Thanks Bill. You've pretty much confirmed what I thought. I'll play around with it this morning and post my results back....
Rob On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:03 PM, Bill Mueller wrote: > > > I haven't tried it recently, so no solid answers forthcoming. > But hopefully I can add some insight. > > Your RH/Fedora friends are correct, the trick with booting > from usb storage devices require the usb drives to be > re-scanned after nash starts up for the drive to mount > correctly. > > The easiest way to do it is by loading the kernel module, but > I believe you can also do it through the /proc tree. > > I had thought the ydl6 initrd already incorporated this, > given it is based on the same one used for the installer. > > In either case, if it is not working the fix is not exactly > straight forward. Mount the initrd and edit the startup > script to re-scan the usb devices or insert re-compiled > usb-core and usb-storage modules. > > I'm not sure I will be able to address this until the next > release. > > -Bill > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:59:06 -0400, Rob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Hey everybody, >> Has anyone played around with using an external USB drive on the >> PS3 with YDL6? I tried installing >> to one and that seemed to go well, but the drive will not boot the >> PS3. Kboot is correctly mounting the >> first partition of the external drive and sees the yaboot.conf file, >> but once nash starts up the boot freezes >> quickly. >> Based on some co-workers who boot RH/Fedora from USB drives, it >> looks like the initrd image is missing >> the usb-storage modules. One buddy said that for their RH/Fedora >> boxen they *had* to have the usb-storage >> stuff built as a module, *not* compiled into the kernel. I'm hoping >> that someone else has been down this >> path w/YDL before, and can confirm/deny this. >> Tomorrow morning I'm going to start playing with stuff. I'm >> figure I'm going to build a stock YDL6 kernel on >> my PS3's internal drive with usb-storage as a module, repackage with >> mkinitrd as per some RH/Fedora >> cheat sheets I've found, and push that to the external drive.... >> >> >> Rob >> >> _______________________________________________ >> yellowdog-general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog- >> general >> HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> >> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> > site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
