How to resize vflash and install petitboot

**Charlooch** · 05-11-2011,04:56 AM

oh and word to the wise lol don't disable bluetooth ever. if you happen to have your ps3 controller on while using linux it will stay on and not shut off.

**cookie42** · 05-11-2011,05:14 AM

Oops yeah, I had another look at your screenshot, you've already got his kernel installed, and the ram is right.
I just tested, you don't even have to unmount the swap partition, just delete it and the extended area (which doesn't look like it's even formatted, it's just a blank partition) with Disk Utility, it should leave you with 10.9gb free. You'll get the error if you delete them in the wrong order (i think), but it doesn't matter. Just create a 2gb partition with the free space and make it a swap area, easy to do. And make another partition with the free space. It won't be part of your main partition, merging it would probably be too irritating, but you'd have your space back.

**xPreatorianx** · 05-11-2011,03:09 PM

Originally Posted by Charlooch

Sure man. I'll post some up as soon as i can. May be a while but i'll try and get them up within the hour

the way my vflash2 HD got partitioned seems weird. i have a 2.5 gb of free space that i couldn't add to the main partition and i have a s gb swap and a 5 gb logical for external. lol hey as long as it's working though! I'll figure a way to set it right though. i'm mostly a ubuntu guy/fedora guy. I haven't used windows in like 5 years.

I basically had the same thing, I believe the tools are setup for a specific hard drive in all honesty. When I first used the tools I had a 17MB boot partition (or maybe more.), a 2GB swap, and than a 20 GB EXT3 partition. Than I had like 20 more gigs of free space just sitting there. So I actually deleted all the partitions and set them up just like in the video so I would only have 3 partitions.

Also remember, you have full access to some of the PS3 file system so BE CAREFUL when you are messing around with the partitions. You can accidentally remove a critical PS3 file if you aren't careful. I noticed that last night. I may actually see if I can get those locked on the linux side so I can't see them or something.

Also how do I get bluetooth working? I tried it last night and it wouldn't stop trying to connect to the controller. It kept saying it found the controller and than when I hit accept it did it again.

Also you have to install sudo, it's not installed automatically or at least it wasn't on my install. I can't remember where I found the instructions to install sudo but it shouldn't take you long to find it in google. But yea I used the tasksel command to install the GUI because installing it by command line was giving me some trouble.

I would also advise you to get real VNC and X11 open SSH and tinker around with that so you can remote into your machine from your PC.

**Ice T** · 05-11-2011,03:16 PM

Hey guys,

I`ve got a little problem too.

All pkgs working fine with two beeps but create vflash 7 and delete vflash 7 don`t work.
So I have no vflashh.
Console is a CECHH04.

Is there a solution for this problem?

**xPreatorianx** · 05-11-2011,05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Ice T

Hey guys,

I`ve got a little problem too.

All pkgs working fine with two beeps but create vflash 7 and delete vflash 7 don`t work.
So I have no vflashh.
Console is a CECHH04.

Is there a solution for this problem?

Are you doing it in the right order? Also are you running UDP_Printf to log the errors?

If they aren't working do this, run create_vlfash7 and than resize vflash7. If that doesn't work do the resize and than create. Sometimes doing it in the original order doesn't work for some reason. Once both of those actually work and printf says that they work. Go into petitboot and run this command after hitting ESC

Code:

 -la /dev/ps3vflashh

If it returns "error not found" redo delete_vflash7,create_vflash7, resize_vflash. It should appear back in petitboot

I had the same problem myself. But even if it does actually list that it works, please do the vflash 7 steps again just to make sure. So delete, create, resize in that order. Than run this command again in petitboot to verify again

Code:

 -la /dev/ps3vflashh

. After that you are good to go.

Note : If your system freezes at all during the installation process, you have to redo the create,delete, resize vflash7 commands. Otherwise it will continually freeze on each installation.

Note 2: Always run udp_printf_client.exe when you are doing the process with the vflash. That way you can easily copy and paste the logs here so we can look at it.

EDIT:I can't seem to attach the .zip file so I'll upload it to multiupload. Later on I'll also write a batch script to save the output of the client to a text file so people can easily upload it or copy and paste it into a post. http://www.multiupload.com/MGDJI8U30W

**Ice T** · 05-11-2011,05:41 PM

Thank you very much for the reply.

I`ll give it a try tomorrow.

**xPreatorianx** · 05-11-2011,10:34 PM

Originally Posted by Ice T

Thank you very much for the reply.

I`ll give it a try tomorrow.

No problem here's an updated link with udp_printf that is launched from a bat file. This way you can simply copy and paste the contents of the outputted text file into a reply if you are having any trouble.

here are the instructions :

Download this file here click on log.bat and a window will open up with a blinking cursor. (that's udp_printf). Basically this bat file opens udp_printf and than logs all messages from it and puts them into a text file that is located at "C:\log.txt." After your done with the process just simply close the window and log.txt will be in that location. Than simply copy and paste the text file into a reply if you are having any problems. When you are copy and pasting the text file use the code BBC tags.

For example :

Code:

Insert output here

The tags are ( CODE, /CODE with brackets)

Here is the source for the batch file so everyone knows exactly what it is doing (so you guys don't think anything nasty is happening.)

Code:

@echo off
udp_printf_client.exe >C:\log.txt

Like I said it's just a simple batch file. Took me all of 10 seconds to write.

EDIT: If you have any game compatibility issues please report them in this thread here (OtherOS++ game compatibility list)

**Charlooch** · 05-11-2011,10:47 PM

I never used the udp print thing. It spoils the surprise of not knowing if it's going to install or not

lol i'm reinstalling right now. Just when i got all my emulators back, BTW all my backed up games,emus worked. At first on crsysi 2 i got the trophy sync thing, but re did it in MM and played it last game played and it played fine.

Ok so anyways i was trying to fix my weird partition scheme but couldn't get it right, kept saying error then it would still do the work like cookie said. So at on e point i went to delete the extended space one and i restarted..
I had a partition that said free space 12389874287497497423 TB. Anyways i got the partition down right now and everything will go smoothly this time. It's no big deal though to me, things like this always happen and i end up doing them over and over again.

Also damn! the new multiman is the hotness! has it's own damn xmb and everything.

**Charlooch** · 05-11-2011,10:57 PM

One thing i'm still wondering is are we ever going to be able to directly just shut down the ps3 through linux? you know, instead of having to get up and hold the power button for 30 seconds. Or is there a way and i just never read about it. Wish we could get the ps3's built in wifi going too. That would make me complete.

On another sidenote the PC engine emu doesn't seem to be working, but i don't think thats cause of the other OS++ firmware. Was having the same problem with it on kmeaw. One day it just stopped working and got one of those 80090908r error codes.

**xPreatorianx** · 05-11-2011,11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Charlooch

One thing i'm still wondering is are we ever going to be able to directly just shut down the ps3 through linux? you know, instead of having to get up and hold the power button for 30 seconds. Or is there a way and i just never read about it. Wish we could get the ps3's built in wifi going too. That would make me complete.

On another sidenote the PC engine emu doesn't seem to be working, but i don't think thats cause of the other OS++ firmware. Was having the same problem with it on kmeaw. One day it just stopped working and got one of those 80090908r error codes.

Not sure to be honest. Actually if I recall correctly last night all I did was shutdown from the GUI and it shut down my PS3. I have the old phat though. Maybe I'm mistaken. Also I have no clue on the emu, I never tried it.

I did notice on linux that when I was in the command prompt before I got the GUI working it kept coming up with an error like this : ge3ic_eurus_sync_cmd_worker : cmd issue failed -16.

I believe that is the error but I may have it written down wrong. It was weird as hell. I have no idea if it's still doing it because I am using the GUI now and haven't messed around with my PS3 since yesterday. But I didn't use terminal last night IIRC.

EDIT: I know this is off topic but you guy should try the gentoo liveDVD on your PC. It's awesome! to say the least.

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