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[[Category:OtherOS]]
=Introduction=
=Introduction=


* Sometimes we need to boot Linux without HDD e.g. if you want to experiment with HDD encryption, enable/disable it without causing damage to your data. For such cases we need a LiveCD which doesn't mount HDD at boot.
* Sometimes we need to boot Linux without HDD e.g. if you want to experiment with HDD encryption, enable/disable it without causing damage to your data. For such cases we need a LiveCD which doesn't mount HDD at boot.
=Creating Initial System with debootstrap=
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
apt-get install debootstrap
mkdir livecd
debootstrap --arch powerpc squeeze /root/livecd http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
# Grab a beer and reverse some PS3 stuff in the meantime :)
# Enter chroot environment
mount -t proc none /root/livecd/proc
mount --rbind /dev /root/livecd/dev
LANG=C chroot /root/livecd /bin/bash
export TERM=xterm-color
echo "debian" > /etc/hostname
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
# Configure network interfaces
cat /etc/network/interfaces
---
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid ssid
    wpa-psk psk
-EOF-
# Configure APT
cat /etc/apt/sources.list
---
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian squeeze main
deb http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org squeeze/updates main
-EOF-
aptitude update
aptitude install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
aptitude install console-data
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
tasksel install standard
aptitude install binutils gcc make git vim openssh-server sudo wireless-tools wpasupplicant libssl-dev libncurses5-dev
aptitude  install gcc-spu g++-spu newlib-spu spu-tools
aptitude  install parted kpartx cryptsetup libreadline-dev libaio-dev libdevmapper-dev libudev-dev
# Make SSH server start at boot so we could ssh to our LiveCD
update-rc.d ssh defaults
aptitude clean
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
# exit chroot environment
exit
# Unmount dev and proc
umount /root/livecd/dev/shm
umount /root/livecd/dev/pts
umount /root/livecd/dev
umount /root/livecd/proc
</syntaxhighlight>}}
=Creating Root Filesystem=
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
cd /root/livecd
mksquashfs * ../root.sfs
</syntaxhighlight>}}
=Modifying Root Filesystem=
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
cd /root
unsquashfs root.sfs
cd squashfs-root
# Make your changes
mksquashfs * ../root-changed.sfs
</syntaxhighlight>}}
=Linux 3 Kernel=
* We need a Linux 3 kernel with overlayfs support so we could create a tmpfs over our read-only base filesystem.
* Furthermore, we want to compile PS3 HDD driver as module because in this case we can easily change HDD region flags.
See my GIT repos:
* http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/kernel-configs
* http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/kernel-patches-34
* http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/kernel-patches-35
* http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/kernel-patches-36
* http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/livecd
=Initramfs=
See my GIT repo: http://gitorious.ps3dev.net/ps3linux/livecd
==BusyBox==
* We need a couple of user-space applications to mount filesystems, load kernel modules and so on.
* And make sure you compile BusyBox without any library dependencies.
* I compiled my BusyBox executable on PS3 Linux but you could cross-compile it too but then you need a complete PowerPC toolchain with libc.
<pre>
http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2
tar xvjf busybox-1.20.1.tar.bz2
cd busybox-1.20.1
make menuconfig
make
</pre>
==Creating Image==
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
# Populate initramfs
mkdir initramfs
cd initramfs
mkdir -p bin dev etc lib/modules/3.6.4 mnt proc sbin sys usr/bin usr/sbin
cp ~/busybox-1.20.1/busybox bin/
cd bin
ln -sf busybox sh
cd ..
echo 'sda.* 0:6 0660' >> etc/mdev.conf
echo 'sr[0-9] 0:6 0660 @ln -sf $MDEV cdrom' >> etc/mdev.conf
cat >etc/modules <<EOF
> fat
> vfat
> isofs
> crc-ccitt
> crc-itu-t
> lzo_compress
> udf
> squashfs
> overlayfs
> ps3_gelic
> ps3stor_lib
> sg
> ps3rom
> usb-common
> usbcore
> ehci-hcd
> ohci-hcd
> usb-storage
> EOF
for mod in fat vfat isofs crc-ccitt crc-itu-t lzo_compress udf squashfs overlayfs \
          ps3_gelic ps3stor_lib sg ps3rom usb-common usbcore ehci-hcd ohci-hcd usb-storage; do
    path=`find  /home/glevand/linux-3.6.4-build/lib/modules/3.6.4 -name $mod.ko`
    cp $path lib/modules/3.6.4/
done
# Create initramfs
find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initramfs.cpio
cd ..
cat initramfs.cpio | gzip > initramfs.cpio.gz
# Make changes to initramfs
gunzip initramfs.cpio.gz
mkdir initramfs
cd initramfs
cpio -i -d -H newc --no-absolute-filenames < ../initramfs.cpio
</syntaxhighlight>}}
=Images=
* vmlinux-3.6.4.xz: http://www.multiupload.nl/D0PYT6HGC0 (MD5 4b5fdb2995fde82e0f6817a7a86fca2c)
* root.sfs: http://www.multiupload.nl/MWDSBR4OJZ (MD5 3ee12e2d351e0bbe1cd7818be23d8973)
* Tools available on the root filesystem: gcc, spu-gcc, spuisofs, spuldrfs, ps3vuart-tools, ps3sed and all my other PS3 Linux drivers. Everything you need to compile and test various PS3 stuff.
* In case someone still hasn't figured it out yet, password for root is root and password for glevand is glevand :)
* I enabled DHCP on Ethernet.
* You could use WLAN too but for that you have to modify the root filesystem and configure your SSID and PSK in /etc/network/interfaces.
==USB==
* Your USB drive should be formatted with FAT32 filesystem.
* initramfs-usb.cpio.gz: http://www.multiupload.nl/Y084SCQBL3 (MD5 f94b6aec2e5fbbb26f7d466165071469)
* Create '''debianlive''' directory on your USB drive.
* Put vmlinux-3.6.4 (extract xz archive), initramfs.cpio.gz and root.sfs into this directory.
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ ls -l /mnt/usb/debianlive/
total 257696
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6746154 Aug 18 17:44 initramfs.cpio.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 249835520 Aug 18 17:15 root.sfs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  7288832 Aug 18 17:31 vmlinux-3.6.4
$ ls -l /mnt/usb/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root      188 Aug 18 17:30 kboot.conf
</syntaxhighlight>}}
* And create kboot.conf in the root directory of your USB drive with this content:
<pre>
debianlive=/debianlive/vmlinux-3.6.4 initrd=/debianlive/initramfs.cpio.gz
</pre>
==CDROM==
(files seem missing)
* initramfs-cdrom.cpio.gz: http://www.multiupload.nl/SA9YK1HFK0 (MD5 f71f8667dc52540136f90a95d7111efc)
* debianlive.iso: http://www.multiupload.nl/TW41UIVAGV (MD5 eeba4fa3428c5d687bada3fd975ea9dd)
* https://www.sendspace.com/file/2negnt (added missing link to debianlive)
* https://mega.nz/#!k1sTXI4a!ANmRDBVYmEdaToauoePNSKvoDl7GXGw0ORNN9ZM0Tfo
* https://www.sendspace.com/file/f8wnpe
* http://uploaded.net/file/vdxmzopu
* https://disk.yandex.com/d/t7o60xrWTVlYqA
<!-- https://www.sendspace.com/file/a3bsty -->
{{Keyboard|content=<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
mkdir -p iso/debianlive
cp root.sfs initramfs.cpio.gz vmlinux-3.6.4 iso/debianlive
echo "debianlive=/debianlive/vmlinux-3.6.4 initrd=/debianlive/initramfs.cpio.gz" > iso/kboot.conf
cd iso
mkisofs -R -J -l -o ../debianlive.iso .
cd ..
sudo cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=fast
sudo cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 debianlive.iso
</syntaxhighlight>}}


=Links=
=Links=
* http://securityfocus.eu/?p=149
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