Ubuntu CD in the disc drive. So the boot loader by default was installing off the CD everytime. I started to suspect this as every piece of documentation made it seem like updating the bootloader is incredibly easy and I noticed the PS3 told me the install location was “disc” everytime.

So I finally got petitboot loaded. And now I can’t install Ubuntu. Note… get kboot installed first, then upgrade to petitboot.

Let’s see what happens this time!

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.

So far I haven’t gotten very far. I had to re-install my main computer because I got viruses and crap. Then I had to move files from my USB hard drive to my main computer to reformat it. PS3’s can’t recognize NTFS so I need to reformat the USB HD with a FAT32 volume. Once I get Ubuntu installed I can do this type of work a lot faster on the PS3…

Anyways, so the next step is to backup my PS3 onto the USB HD and then create the partitions, the install Ubuntu, restore the backup, and see how nicely Ubuntu plays…

I will update when I have something juicy

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