I have installed PsxitarchV3 on the internal hard drive of my PS4 Fat CUH-10XX.
I am using:

  • Kernel Aeolia 5.3.18 (BETA - Vulkan support - HDD Support - By Mircoho)
  • initramsfs.cpio.gz by Nazky
  • psxitarch.tar.gz

The problem I have is that when I turn off the console from the distro, or when I restart or switch to Blis OS, I get a Kernel Panic and the console becomes unresponsive. I have to hold the power button down, or sometimes even unplug it.
What is causing this? How can I fix it?
I tried another distro before, such as Fedora 38 by DF_AUS, and at first, everything was fine. But later, in the Cemu emulator, I had issues loading games with an infinite "Loading..." screen. Yes, I tried several versions of Cemu, different configurations, another kernel, and different games, but the result was always the same. The strange thing is that initially, after the installation and testing Cemu with the same games, it worked fine. The issues with Cemu only appeared after I restarted or turned off the console following the installation of Fedora. So, I decided to try PsxitarchV3, but I noticed this error with the kernel panic when turning off or restarting the console. I would like to know how I can fix this.

It is worth mentioning that during the installation of PsxitarchV3 on the internal hard drive, I had issues with Nazky's initramfs because it was looking for an arch.tar.xz format, while PsxitarchV3 uses arch.tar.gz. However, in a comment, I saw that to fix this and be able to install it, I had to use these commands:
""
After error we need 2 commands:
Still in rescueshell:
Code:

tar -xvf /ps4hdd/system/boot/arch.tar.gz -C /newroot –numeric-owner

and finally:
Code:

exec switch_root /newroot /newroot/sbin/init
""


Try using another kernel, maybe a 5.15. I knew about this panic on 4.x, but, didn't know some models had it even on 5.x.

    noob404 Where can I get more versions of the Aeolia kernel with support for internal hard drives? I've already tried the 2 kernels from Mircoho and codedwrench for Aeolia from github, I haven't tried the psxitarch one because it doesn't say it has vulkan support.
    Codedwrench version 5.15 gives me problems with the cemu emulator. When I try to load a game, it works fine the first time, but the second and subsequent times it stays on an infinite loading screen. Although it also started happening to me with psxitarch on kernel 5.3. I don't understand what's wrong with cemu, it deleted the shaders and config folders and it doesn't work. The only way to get it working again is to reinstall the entire distribution again. and it works the first time loading the game but after turning the console off and on and entering the cemu distro system it fails again with the infinite loading screen, could it be something about the console that is in version 9.00?

        Kobazu Then, I guess, there are atleast two options:-

        1. Work on the 5.15 kernel to add internal drive support to it.
        2. Get the source for kernel 5.3 and since the kernel panic identifies the issue at usb_hcd_pci_shutdown, you could work on it to sort the panic out.
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