!!INSTALL!! Ps2 Cd Loader Elf Download
Looking to learn about game development? Are you a Linux enthusiast looking to test the claim that "Linux runs on everything"? Perhaps you are a software developer who is looking to release for multiple architectures, and you don't have another MIPS Little Endian machine on-hand for testing your programme. Whatever your situation there are a surprising number of reasons to install Linux on a Playstation 2, even sixteen years after it's release (boy do I feel old all of a sudden.), yet an equally surprising lack of documentation about it or how to install it.
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Now don't get me wrong, if you want to use the original Sony Linux Kit, or one of it's updated open source releases on a fat PS2 with a network adapter and an IDE hard disk you can find plenty of info. However this requires the acquisition of several things, and can be quite expensive, especially when it comes to the Sony Linux Kit itself. This guide will cover some basics about the PS2's native hardware, and it's hardware compatibility, and then we'll move on to how to install Linux on a wider variety of PS2.
Now on to the Linux installation: (a quick side note, if you just want to test or play around with Linux on your PS2, you can simply burn the image found here: [link] ( _live_v3_ntsc_large_no_modchip.7z/download) to a DVD and run this programme [link] ( ) via uLaunchELF from a flash drive or memory card with no setup required. Now on with the Linux!)
First of all there are several prerequisites for installing Linux on your PS2, please note that this guide is aimed at installation on a slim PS2, if you have a fat PS2 you should download and install the copy of Sony's PS2 Linux here: [link] ( ) Also note that the machine used to test this guide was a PS2 model SCPH-79001 (silver special edition) and thus it is safe to assume this should work on any model of PS2 lower than SCPH-90000 (the model SCPH-90000 and later cannot be softmodded, and thus you will not be able to launch a Linux bootloader.)
2.) A memory card of at least 8MB, but preferably 16MB, 32MB or 128MB to ensure you have ample space. This MC will permanently hold your boot loader configuration, Linux kernel, and RamDisk. Since your FreeMCBoot installation will take up approx. 4.5MB on it's respective MC, plus the Kernel, RamDisk, and config file together will take up at least 7MB (up to 9.5MB if you choose to include the generic RamDisk as well) and you only have two MC slots, unless you are willing to use a MC port expansion you will likely need the extra space provided by an above-average size MC to store your saved games.
4.) Access to an existing install of a Debian based system (while making this guide I used Debian 8), if you are on a macOS or Windows system I recommend using VirtualBox, but make sure you install the guest additions to more easily transfer the required files.
5.) A USB 1.1 or 2.0 keyboard. While Sony's PS2 Linux, and the BlackRhino Linux live DVD come with an on screen keyboard, this installation will use Debian 5, which requires a proper physical keyboard.
2.) Copy the files vmlinux_v11.gz, initrd.usb2.gz, and kloader3.0.elf to a flash drive formatted as FAT32, plug it into your PS2, and copy them to a folder named kloader on your MC of choice (must have at least 7MB free). If there isn't enough space you can copy kloader3.0.elf to a second MC, but I recommend keeping the files together if possible.
17.) In uLaunchELF, navigate to mc0:/kloader/ or mc1:/kloader/ if you placed the boot loader on your second MC in step 2. Run kloader3.0.elf, watch the bottom of the screen, and when Autobooting in 3... appears, press a button on your controller, or a key on the USB keyboard. A boot configuration menu should appear.
18.) Go to the bottom of the menu using the arrow keys on your USB keyboard, and select Advanced Menu. Go to Select Kernel>Memory Card X>kloader>vmlinux_v11.gz then Select Init RAM disk>Memory Card X>kloader>initrd.usb2.gz. Turn Autoboot off.
25.) Type exit, and login as your new user with the login info you set. Run su to enter a root shell, then run passwd root and set a password for the root account. Make sure it is something you can remember! This version of Debian doesn't come with sudo preinstalled, you will need access to the root account until you can change that.
26.) Finally, while you are still in a root shell, run nano /etc/apt/sources.list and change the existing source to deb archive.debian.org/debian lenny main so that you can install packages via a network if needed.
28.) Now that networking is up and running, you should install sudo for improved security when performing administrative tasks. This is Debian so log in to your user, drop to a root shell and run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get install sudo (There will be several packages needing updates so be sure not to omit those commands.).
29.) You have sudo installed now, but you aren't in the sudoers file, so while in the root shell run visudo /etc/sudoers, and under ## ## User privilege specification ## root ALL=(ALL) ALL add the line yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL
The base installation is now complete. Any other customization you want to make can be done as you would with any other Linux distro. If you want to install the PS2SDK for developing PS2 specific software you can find the source here: [link] ( ) If you try to compile it on the PS2 it will run out of memory and hang, so make sure to set up the build environment on your main machine, and copy files to the Debian USB manually or via a network in order to get them on the PS2 for testing. The PS2 controller will not work as a mouse, so I recommend a USB hub for both the mouse and keyboard (if that is not an option mousekeys can be activated as usual with Alt+Shift+Num Lock). Thanks for reading, and I hope this helped someone looking to install Linux on their PS2. I had tried for months to get this working, and have very recently done so, thus decided to try and make it easier for others wanting to do the same.
I've purchased a SATA hard disk adapter from AliExpress for the PlayStation 2 fat model, and using it with a 1TB drive successfully. The PlayStation 2 can boot from the hard drive and load programs like wLaunchElf and Open PS2 Loader (OPL), which allow me to play games from ISO files located on the hard disk. The following instructions show the order in which I've set up my system. If you don't have a memory card with FreeMcBoot, you can purchase them on AliExpress. boot FreeMcBoot (from memory card). In 2021 version 1.966 is current, which can be downloaded from Woon Yung's Website.
start wLaunchElf: go to MISC folder
run Hddmanager
format disk
install FreeHdBoot to disk
copy ELF programs to disk: Open PS2 Loader (OPL)
copy custom FreeHdBoot configuration file, see below for my file.
run wLaunchElf Hddmanager again and resize the OPL partition to 1GB
copy ART and VMC directories of OPL
run WinHiip as Administrator set hard disk type to: 48bit Hdloader
copy ISO images
I've made some changes to the default FreeHdBoot configuration file.I prefer to have the Open PS2 Loader (OPL) towards the top of the list of programs,and I've installed some other applications.See the file below for my version: