Re: Boot netbsd on playstation2 with modchip
"Jared D. McNeill" <[email protected]> Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:14:43 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.playstation2 |
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On 17-Dec-06, at 10:06 PM, der Mouse wrote: >>> Who be tried load Netbsd kernel with "uLoaderELF" or similar loader >>> on "modchip" Playstation2 ? >> I'm not aware of any work in this area. As far as I'm aware, the >> NetBSD/playstation2 port currently has dependencies on the "Runtime >> Environment" provided by the PS2 Linux kit. > > I'd certainly appreciate any work done on lifting this restriction. > I'd be very interested in booting NetBSD on mine via some variant of > the Independence Day exploit (which I have verified does indeed > work on > the hardware I have). (I'd like to run NetBSD, but I'm not willing to > pay Sony's extorti^Wfees only to get a gratuitously crippled view of > the machine.) How does the ID exploit work? I have the North American linux kit and it's a pain in the butt to use (swapping DVDs, etc). Of course, the one nice thing you do get with the Linux kit is the VGA adapter.. although I suppose this isn't as big of a deal these days with HDTVs becoming cheaper and cheaper. Cheers, Jared