So I recently got a PS3 and found it was running 2.42 firmware. I decided to try the OtherOS feature with Ubuntu 9.04 for the PS3. I got to the kboot command line part and hit enter, then things went wrong. After I hit that, the PS3 decided that now would be the perfect time to YLOD. I reset the sytem and it greets me at the kboot command line, but pressing enter at the kboot line however causes the screen to go blank and the lights on keyboard and mouse to go off. I also tried typing "boot-game-os" to go back to the XMB but says "not found." Does anyone here know how to fix this or can point out a step I'm possibly missing? EDIT: command to boot back into the XMB is actually "game" on 9.04 and the PS3 still lives. Tried reformatting 10GB for OtherOS but Ubuntu still doesn't want to boot. Does it need something newer than PS3's 2.42 firmware?
3.15 is the latest with official Other OS support, installing that and grabbing the latest Ubuntu is probably the easiest way of making sure they are both from the same time period. You can even upgrade to the latest http://rebug.me/ REX and use OtherOS.
Found out 2.42 is from 2008 while Ubuntu 9.04 is from 2009. Will definitely update and see if that works. I do plan to jailbreak and use otheros++, but just want to try out the official stuff first.
My install on rebug was complicated. The existing drive was 60GB, so I dumped an image of it. I then dumped the image onto an empty 160GB drive. I used the resizing script to recognize the drive's empty space to allow an install of Red Ribbon. It was magical, up until my unit started YLOD issues. The issue I had was that the script refused to reallocate the space... But by dropping in a bigger drive with that extra space existing behind it, I got around that.
