Petitboot is a very nice looking visual version of the bootloader for the PS3, kboot. According to the creator, it should work as a replacement of otheros.bld.
Find downloads and instructions here: http://ozlabs.org/~jk/projects/petitboot/
Thanks, Jeremy!
UPDATE 2: A sollution has been posted to the HowTos forum. Thanks, trainstoker!
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21 Comments
Apr 14th, 2007
Oh thx for the link ! I wanna try it !
Apr 14th, 2007
Just installed this and now I can’t boot into Debian anymore. I can hit delete and return to the XMB though.
Apr 14th, 2007
Likewise… nothing seems to boot from this, uh, boot loader.
Apr 26th, 2007
Hi folks, Jeremy here.
If you’re having trouble booting, please send me an email (jk at ozlabs.org). I’ll probably need a copy of your kboot.conf and a description of what goes wrong (no icons? or just doesn’t boot when you hit enter?). Alternatively, you can probably find me on freenode, as jk-.
This is still at beta stage, and the more bugs we can get sorted out now, the better
Cheers!
Jeremy
Apr 27th, 2007
I have tried to boot from petitboot, and it is load the loader, but when I try to run something from CD is not working. The CD is boot CD and if I boot from that is working (Ubuntu). An another problem is that I thought I will install Ubuntu from External HDD, but loader do not see it. Is there a way to make it to see the external HDD?
Jun 24th, 2007
Does not work. It wont boot anything.
Jul 28th, 2007
Works just fine for me, except boot timeout.
How do you get it to select 720p as default, though?
And how do you create new icons?
Jul 31st, 2007
man, i cant boot game os or run live….
why!!!!! help!!!!
-i run in circles
Aug 1st, 2007
Did you type:
boot-game-os?
Try downloading the ubuntu image again and check if the md5sum is the same for the two iso files.
Jan 11th, 2008
Hi all,
I’ve just put up a new version of petitboot: v0.2. More at: http://ozlabs.org/~jk/diary/tech/cell/petitboot-0.2.diary/
Let me know how you go!
Jeremy
Jan 29th, 2008
Hi, Jeremy,
after installing Petitboot 0.2 it no longer boots any media (I’ve tried to boot Megabox and Xubuntu 7.10). “Boot install” message is displayed forever. I was able to boot Megabox using Petitboot 0.1 without any problem.
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