Internal M.2 Installation

You can use a M.2 SSD exclusively for Linux (which means you cannot use it for PS5 game storage).

• 1. Attach the M.SSD and format it on your PS5.
• 2. Boot Linux on your PS5 and run these commands to initialize your M.2:

cd ps5-linux-tools
sudo ./m2_init

• 3. Reboot via sudo reboot. If your PS5 asks you to format your M.2 again, please report this issue to us in our Discord server and provide your M.2 model and storage size.
• 4. Relaunch Linux on your PS5.
• 5. Copy the ps5-ubuntu2604.img image that you built during installation or rebuild it on your PS5. Then, install it onto your M.2:

cd ps5-linux-tools
chmod +x ./m2_install.sh
sudo ./m2_install.sh --install $PATH_TO_YOUR_IMG

Now, you can boot into Linux on your M.2 via:

cd ps5-linux-tools
chmod +x ./m2_exec.sh
sudo ./m2_exec.sh

Then follow the same instructions again as the previous section.

In order to always boot Linux from your M.2, you can edit the label at /boot/efi/cmdline.txt from root=LABEL=ubuntu2604 to root=LABEL=ubuntu2604-m2.