Baikal PS4 Pro internal installation unsuccessful

allzer

I've tried to install the fedora 38 distro by DF_AUS on my ps4 pro (firmware 11.00) with the Nazky initramfs. On my first attempt I tried with the 5.4.99 baikal kernel by DF_AUS, but it didn't boot: the Arch.img file was generated but I think there were some errors during the extraction of files (yes, I renamed the psxitarch.tar.xz file to arch.tar.xz, but it didn't seem to make a difference).
Then I read on the documentation (https://github.com/Hakkuraifu/PS4Linux-Documentation that not all kernels have "HDD support", so i tried again (after deleting the Arch.img file using FTP) with the 5.4.213 kernel by noob404, hoping that it would have "HDD support" but it too didn't work.
Now I am wondering: is it a kernel problem? If it is, does a baikal kernel with "HDD support" exist?
Or maybe the problem is somewhere else?

noob404

allzer Not only kernel, not every model of PS4 supports internal HDD loading yet, I believe.

allzer

noob404 ok, I guess there isn't a way to check if my model supports HDD loading or not...
I will try a few more times with different combinations of kernel and distro, and I will post some photos of the "errors", so maybe you or other experienced people on this forum could understand what's going on...

noob404

allzer Sure.

allzer

I found out that the problem was.... me! 🙂
I didn't put the .tar.xz file in the right folder on the ps4 (user/system/boot), no wonder the installation script couldn't extract the files!
Now everything is working as intended, problem solved

noob404

allzer Good luck.

Naxil

noob404 why you not post here internal hd .img file?