Re: [opensuse-ppc] PS3 install comments
Hi Yesterday I was able to occupy the TV for a few moments to try again, and here what i observed. 1st i should note, that It always annoyed me with opensuse 11.1-ppc beta 5.1 that i could not change the resolution. Since I am a big KDE fan, I lower the resolution to save memory, and doing this (720p on the boot splash) sent me to a black terminal. A while ago I tossed the openSUSE 11 ppc, but I found OpenSUSE 11.1 beta 2. Then took the otheros.bld from that one, powered down and up, and suddenly I noticed the graphic is moving on the splash screen, and i could set the resolution - even when installing beta 5 :-) So i started on the otheros.bld from 11.1beta2 to install 11.1 beta5. But then it was VERY SLOW, and never finished. 1st try dies in the partitioner (freeze). Second try sent me to a terminal, where the questions followed on cli, but I gave up when it asked for the installation server (it did not see the DVD anymore??) Still not there yet. As to the different brands of DVDs - indeed my beta 2 is burnt on another brand of dvd media. Since they are at home I cannot be sure about the beta 2 (but i think it is verbatim) but beta 5 is on a imation DVD. Thomas
Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de> 11/24/2008 2:56 PM >>> Larry Stotler wrote: On 11/24/08, Stefan Assmann <sassmann@suse.de> wrote: Really hard to tell what went wrong there :) Most problems I observed where related to the system running out of memory. That sometimes happens before swap gets activated.
If you are doing an install and have a previous linux swap partition, can't you activate that during the boot? Not sure how the PS3 boots because I don't own one yet....
Not necessary anymore as we have the ps3vram driver now :)
Also, I have several systems with only 256MB. Does the PS3 allow all of the 256MB or does it steal some of it and only allow so much? It would be really nice if the 256MB of graphics ram was available. The low ram is probably the biggest drawback for me(since I don't play games....).
Normally you get around 210MB of RAM, that's what the hypervisor exposes. Additionally now you get around 240MB of VRAM which will be used as swap during installation. You shouldn't run out of memory anymore while installing. Stefan -- Stefan Assmann | SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Software Engineer | Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Mail: sassmann@suse.de | GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
Hi Thomas, Thomas Nielsen wrote:
Hi Yesterday I was able to occupy the TV for a few moments to try again, and here what i observed. 1st i should note, that It always annoyed me with opensuse 11.1-ppc beta 5.1 that i could not change the resolution. Since I am a big KDE fan, I lower the resolution to save memory, and doing this (720p on the boot splash) sent me to a black terminal.
You're right about that, thanks for letting me know. It's not a big issue you can just rerun petitboot-gui and it should be fine.
A while ago I tossed the openSUSE 11 ppc, but I found OpenSUSE 11.1 beta 2. Then took the otheros.bld from that one, powered down and up, and suddenly I noticed the graphic is moving on the splash screen, and i could set the resolution - even when installing beta 5 :-) So i started on the otheros.bld from 11.1beta2 to install 11.1 beta5.
We moved to the latest upstream version of petitboot which has a lot of the code rewritten.
But then it was VERY SLOW, and never finished. 1st try dies in the partitioner (freeze). Second try sent me to a terminal, where the questions followed on cli, but I gave up when it asked for the installation server (it did not see the DVD anymore??) Still not there yet.
Sounds like bad media to me.
As to the different brands of DVDs - indeed my beta 2 is burnt on another brand of dvd media. Since they are at home I cannot be sure about the beta 2 (but i think it is verbatim) but beta 5 is on a imation DVD.
I've been using Verbatim and these worked fine for me. Thanks for all your feedback, it's appreciated! Stefan -- Stefan Assmann | SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Software Engineer | Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg Mail: sassmann@suse.de | GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+help@opensuse.org
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