Odd PS2 Tool DVD Booting

So Ive been trying off and on for the past two days to get the DVD drive to boot. I have what should be a master formatted disc (and retail discs, although Ive heard that can be hit or miss).

I am using Windows to interface to it, through ProDG. Ive abandoned the GUI and stuck to PS2Run.

The command to issue the reset is this: ps2run-r <ee_boot>,<iop_boot>

If you were using the Linux side or linux in general (and no, Im not pulling off the panel to use it directly), you should be issuing:
dsedb -r reset 2 100 (or 180)

If Im not mistaken, that would be the ee boot, and then the iop boot?

It turns out, you can't use a space after the -r for ProDG or it looks for an elf to load. But whenever I issue the reset command, so ps2run -r2,180 , the EE sets properly, but the IOP stays set to 0.

I think this is preventing the PS2 from booting the DVD-r. Am I correct in this assumption? If so, what should I be doing to get the IOP to set?

I feel like I am so close, and yet this is the last thing thats really holding me up. The DVD emulator boots fine with ps2run -r0x70002,0 for VGA output.


Edit: Nevermind, go figure after days of playing with it, after all this, I would issue one more command and it booted, this time using the GUI for ProDG. No guarantees it continues to work so Ill keep this open, but still -_-

Heres my solution, for safe keeping

 

Try reset 0x000f0002 0x100.

 

Hah I actually got it working just after I posted, go figure. Added an image to show what my reset looks like.

 

Ah, happens to everyone

Glad you got it all working!

 

The magical board post. No saying the command will work when I try it tomorrow though hah

 

silly question but what is ps2run?

 

Yep xD but I guess that's what you get for using old devstuff!

ps2run is included with ProDG for PlayStation 2. It's a command-line utility that allows the executing of ELF files on a DTL-T10K, it allows you to set the home & file serving directories, reset modes, capturing of TTY, binary load to a specific hex address and a few other things. An example:-

ps2run -t IP_ADDRESS -r0x000F0000,0x100 -f C:\some\fileserving\dir -h C:\some\home\dir -x -p OPL.ELF

This will run OPL.ELF on IP_ADDRESS, set the file serving directory to C:\some\fileserving\dir, the home directory to C:\some\home\dir and start capturing TTY once ran. Changing -x to -xs will execute the program OPL.ELF but stop at the programs entry point.