Booting into PS3 Game OS from Linux

[haxen]

Goblinlord provides the following nice info:

To make an icon on your desktop with Enlightenment (which is what YDL uses as file manager by default).

First, open up a console and input this command:

su -c "ln -s /sbin/boot-game-os /bin/boot-game-os;echo '[username] localhost = NOPASSWD: /bin/boot-game-0s'>>/etc/sudoers"

Hint: copy and paste this single command

When you enter this command... replace [username] with your own username. For example, if your username was "bob" you would enter this:

su -c "ln -s /sbin/boot-game-os /bin/boot-game-os;echo 'bob localhost = NOPASSWD: /bin/boot-game-os'>>/etc/sudoers"

After you enter this you will be prompted for your root password. Enter your password.

Next, right click on your desktop area and select "Create Launcher..." Give your launcher any name you like and for the command input this:

sudo boot-game-os

You can give it an icon of your choosing if you like... as well as various other settings. Once you finish making the icon you should be able to simply activate it and it will reboot to the game os automaticly.

Added Touch:

Make a small shell script that is put in /bin that automatically does "sudo" for you so you do not to execute anything else. Here is the command that needs to be entered.

su -c "rm -f /bin/boot-game-os;echo '#! /bin/sh'>/bin/boot-game-os;echo 'sudo /sbin/boot-game-os'>>/bin/boot-game-os;chmod 555 /bin/boot-game-os;echo '[username] localhost = NOPASSWD: /sbin/boot-game-os'>>/etc/sudoers"

This way you only need to make a shortcut to do the command "boot-game-os" instead of "sudo boot-game-os". I added a remove just in case you already made a link to the file. Be sure to replace [username] with the proper user name as detailed in the above posts. This is again a single line command. You will still need to enter your root pass when you run this. You should be able to just copy/paste it and then replace the [username].

Also... I think it should be in /usr/bin ... but that is more... user preference or adhering to a standard file structure more than necessity.

[haxen]

Goblinlord, the right click on Desktop does not work with Enlightenment on YDL 5.0. Were you thinking of Fedora?

[Goblinlord]

...yes it does...
you right click and then select "Create Launcher..."
You have to be using Enlightenment not Gnome (I am not sure if you can do that[as in the same exact procedure... I know you can make shortcuts though] with GNOME or not... you can check though)

You can do pretty much the same on a lot of windows managers. Some you may have to make an entry into menus and others you can just make shortcuts right on the desktop.

[haxen]

This just in from my email to terrasoftsolutions.com:

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> My left mouse button click on the YDL Enlightenment desktop brings up
> the expected menu of configuration, system and apps choices. Should
> right mouse button click on the desktop bring up a menu as well, as
> in other windows manager systems? Another user is telling me that
> "Create Launcher" should be an option upon a right mouse button
> click on the desktop, and I am getting no menu upon a right click.
> Is this controlled somewhere? Related question: where is "create
> launcher"?, I want to create an icon that launches a script that
> reboots the PS3 into game os from the desktop.

Under Enlightenment E17 right click normally brings up the Favorites
menu. This can be disabled at the compile stage, and in YDL it is
disabled. The IBar can be used to hold you favourite applications
instead. IBar is the bar with application icons in it. On a fresh
install it has terminal, firefox, gaim, rhythmbox, various open office
programs, and nautilus.

There already is a menu item to boot the PS3 into Game OS, left click
on the Yellow Dog button, select Applications->Applications->System
Tools->Boot PS3 Game OS (PS3 Game OS). You can drag'n'drop that menu
item to the IBar.

In E17 "Create launcher" is called "Create an Application". It is
available from the Applications configuration dialog. A right click on
the IBar and select "Add Application", the "Create an Application"
button is on the bottom of that dialog.

That other user is probably talking about a different window manager.
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[Goblinlord]

*sigh*
...
I can't really believe I am have to do this just to show you it is there...

click on the pic if you need a better view

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About window is up so that you can see it is the default ver of Enlightenment that is in YDL... along with the YDL default background. I have "cat /var/log/dmesg" up so you can see it is running on the PS3. Now if you look at the menu up that has "Create Launcher..." highlighted. That is the right-click menu on the desktop. Need I say any more...

[Goblinlord]

They are talking about a different menu... the menu they are talking about is basically a similar menu to the one you get when you click on the menu button on your bar(might look like the YDL if you have the default theme on). That is the menu they are talking about... this is the menu that shows up when you do NOT have it compiled in. This IS what you get when you right-click on the desktop when you have YDL installed. There is only one version of YDL released... and as you can see... the version of Enlightenment that is comes with YDL is clearly on my screen.

[Goblinlord]

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Here is a screen with .discinfo and Release notes open... as far as I know I have v5.0 release.

disc size is exactly 3,573,985,280 bytes... if you can... can you tell me ur disc size for your YDL

[haxen]

Check out my desktop, and ran same cat command as you and right clicked and lookee. Now when I am in root, the right click does not work, Terrasoft tells me that Nautilus is loaded as windows manager instead of E17.

[Goblinlord]

lol =P...
Actually the cat was just to prove it was on the PS3 by shoing the ps3pf... I couldn't really think of any quicker way to show I was using YDL... I prolly should have just shown the kernel I was using. Anyway, you say "now that I am in root"... are you logging in as root to get into your windows manager? I might suggest you don't really want to do that... its more security than anything... but it just isn't normally a good idea... and you don't really need to.

[Krack3n]

I just made a icon witht he command boot_game_os

took me 2 seconds... no need to do all the su and other crap if someone is looking for something quick and easy.

no one will touch that shortcut cus im the only one using linux on my ps3

/edit: i should also mention i do everything in root so i dont need to su anything... i guess if you dont use root as your main login you'd probably have to su it