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''' Source: graf_chokolo @ http://ps3wiki.lan.st/index.php/Petitboot '''
''' Source: graf_chokolo @ http://ps3wiki.lan.st/index.php/Booting_Linux_2.6_kernel_on_running_PS3_Linux_with_kexec '''
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= Compiling petitboot =
= Compiling kexec for PS3 Linux =


* I use petitboot to install and boot Linux from internal HDD of my PS3.
* To compile the latest kexec-tools on '''Debian Squeeze''', you have to install '''autoconf''' and '''libc6-dev-ppc64''' packages
* With petitboot, you will be able to install/boot a Linux kernel from USB, HDD, BD or network.
* Compiling petitboot takes a very long time
* On my Arch Linux x86 it doesn't build without patches
* I created a new openwrt git repository which contains my patches and PS3 NOR and VFLASH block device drivers


<pre>
<pre>
$ git clone git://dukio.com/openwrt
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
$ git clone git://nbd.name/packages.git openwrt_packages
$ cd kexec-tools
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make
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$ cd openwrt/package
= Booting Linux 2.6 kernel with kexec on running PS3 Linux =
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/libs/jpeg jpeg
 
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/libs/libpng libpng
* kexec-tools is very useful if you want to test a new Linux 2.6 kernel on PS3 without a long boot procedure with petitboot
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/libs/libtwin libtwin
 
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/ps3-utils ps3-utils
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$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/petitboot petitboot
# ./build/sbin/kexec -l /boot/vmlinux-2.6.38-rc4-00155-gb0fd285 --append="root=/dev/ps3dd1 video=720p"
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/bzip2 bzip2
# swapoff -a
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/sed sed
# sync
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/tar tar
# ./build/sbin/kexec -e
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/less less
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$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/net/dhcpcd dhcpcd
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/net/wget wget
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/net/wget wget
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/coreutils coreutils
$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/coreutils coreutils

Revision as of 01:44, 25 February 2011

Source: graf_chokolo @ http://ps3wiki.lan.st/index.php/Booting_Linux_2.6_kernel_on_running_PS3_Linux_with_kexec

Compiling kexec for PS3 Linux

  • To compile the latest kexec-tools on Debian Squeeze, you have to install autoconf and libc6-dev-ppc64 packages
$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
$ cd kexec-tools
$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make

Booting Linux 2.6 kernel with kexec on running PS3 Linux

  • kexec-tools is very useful if you want to test a new Linux 2.6 kernel on PS3 without a long boot procedure with petitboot
# ./build/sbin/kexec -l /boot/vmlinux-2.6.38-rc4-00155-gb0fd285 --append="root=/dev/ps3dd1 video=720p"
# swapoff -a
# sync
# ./build/sbin/kexec -e

$ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/net/wget wget $ ln -s ../../openwrt_packages/utils/coreutils coreutils

$ cd .. $ make menuconfig $ make kernel_menuconfig $ make V=99

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