Free MC Boot Installation

THIS NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED AND REWRITTEN, WIP

Prepare the PS2 for hot swapping

• open PS2
• block the lid detection mechanism

Booting into COGSWAP

Requirements

• An original PS2 DVD game (any should do but YMMV)
• a blank DVD
• GNU ddrescue -- to make ISO copy from original PS2 DVD game (unlike cat or dd, ddrescue will retry in case of read errors)
• COGSWAP -- an ELF binary that permits the arbitrary boot of any CDR/DVDR
• Apache 1.1 -- to modify the original ISO copy

Instructions

• make a copy of an original DVD PS2 game

 ddrescue /dev/sr0 donor.iso

• Figure out which file is booted by the PS2 on this ISO (it's not always the same file):

sudo mount -o loop donor.iso /media/cdrom
cat /media/cdrom/SYSTEM.CNF
     BOOT2 = cdrom0:\SLES_535.33;1   <- # THIS FILE SLES_535.33
     VER = 1.01                         # IT SHOULD ALSO BE WRITTEN
     VMODE = PAL                        # ON THE DISC ITSELF NEAR PS LOGO!
sudo umount /media/cdrom0

• Rename the cogswap.elf file to the filename you found

mv cogswap.elf SLES_535.33

• Note the size of the file (important in case you use a different version of COGSWAP)

ls -l SLES_535.33
     -rw-r--r-- 1 a a 58160 Jun  9 16:58 SLES_535.33

• Start Apache

wine Apache.exe

• In "File", open donor.iso
• click and select the relevant SLES file
• In "ISO Tools" go to "Change TOC for selected file, then in "Size (dec)", put 58160 (adjust if needed), press "Update"

• click and select the relevant SLES file
• In "ISO Tools" go to "Update Selected File" and choose the prepared COGSWAP version of the SLES file, update.

• Burn the modified donor.iso to a blank DVDR

Done you now have a PS2 DVD that contains COGSWAP.

• Burn Ulaunch

wodim -v dev=/dev/sr0 -dao Ulaunch.iso

• Copy newbie package to USB key

mount /dev/sdc1 /media/stuff
sudo cp -r Noobie_Package /media/stuff
umount /dev/sdc1