[Harryjoe]

use dropbox mate

[butnut]

Originally Posted by dlbogdan Well, the process of preparing your PS3 for OtherOS wipes your drive clean It partitions the drive. EDIT: I have my linux backup all prepared to use metldrpwn ) if anyone needs it.. It's an arhive ready to be extracted onto an external drive (ext3 formatted and booted with petitboot. Beying a 730 MB file, I'm having trouble finding a place to upload it.

You can use winrar to split it into smaller sections.

[dlbogdan]

Originally Posted by Harryjoe use dropbox mate

had no ideea you can use dropbox for such large files...

EDIT: Use the dropbox link!
LINK DELETED : anyway, until i upload it to dropbox you can try to download it from my server here:


Dropbox link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlxu7qkfoh...rpwn_image.tgz


for the backup itself i used this

cd /
tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/media /

edit, if you do get the file, there's some tasks to do before you can boot.
first, at petitboot you must edit the 'test' entry (press e) and change root to /dev/sda1 (or whatever drive/partition you have on your external usb) because I had it installed on internal ps3 drive
DON'T FORGET! you must use an ext3 or ext4 formatted partition for this. Just extract the arhive onto it. (i guess you'll need linux for this)
linux auth:
user: ps3
pass: ps3

you can then sudo -s

metldrpwn is in root's home (/root)
just provide your own metldr and eid0 and run the script.

edit2: oh, you might want to add a linux swap partition on your drive witch you can enable it when you first boot with swapon . I highly recommend using a HDD usb drive instead of a normal flash disk. It would be a lot faster in most cases.

[haz367]

thx everyone for helping out..u know who u are

after getting the tip on howto build OMAC cex/dex hash with FileHash and passing me the "batch" files to AES EN/Decrypt, then u need to check/read it a couple time to fit the puzzle together..i recommended if u perform this, do not to rely on the 1click tools at first, c2d works perfect and makes valid dexdump, u can use it to compare it with the one u did by hand, they MUST be identical, atleast do it a couple times so u'll understand proccess

[henterson]

Originally Posted by dlbogdan just provide your own metldr and eid0 and run the script.

So you have to extract your metldr from a nor dump beforehand, right? Where do i put metldr then and how does it have to be named?
And do you really need to get eid0 before using meldrdump?
In the tutorial (http://wiki.gitbrew.org/wikibrew/Metldrpwn) it is said that you don't have to provide eid0, when using run.sh, because it is commented out there.
I will try to use your Linux distribution. Thanks for providing it.

[butnut]

Originally Posted by henterson So you have to extract your metldr from a nor dump beforehand, right? Where do i put metldr then and how does it have to be named? And do you really need to get eid0 before using meldrdump? In the tutorial (http://wiki.gitbrew.org/wikibrew/Metldrpwn) it is said that you don't have to provide eid0, when using run.sh, because it is commented out there. I will try to use your Linux distribution. Thanks for providing it.

yes, you will have to extract your metldr from a nor dump beforehand.

name it "metldr" (no quotes)

put it and "EID0" (no quotes)

into the metldrpwn folder you will create.

I used run.sh without providing EID0 and my output was bad.

[badhabit]

i can confirm the cex2dex patcher method works

+ used memdump to dump the Nor (thx an0n, you tha man !!)
+ HW Flasher output is exactly the same.. tried it
+ used Flowrebuilder to unpack the Nor Dump
(btw. Flowrebuilder can also unpack 4.11 dumps where norunpack fails..)
+ had to recompile the metldrpwn as the compiled one from glevant didnt work for me ..
+ used petitboot and red ribbon for the root key
+ used cex2dex patcher (thx andbey0nd, acab, zadow) for dex.bin
+ flashed back via hw flasher / also tried petitboot works good aswell

so now i am on 3.55 dex ; gonna try E3 cex/dex dualboot

has anyone an idea if i need to patch the dex FW "no check" for downngraded consoles ??

kudos to zecoxao and the others for helping all the people out !! thats the spirit dudes !!

[haz367]

cd into mtldrpwn folder
type: make
type: ./run.sh

@dlbogdan : thx for the prebuild petitboot image
edit @HipHopStyler
i'm guessing not..diff kernels and stuff?

[HipHopStyler]

@dlbogdan : thx for the prebuild petitboot image

Does it also work with YellowDog Linux 6.0 or do I need some special Linux Version like Ubuntu or Debian ?

[mckenziesdaddy]

@HipHopStyler , I have been asking for help, So have a few other people. No one has really taken the time to write the steps in order yet. There has been someone who I know has done it, He said it took him 8 hrs and he would not be writing anything. I do wish someone would take the time to help us all out. For the ones that are doing this with ease and then moving right on, And not wanting to help anyone they are as bad as the Dev's that hide this. Someone said give it a few days, When I asked what he meant, He didn't respond so your guess is as good as mine. Here is to hoping someone cares.