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What I still find hard to believe is that the whole "cracking" effort was based around the fact Sony removed OtherOS and they (the hackers) wanted to return it
by christoph 16y ago
What I still find hard to believe is that the whole "cracking" effort was based around the fact Sony removed OtherOS and they (the hackers) wanted to return it to the people who paid for it. I still can't seem to find a workable solution to re-enable it or install a custom Linux distro on my PS3...
- wccrawford 16y agoYou expected them to add a feature like that overnight? That's a pretty big thing to hack into the firmware.
- christoph 16y agoI didn't expect them to hack it into the firmware overnight, but I thought maybe somebody would have re-signed OtherOS.self for > 3.15 firmwares on phat PS3's, created a homebrew bootloader or developed a basic proof of concept. All i've seen so far is people developing backup managers and PSN hacks.
- tsuraan 16y agoI believe that AsbestOS (http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/ http://marcansoft.com/blog/2010/10/asbestos-running-linux-as... seems most authoritative) is what you're looking for. It's early; you need to netboot a PPC linux kernel, but that blog post mentions pretty much everything that you need to do to get linux running in GameOS. I can't find anything about a root-key signed version of AsbestOS that allows booting without the USB hack, but I could have sworn that I had found it earlier today. Maybe somebody else can give a link?