I had my PS3 at least attempting to boot from USB stick the other day, but the newest firmware 2.10, which I installed last night, goes as far as turning off the lit (active) USB drive just as it boots, and the otheros.bld file you have us install sits there, and doesn\'t even bring kboot up at all.

Thanks, Sony... for nothing.

Same over here: installed 2.10...and PS3GRID won\'t start. Seems like I have to do the complete installation of Linux...

Same over here: installed 2.10...and PS3GRID won\'t start. Seems like I have to do the complete installation of Linux...

I had my PS3 at least attempting to boot from USB stick the other day, but the newest firmware 2.10, which I installed last night, goes as far as turning off the lit (active) USB drive just as it boots, and the otheros.bld file you have us install sits there, and doesn\'t even bring kboot up at all.

Thanks, Sony... for nothing.

We have had some problems with 2.01, but it did boot. Do you have 2.1 or 2.01?


g

I had my PS3 at least attempting to boot from USB stick the other day, but the newest firmware 2.10, which I installed last night, goes as far as turning off the lit (active) USB drive just as it boots, and the otheros.bld file you have us install sits there, and doesn\'t even bring kboot up at all.

Thanks, Sony... for nothing.

We have had some problems with 2.01, but it did boot. Do you have 2.1 or 2.01?


g

I just loaded 2.10 last night. I had problems with 2.01 as well (my GRID debut was a couple days ago). It saw the stick, but the only tab selections were \"Linux\" and \"old\", which were from the first partition of my HD, but even they would not load from your boot loader. After loading the graphical boot loader I used to use, at least I got my HD install functions back.

I\'ll have to hunt up the GRID files for that to run from within one of the installed distros I have in place. I was so wanting to have a USB bootable system, because that opens up a LOT of live distro experimentation. Maybe we can convince them to put things back the way they were. It is almost as if they are toying with their entire customer base, like it is some game. I find it more than a bit annoying.

It would be good if some of those that have experiemnced this problem, to bring it to the attention of Sony Playstation developers.

See this blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/17/firmware-update-v210/

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It would be good if some of those that have experiemnced this problem, to bring it to the attention of Sony Playstation developers.

See this blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/17/firmware-update-v210/

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Has anyone with this problem tried to re-install the other-os as in step 4 on the directions. It seems like to me that when upgrading the firmware to 2.10 it is clearing the other-os configuration in some way.
When Shaggy installed a different other-os it went abck to working, I think a re-install of the correct other-os might have the same effect, but I make no guaranetees, just a thought.

Has anyone with this problem tried to re-install the other-os as in step 4 on the directions. It seems like to me that when upgrading the firmware to 2.10 it is clearing the other-os configuration in some way.
When Shaggy installed a different other-os it went abck to working, I think a re-install of the correct other-os might have the same effect, but I make no guaranetees, just a thought.

Has anyone with this problem tried to re-install the other-os as in step 4 on the directions. It seems like to me that when upgrading the firmware to 2.10 it is clearing the other-os configuration in some way.
When Shaggy installed a different other-os it went abck to working, I think a re-install of the correct other-os might have the same effect, but I make no guaranetees, just a thought.

Yes I\'ve reinstalled Linux as per the instructions and no joy.

It would be good if some of those that have experiemnced this problem, to bring it to the attention of Sony Playstation developers.

See this blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/17/firmware-update-v210/

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I had the same problem but found another otheros.bld on the web and installed that. Linux is running off the usb stick but i\'m not sure if its using the 6 spe\'s as well as the 2 ppe\'s.

I\'ll try to post a link to it later and let you decide


Shaggy

Has anyone with this problem tried to re-install the other-os as in step 4 on the directions. It seems like to me that when upgrading the firmware to 2.10 it is clearing the other-os configuration in some way.
When Shaggy installed a different other-os it went abck to working, I think a re-install of the correct other-os might have the same effect, but I make no guaranetees, just a thought.

It would be good if some of those that have experiemnced this problem, to bring it to the attention of Sony Playstation developers.

See this blog at http://blog.us.playstation.com/2007/12/17/firmware-update-v210/

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I had the same problem but found another otheros.bld on the web and installed that. Linux is running off the usb stick but i\'m not sure if its using the 6 spe\'s as well as the 2 ppe\'s.

I\'ll try to post a link to it later and let you decide


Shaggy

Cute. You\'ll TRY to post a link to it?

otheros.bld should affect performance. If it boots then it should be fine. We will be unable to do serious testing until after holidays unfortunately.

g

However, I would think that if there is a problem, it is fixable easily.

Can anyone reports problems booting with 2.10? Were they fixed by reinstalling a new boot loader or the same as suggested in this thread?
gdf

Coud you try to use this one here?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071220-ADDON/PS3/otheros/

Apparently, in 2.10 there was a change in the framebuffer so the display does not work with previous otheros.bld.

If it works we will update the pen drive.

Thanks

Coud you try to use this one here?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071220-ADDON/PS3/otheros/

Apparently, in 2.10 there was a change in the framebuffer so the display does not work with previous otheros.bld.

If it works we will update the pen drive.

Thanks

Success!!!

Thanks for sorting this out and Merry Christmas!

Coud you try to use this one here?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071220-ADDON/PS3/otheros/

Apparently, in 2.10 there was a change in the framebuffer so the display does not work with previous otheros.bld.

If it works we will update the pen drive.

Thanks

Success!!!

Thanks for sorting this out and Merry Christmas!

Please give some more info?
Which firmware are you using? Did it work before?
What happens?

Thanks, gdf

Coud you try to use this one here?
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/CELL-Linux-CL_20071220-ADDON/PS3/otheros/

Apparently, in 2.10 there was a change in the framebuffer so the display does not work with previous otheros.bld.

If it works we will update the pen drive.

Thanks

Success!!!

Thanks for sorting this out and Merry Christmas!

It used to work with one Linux installed (at least YDL and Fedora) for us. Maybe you have different Linux distributions and the bootloader must become confused.

This pen drive is done for people who would not install Linux otherwise. It\'s quick and easy, but if you have Linux installed you have a much more powerful and flexible system.

Did you guys know that your kboot.conf file has a \"con\" extension instead of \"conf\"? What\'s up with that?

My PS3 seems to be bricked now...

I had the old bootload running. Didnt know anything about the new one. Took the PS3 to a friends house to play some games. Booted back to the normal PS3 OS.

When i got home and tried to go back to Linux, it just boots to a black screen. My TV reports no HDMI input signal. I just get a green light.

Any ideas?

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After browsing the Playstation forums and other sites, i found the solution!

If you EVER seem to brick it, you can do a hard reset! This will NOT format the drive or loose any data except config settings.

1. Turn the PS3 off using the switch in the back.
2. Turn the PS3 back on using the switch in the back (so the light is red).
3. Hold the power button for about 10-15 seconds until you hear 3 beeps about 3-5 seconds apart.

The system will now automaticly reboot it self. If will look like you just bought it. Asking all the questions about video options, etc. Once you boot back up, you will be back at the XMB with the Theme or anyhting you had before.

My PS3 seems to be bricked now...

I had the old bootload running. Didnt know anything about the new one. Took the PS3 to a friends house to play some games. Booted back to the normal PS3 OS.

When i got home and tried to go back to Linux, it just boots to a black screen. My TV reports no HDMI input signal. I just get a green light.

Any ideas?

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After browsing the Playstation forums and other sites, i found the solution!

If you EVER seem to brick it, you can do a hard reset! This will NOT format the drive or loose any data except config settings.

1. Turn the PS3 off using the switch in the back.
2. Turn the PS3 back on using the switch in the back (so the light is red).
3. Hold the power button for about 10-15 seconds until you hear 3 beeps about 3-5 seconds apart.

The system will now automaticly reboot it self. If will look like you just bought it. Asking all the questions about video options, etc. Once you boot back up, you will be back at the XMB with the Theme or anyhting you had before.

Did you guys know that your kboot.conf file has a \"con\" extension instead of \"conf\"? What\'s up with that?

I upgraded my firmware from 1.92 to 2.10 and realized i couldn\'t boot. Followed the fix sugested here and it worked.
But on the boinc benchmarks it only recognised 1 CPU instead of 2. I have a wu 82.941% completed and the estimated time to completion is increasing. I will let it run by the night, if the performance is afected drastically i will suspend the partipation on this project until there is a fix.

Don\'t interpert this post as a complaint or pressure!

But on the boinc benchmarks it only recognized 1 CPU instead of 2.

But on my account shows 2 CPU instead of one and i am only running ps3grid. Before this change i was running one wu at a time. The info about previous benchmark was misleading and it would have showed 1 instead of 2? and now 1 is the correct value?

But on my account shows 2 CPU instead of one and i am only running ps3grid. Before this change i was running one wu at a time. The info about previous benchmark was misleading and it would have showed 1 instead of 2? and now 1 is the correct value?

Thanks for the explanation!
Happy new year for you!

it is important that you reinstall the otheros.bld from the gameos. Have you done it?