I was able to get unstuck, by inserting a harddrive that had windows on it. The ps3 took the firmware upgrade to evilnat 4.9(noBD) during that process and formatted the drive in the process.
Current story, ps3(Slim - CECH - 2001A) stuck in update loop of trying to evilnat 4.9, gives error 8002F14E
Most recent previous state was that it had evilnat 4.9(no BD) and was trying to install the with BD so I could do a remarry and then it went sideways
I have also tried
I have a harddrive...