Ps3 Kboot = wrong

[Gegenki]

Tried to update the Kernel on yellow dog linux as per instructions to get wifi working.
Upon rebooting I was met with a
/init: /etc/kboot.conf: 10: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string

It repeats right down the page forever, meaning I can't even reinstall YDL.
I already tried replacing the otheros stuff from the xmb side.
I'm thinking I need to wipe my hard drive but I left my MP3 at school and I won't get it back until monday. Its the only thing big enough to back up my hard drive.

The only thing I can do is press cotrol alt delete to shut it down.
Im guessing that my best option would be a key combination to give me back control if such a thing exists

[Garfunkel]

hmm... i think you are right, it appears to be your only option. as long as you back it up.

[Gegenki]

It's all good. I got my mp3 back. Coincidentally the person with it called me and said they were in my area about 2 hours after I posted this.
Backed everything up.
Reinstalled YDL
Updated the Kernel & got Wifi working
Started messing with programming. Trying to program SPE's (talk about running before you can walk).
Been teaching myself programming for the last 2 hours. I was so wrapped in it, only stopped because my sister wanted the keyboard and mouse back. In fact I just discovered that I'm hungry

[Garfunkel]

hahahahah

is SPE programming hard? what sort of quirks do you need to do to achieve it?

[Gegenki]

suprisingly enough its actually quite simple - to begin with at least. You write a program for the PPU and you write one for the SPE's. You send data to the SPE's via DMA. Its actually very short. I started by making a program that simply multiplys random numbers to make 50,000 equations. That took 29 seconds. The next step was to get it running on 1 SPE. I have a subroutine which makes up 20,000 random numbers ( I dont even know if the SPE will take that much data, I'll have check) . These are then sent to the SPE. It multiplies them and reports when its done (uselessly giving back the answer of the last equation). I spent hours on it only to get a compiler error at the very last moment but I believe I have found a way around it on the IBM site and I'll hopefully be working on it tomorrow.