Gusty livecd fails to boot on PS3

[Jim Paris]

Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22

The gusty livecd from 2007/06/13 (gutsy-desktop-powerpc+ps3.iso) does not boot on the PS3.

At the kboot prompt, it prints
  Loading kernel with initrd...success.
  Booting system...
and then freezes (cursor stops blinking, ctrl-alt-delete no longer responds).

It seems to be a kernel problem.

This seems to also have been noted at:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=468992
  http://psubuntu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1650

Trying to boot the kernel manually does not work either:
/# kexec -l /mnt/root/casper/vmlinux
kernel: 0xf6ff6008 kernel_size: 7e1561
0000000000000000-0000000000000000 : 0
get base memory ranges:1
exclude_range sorted exclude_range[0] start:0, end:181e000
setup_memory_ranges memory_range[0] start:181e001, end:e000000
get memory ranges:1
000000000181e001-000000000e000000 : 0
get base memory ranges:1
exclude_range sorted exclude_range[0] start:0, end:181e000
setup_memory_ranges memory_range[0] start:181e001, end:7c00000
Modified cmdline:
info->entry is 0x1eb8000
kernel is 181f000
dt_offset is 7bff000
panic_kernel is 0
backup_start is 0
stack is 1ec0000
toc_addr is 1ec3c68
purgatory size is 21836
segment[0].mem:0x181f000 memsz:6918144
segment[1].mem:0x1eb8000 memsz:16384
segment[2].mem:0x7bff000 memsz:4096
kexec_load: entry = 0x1eb8000 flags = 150000
nr_segments = 3
segment[0].buf = 0xf7006008
segment[0].bufsz = 600b00
segment[0].mem = 0x181f000
segment[0].memsz = 699000
segment[0] crc32 = ba8a6598
segment[1].buf = 0x10081e30
segment[1].bufsz = 3cd8
segment[1].mem = 0x1eb8000
segment[1].memsz = 4000
segment[1] crc32 = a2fc07c1
segment[2].buf = 0x10085b70
segment[2].bufsz = 424
segment[2].mem = 0x7bff000
segment[2].memsz = 1000
segment[2] crc32 = 7624ba47
245: set exclude_range[0] to 0,181e000
Warning: append= option is not passed. Using the first kernel root partition
245: set exclude_range[0] to 0,181e000
sha256_regions (80 at ffa89948)
00000000: 00 00 00 00 01 81 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 69 90 00
00000010: 00 00 00 00 07 bf f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
00000020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sha256_digest (20 at ffa89a4c)
00000000: f5 86 9d 06 f9 3e 44 5c 5a 22 b0 2d 32 6d 84 74
00000010: 6b cc 44 7f 4f 71 6c 12 50 97 c0 d6 09 ce 1d b9
/# kexec -e
ifdown: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

(and it freezes here).

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Ben, could you have a look at this, please?

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

It is not expected to do so yet.