Few tips for 6.72:
- Loaders that are confirmed to work for CUH-1004A:
https://leeful.github.io/672/index.html
https://ps4boot.github.io/
- Remember of proper JB order:
JB > MIRA > Linux
If you o not load MIRA before Linux payload, PS4 will simply turn off.
If you receive prompt with message "root" is empty it means kernel was loaded all fine but gentoo OS system partition is not visible.
- try reconnecting disk - maybe plugging to another USB port and type "resume-boot"
- if it doesn't help. check if your system partition is detected with 'fdisk -l' - it's usually "/dev/sda2" (/dev/sda1 is init partition with kernel).
- If it's detected, check if /dev/sda2 has label "gentoo". Set up label with command
tune2fs –L gentoo /dev/sda2 and then
resume-boot
- Additional exFat partition for PKGs, Emu etc:
If you want to add extra partition, you can resize gentoo partition to how big you want (make sure label "gentoo" is not wiped as init looks for partiton labeled "
gentoo" as OS).
Put exFat partition however large you want.
install exFat support:
emerge --ask sys-fs/fuse-exfat
emerge --ask sys-fs/exfat-utils
This way you have 3 partitions. Init (Fat32) + OS (Ext4) that are not detectable by Console and exFat detectable both by WIndows PC and console so you can put Retroarch data in there, PKGs etc. hence you have universal drive.
Remember to mount partition either with startup mounting point with /etc/fstab ...or by clicking on your partition in Nautilus file browser.
Your partition should be mounted in
/run/media/ps4/
...As cifs support is not added to kernel (yet), I have failed wwith other samba client mounting methods