Blackrhino USB install with Kernelloader

[Peterpan]

@deba5er

Great success. With the new image installing and booting is fine. Joymouse/Dillo etc. works. I fixed the entries in dillo/resolve etc with vi in the same way. Maybe you can fix it in the 0,8 image.

Thank you for your help!
peterpan

[EJM]

I finally got to try it out today. It loaded fine, but I didn't get any internet connection. I did change all the necessary files with my IP address but I need to look into it further since I had to leave to go out. My plans are to fix the internet connection and then work on getting it to boot from the HDCombo hard drive. I don't believe it will work from HDCombo because I recall Hdloader needed a patch to detect HDcombo, but we'll see.

Thanks a lot for all your hard work deba5er and all the others working on this.

[deba5er]

@peter bostwick

If you want an easy hard drive install for the FAT PS2, try downloading ps2linux_v0.7.zip along with the two tar.bz2 packages which you already downloaded from http://www.4shared.com/dir/10437217/...ux_Distro.html

It installs to the hard drive from a usb flash drive. The instructions are in the zip file. In kernelloader you must enable ROM1:LIBSD and ROM1:SNDDRV in the modules section to get sound. PS2-Linux works very fast with all features on the FAT PS2 (v3 to v7), but the v9 sound isn't working without the RTE modules.

The base .bz2 files has /etc/XGSConfig with settings which work for me - what isn't working - graphics/mouse?

@EJM - Good luck with HDCOMBO. I am very interested in your tests. The Slim PSTwo needs to run kloader2.0.elf (only version 2.0 works to my knowledge) and also should select the vmlinux_fat_and_slim_v2.gz kernel. You can in kernelloader go to File menu, Restore Defaults, and then it should be setup to use the network on the Slim.

@Peterpan - Good to hear it. I have lots of user-friendliness left to build into the script and instructions for v0.8 ;-)

[peter bostwick]

@deba5er

Thanks for response to a rather all over the place questioning just did not know where to start. I tried your two base and usr bz2 files and made a proc dir. and changed the password for adent. with "changeme". The only sound i got tried xmms radio and a single mp3 file. I got sound but it sounded like tiny sqeaks barely audible.

after getting fustrated with this i tried a different route and went with the base image from source forge that mega man put up I guess. then after updating with dselect all the packeges that i thought i needed. and using
"startx -- -screen 0 NTSC " no mouse at this point. Changed multiple different /devs such as /dev/usbmouse /dev/mouse /dev/input/mice /dev/rte XGSConfig.

Does it have something to do with gdm "gdm" if i spelt it write is somekind of mouse control program that got download i guess as a dependcy from playstation2 -linux.com. If I get totally fustrated with getting x to work properly. I will go back with your files as starting point. The links browser works. Have not tried compiling anything yet. thanks for your time in considering my problems.

[deba5er]

@peter bostwick

I started with the same blackrhino base and went through this same mouse problem when I first started. You should use the XGSConfig from my distro base .bz2 package. It sets to /dev/input/mice AND uses the IMPS/2 setting. For the sound problem it sounds like you have a version 9 or above PS2. You said you had two FAT PS2s. What versions are they? If you have versions up to 7, you should be able to get the sound to work easily. However, I have a version 9 that has a "squeaky" or quick stuttery play effect for sound using the same ROM1 modules that work in my v7 and v3. I was only able to make it work with the official PS2-Linux RTE sound modules. PS2-Linux kits are rare and expensive. I've asked Sarah Ewen of Sony to see if she can get Sony to release the modules to the PS2-Linux community, but I got no response. You can add to the request at http://playstation2-linux.com/forum/...p?msg_id=51025

I ended up NOT using gdm, it is just another unnecessary process to use up precious memory. I realize the my installer ps2linux_v0.7.zip is beta right now, but if you have an hour to spare you should try the install to hard drive from usb flash drive.

[peter bostwick]

@deba5er

Hey the queit one is scph 5001 model # that is the one with squeaky audio.(serial fu4307544 ). I will try your install on scph -30001 R this one (u3245154) this one from the time you turn it on it is considerable louder. I Like the idea of makeing something useful. that i got for 25 $ on graigs list. That is the novelty of getting a useful linux distro on the ps2 . I will attempt your installer. Just suggestion
maybe for future release you could make install so that the 5 config files could be taken care of after you are in x on ps2. something like a wizard. Thanks again.

[peter bostwick]

@deba5er

cool i see you just uploaded two new files to the 4 shared I will try those instead. Peter

[EJM]

How would I go about installing xmame, can someone give me a quick guide?

[peter bostwick]

@ Deba5er

I got your installer running right now.alot of warnings with tar cannot not open ; can not create symlink; no such file or directory. the usb drive is still blinking I had to run through it twice. ext3 did not work the first time. what is ps2fdisk. the only ones i got to use on the other ramdisks images (initrd.gz) where fdisk and sfdisk. I had hell of time going from hdloader to ps2 linux boot record with just fdisk alone. The only way i could get it to read was using sfdisk.well got to go now will tell you if this installer works. still getting tons of cannot open nosuch file warnings. now I copied config sound .txt to kloader on mc card and loaded kloader and all i got was like a screen saver bunch of different collered drawings on screen. I will try different stuff later. Peter

[deba5er]

@peter bostwick

I got your installer running right now.alot of warnings with tar cannot not open

Sounds like it is not installing. Did you try to install over top of an existing hdd PS2-Linux installation? You should remove an old installation and let it repartition to properly install (this is the first installation question after selecting "h" for hard drive installation.

what is ps2fdisk.

ps2fdisk is like fdisk except it recognizes Sony ATA partitions, which means if you start with a completely un-partitioned hard drive (best thing to do to ensure success), run hdloader.elf to format the drive for hdloader, then run my installer and select "h" you can successfully run hdloader and ps2-linux on the same hard drive.

Once you run kloader elf you select boot (first menu entry) and start ps2-linux from your hard drive. Make sure you copy the config_sound.txt and rename to config.txt (from ps2linux_v0.7.zip) to mc0:\kloader. You should have sound on the older of your two FAT PS2s. The new one will not work with sound unless you have the RTE modules.

v0.8 will have more automation for config.txt now that I am using the new kernel which allows access to all directories on the memory card including mc0:\kloader. Some patience is required for this automation, as you can imagine when I make mistakes testing installations takes awhile. I have also spent much time trying to understand sound and usb problems. This weekend I changed /etc/fstab for usb users to include the noatime option, and also set the kernel parameter "elevator=noop". I got over 10% improvement but it wasn't as significant as I had hoped.