Comment 9 for bug 376674

Hello,

I've just experienced this same error and managed to get the system working. I'm not a kboot expert but my take on this is, by default, Ubuntu 9.04 is installing itself on a LVM partitioned drive and kboot does not support LVM.

So the fix for me was to:

1. Re-install Unbuntu
2. Choose Manual Partition at the disk partitioning stage (don't choose Guided Partition)
3. Create a partitioning scheme, using filesystems, that kboot can read.
4. Continue the install as normal.

The drive layout I choose was:

/dev/ps3da1 = Primary partition, 10.2 GB, ext3 filesystem (created at end of drive space)
/dev/ps3da2 = Extended partition
/dev/ps3da5 = Logical partition, remaining space (about 522 MB) swap filesystem.

After going through the install the system rebooted and Ubuntu is working.

Note that the dropbear error still occurs at the kboot stage, I have no thoughts on that. Also kboot has a long timeout (100) so when you reboot, be sure to press <ENTER> at the kboot prompt to get it to boot Ubuntu straight away.

For the record my PS3 has an upgraded hard drive (Samsung HM500LI 500GB). I mention this because I have seen others mention it in relation to this problem. However I don't think it's a drive or size recognition issue causing the problem, just a filesystem support mismatch with kboot.

I hope this helps.

Aaron