latest F8 kernel fails to boot on ps3

[Patrick Mansfield]

Hi -

I can't boot my ps3 with the current F8 kernel. Any ideas?

I'm using geoff's recent kboot / otheros.bld, this one:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071...

I have the latest ps3 firmware, must be 2.10.

The *previous* F8 kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 boots fine.

The latest F8 kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 fails.

I also tried 2.6.23.12-99.fc, via rpm at:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.23.12/99.fc8/ppc64/kernel-...

The system gets to the kboot prompt, I select a kernel, it starts to boot,
prints out a few lines, and then the last message I can see before it
blanks the screen out is "ps3_ehci_driver ...".

I'm using a 22" Samsung monitor, it lies about its supported resolution
(says it can do 1080i but it really can't), so I'm using yaboot.conf with
video override, I also got rid of the boot by label per other bug, I have
this:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-99.fc8
    label=2.6.23.12-99.fc
    read-only
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.23.12-99.fc8.img
    append="video=720p root=/dev/ps3da1 selinux=0"

-- Patrick Mansfield

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:53:26PM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> The *previous* F8 kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 boots fine.
>
> The latest F8 kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 fails.

Also, 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 boots fine on a IBM QS20 (CELL blade).

-- Patrick Mansfield

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:02:39 -0800
Patrick Mansfield  wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:53:26PM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> > The *previous* F8 kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 boots fine.
> >
> > The latest F8 kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 fails.
>
> Also, 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 boots fine on a IBM QS20 (CELL blade).

This works fine on my PS3, though I have the 2.01 firmware on there
still:

[jwboyer@ps3 ~]$ uname -a
Linux ps3 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1 SMP Fri Dec 7 15:05:43 EST 2007 ppc64 ppc64 ppc64 GNU/Linux

I'll have to see if the updated kernel has the bug with the 2.10
firmware, but I doubt it.

josh

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:53:26PM -0800, Patrick Mansfield wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I can't boot my ps3 with the current F8 kernel. Any ideas?
> The *previous* F8 kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 boots fine.
>
> The latest F8 kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 fails.

I had mucked with ldconfig, saving it elsewhere and then running the real
one after a yum update, as it was very slow (at least in the past), taking
about 40 seconds for *each* run and its gets run for just about any
package that is installed.

So I put ldconfig back, re-made my initrd, and now 2.6.23.9-85.fc8 is
booting fine!

Thanks to David and Andrew for the help (on irc).

-- Patrick Mansfield

[Roland McGrath]

> I had mucked with ldconfig, saving it elsewhere and then running the real
> one after a yum update, as it was very slow (at least in the past), taking
> about 40 seconds for *each* run and its gets run for just about any
> package that is installed.

As of F8 this should be much better than it used to be (ldconfig has some
caching now).