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NetBSD on PS2

Posted by timothy on from the sure-why-not dept.

zmcgrew writes: "Linux has been out for the PS2 for a while, but what about the *BSD users? Well, now NetBSD is availible for the PS2! This means that NetBSD is now availible for 2 gaming consoles, the Dreamcast, and now the PS2. Wonder if the Game Cube and X-Box are in the works? =) I quote from the page, " To boot the kernel, you will require a special boot disc from SONY. The playstation2 can not read CD-Rs. Currently, the only such disc available is the SONY Playstation 2 Linux distribution, sold only in Japanese markets." Well, this leaves a bunch of people out, but maybe someone will figure out how to get the PS2 to boot & read CD-Rs... *Ahem* Maybe a *Co-Weekend project-ugh* for someone? =)" Looks like this port appeared last month -- which means that in a week or so, NetBSD will probably be running on the graphics subsystem alone ;)

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  1. how to boot cd-r's on a playstation 2 by aderusha · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NEO 4

    1. Re:how to boot cd-r's on a playstation 2 by hakker · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The NEO4 is CRAP - DO NOT INSTALL IT. The NEO4 is an irreversable mod to your PS2. During it's installation, not only do you have to make over 60 solder points which are EXTREMELY small, you also have to remove a capacitor and cut etched wires on the board. Furturemore, it has now been proven that it does not work with boards prior to version 4 (that is, if your PS2 is more than say 4 or 5 months old, it won't work). Go with the USB mod if you have to mod your PS2. It is only one solder wire, fairly easy to do, completely reversable, and only requires a little usb box on the outside of the PS2 and a game shark to boot the backups. Works just fine.

  2. umm by faeryman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The playstation2 can not read CD-Rs

    Yes it can. Maybe it can't boot CD-Rs (I dunno I haven't tried) but I have a mod-chipped Japanese and American model and each will read a CD-R ok. It might need a mod-chip, I dont know if a stock one will read them though.

    The Japanese one needs a blue utility disc to play Cd-Rs along with a modchip. Maybe using those would bypass the need for the Sony disc, since it ejects the utlity disc to swap a Cd-R in, then it could boot a kernel off the swapped disc?

    (man this post makes no sense)

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