How To Install Linux On Ps2

HOWTO: How to Install Linux on a Playstation 2 without Sony's Offical Linux Kit

What do yous need?

To install linux y'all demand the following things:

Playstation 2 (eastward.g. SCPH-50004 or SCPH-39004, slim PSTwo SCPH-70000 is not recommended).
PS2 Linux Kernel with VFAT support (devfs)
PS2 Linux Kernel without devfs
Initial ramdisk
Bootloader Kernelloader
Linux distribution to install. Please download blackrhino_baseimage-1.0.tar.gz from Sourceforge Download
USB retentiveness stick
Hard disc (recommended), all information will be deleted (y'all tin as well utilize a USB memory stick, but then y'all demand to change the scsi device path at your own)
Network adapter SCPH-10350 or SCPH-10281 for PS2 (recommended, required to connect the hard disc)
USB keyboard
Tv screen and a video cablevision (you tin can use the normal PS2 video cable)
PS2 retentiveness card (recommended, but not required)
A method to boot the files is required to start kloader.elf. Delight choose one:

Modchip (I don't have a modchip, but this method should work, you lot need to generate a arrangement.cnf file to start kloader.elf)
Activeness Replay: The ARmax media player can start kloader.elf
Retention carte exploit memory card exploit (not working with slim PSTwo)
Memory card exploit Free McBoot (working with old slim PSTwo)

Download vmlinux and initrd files.

Notation: It is easier to offset the Linux Live DVD and excerpt the baseimage from the DVD. The base image is at /oldroot/cdrom/SRC/BASE-ane.0.TGZ. The kernel is on the DVD at Kicking/VMLINUX.GZ.
To become the command line, y'all demand to start xterm from the carte. So y'all need to enter the command "su" to get root access.

Steps:

Note: The screen shots are from an old kernelloader version, yous should employ the newest version.

Create directory "ps2linux" on a USB memory stick and copy all files here (vmlinux, vmlinux.devfs, initrd.gz and blackrhino_baseimage-1.0.tar.gz).
Get-go "kloader.elf" using your preferred booting method. At startup you volition see the following screen. You can use the PS2 controller to navigate through the bill of fare. The push button CROSS selects a carte entry. It is also possible to utilize a USB keyboard and press Up and Downwards keys. You can select a menu entry by pressing Return.
Select kernel vmlinux.devfs. This kernel supports VFAT used on most USB memory sticks.
Select initial ramdisk (initrd). We demand a modest system to install Linux.
Disable "dmarelay.irx" (recommended). This is only required if you use other kernels with DMA back up.
Kicking Linux
Create Linux partitions on hard disc (Caution: all data will be deleted).
- fdisk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
  Commands (key + render):
  "p" - Bear witness partitions
  "d" - Delete partitions
  "northward" - Create partitions
  "t" - Alter partition type
  "w" - Write data back
  "q" - Quit
  If you use a kernel without devfs (e.m. from the Live DVD), the command is dissimilar:
  fdisk /dev/hda - internal IDE hard disc
  fdisk /dev/sda - first external USB mass storage
  fdisk /dev/sdb - 2d external USB mass storage
  
  Steps:
  1. Show all partitions with "p".
  2. Delete all partitions with "d".
  3. Create a swap partition with "n", "p", "1", "i", "+128M".
  4. Alter partitioning type with "t", "1", "82".
  5. Create root partition with "n", "p", "2", return, return.
  6. Write partition information on hard disc with "west"
Format swap partition (Circumspection: Delete all data on difficult disc):
- mkswap /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
  If yous use a kernel without devfs (e.grand. from the Alive DVD), the command is dissimilar:
  mkswap /dev/hda1 - internal IDE difficult disc
  mkswap /dev/sda1 - starting time external USB mass storage
  mkswap /dev/sdb1 - 2nd external USB mass storage
Format root partition (Circumspection: Delete all data on hard disc):
- mke2fs /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2
  If you apply a kernel without devfs (east.g. from the Alive DVD), the command is dissimilar:
  mke2fs /dev/hda2 - internal IDE hard disc
  mke2fs /dev/sda2 - starting time external USB mass storage
  mke2fs /dev/sdb2 - 2d external USB mass storage
Mount hard disc
- mkdir /mnt
- mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /mnt
  If you apply a kernel without devfs (e.g. from the Live DVD), the command is different:
  mount /dev/hda2 /mnt - internal IDE hard disc
  mount /dev/sda2 /mnt - first external USB mass storage
  mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt - second external USB mass storage
Mount USB retention stick (read only):
- mkdir /usb
- mount -r /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /usb
  If you employ a kernel without devfs (east.m. from the Live DVD), the command is different:
  mount -r /dev/sda1 /usb - first external USB mass storage
  mount -r /dev/sdb1 /usb - second external USB mass storage
Extract Linux distribution
cd mnt
tar -xzf /usb/ps2linux/black~1.gz
In that location will exist many messages printed showing that date is in the hereafter.
Customize Linux installation:
- vi /mnt/etc/fstab
  Commands:
  ESC - Get back to command mode.
  "i" - Insert text.
  "ten" - Remove graphic symbol.
  ":wq" - Save and quit.
  ":q!" - Quit and don't save.
  - Substitution "hda1" and "hda2". "hda1" must be swap. "hda2" must be "ext2".
    If yous installed to USB memory device, commutation hda by sda.
Unmount and reboot:
- cd /
- unmount /mnt
- unmount /usb
- shutdown -h now
Start "kloader.elf" using your preferred booting method.
Select kernel vmlinux.
Disable initrd
Change kernel parameter using USB keyboard to "crtmode=pal root=/dev/hda2 ro" or "crtmode=ntsc root=/dev/hda2 ro" (Go along your "pal" or "ntsc" setting).
If yous installed on USB mass storage, y'all demand to apply initrd.usb2.gz and kernel parameter "newroot=/dev/sda1" for showtime sectionalisation or "newroot="/dev/sda2" for second division and remove parameter "root".
Save configuration.
Kicking Linux.
You lot can now login as "root" user and use Linux.