Hello everyone 
I just did a completely fresh install of Kubuntu on my PS3. It took roughly 1.5-2 hours to complete, which was the first thing that I found rather odd, but maybe that's just how long it takes or maybe the PS3's HDD is wretched 
ANYWAY, I did a fresh install, reformatted everything, gave "OtherOS" the majority of the hard drive space, chose to do a guided install and had it completely reformat my drive and use the main partition, it installed, rebooted, and... failure.
It says something about not finding a rootfs, so I googled it and thought that maybe it was just looking at the wrong drive name, but nothing I do will make it work. I tried manually typing in "/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/ps3da1" but it says it cant mount the image because of "unsupported optional features".
I looked around online and tried typing in about 10 fixes for this problem that other people were given, but nothing seems to work! I'm quite the linux n00b and I have no idea why this isn't working. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!
UPDATE: Reinstalled with the same image burnt onto a DVD instead of a CD, AND I used a different burning program, but I get the same results
Here's the exact error code:
I have tried mounting soooo many things and just nothing works. PLEASE help me! I'm flabbergasted as to why this crashes on a clean install!
I just did a completely fresh install of Kubuntu on my PS3. It took roughly 1.5-2 hours to complete, which was the first thing that I found rather odd, but maybe that's just how long it takes or maybe the PS3's HDD is wretched ANYWAY, I did a fresh install, reformatted everything, gave "OtherOS" the majority of the hard drive space, chose to do a guided install and had it completely reformat my drive and use the main partition, it installed, rebooted, and... failure.
It says something about not finding a rootfs, so I googled it and thought that maybe it was just looking at the wrong drive name, but nothing I do will make it work. I tried manually typing in "/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd.img root=/dev/ps3da1" but it says it cant mount the image because of "unsupported optional features".
I looked around online and tried typing in about 10 fixes for this problem that other people were given, but nothing seems to work! I'm quite the linux n00b and I have no idea why this isn't working. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated, thanks!
UPDATE: Reinstalled with the same image burnt onto a DVD instead of a CD, AND I used a different burning program, but I get the same results
Here's the exact error code:
Code:
EXT2-fs: ps3da1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240). EXT3-fs: ps3da1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240). EXT2-fs: ps3da1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240). mount: mounting none on /dev/pts failed /init: /init: 923: dropbear: not found Ubuntu PS3 KBoot Loader. No default root fs was found, or one was found and it didn't contains a message= config file. If no rootfs was found, you can enter the shell here with 'sh'. Exiting will return you to this prompt. In the shell you can mount your rootfs as /mnt/root/