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On Jan 31, 2008 3:21 AM, KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> the current livecd-xbox-20050914.iso.bz2 |
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> <http://ftp.udc.es/gentoo/experimental/x86/xbox/livecd/livecd-xbox-20050914.iso.bz2> |
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> is from 01-Oct-2005 05:40. The CD is outdated. This is leading to some |
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> problems when installing gentoo on the xbox. |
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> I was wandering if anybody knows where to find a documentation how the |
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> last livecd for the xbox was build and how the upcoming livecd for x86 |
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> will be build. Then it might not be that hard to build a new livecd for |
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> the xbox. |
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> The problems from the current livecd - as far as I know them - |
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> 1. The livecd will not boot when cromwell 2.40 bios is installed. |
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> 2. One cannot use a current stage3 tarball. When chrooting this will |
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> lead to a FATAL - Kernel to old |
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> 3. The 2006.0 tarball one can use to chroot is still using gcc 3.xxx. |
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> This is resulting in heavy upgrading work |
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> 4. You are running in the small pam shadow problem. |
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I built one of these a couple of years ago. It's probably covered with |
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dust somewhere in my garage. ;-) |
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The big issue I recall running into was not Gentoo but it was the BIOS |
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and booting. The install disk could only work with older XBoxes before |
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M$ changed the BIOS. After the BIOS change you could install but not |
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boot. |
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There was an open source BIOS project called Cromwell but 2 years ago |
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I talked to the developer and he wasn't active at that time. He might |
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be now. I don't know. |
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There are multitudes of hacked BIOS replacements that give XBoxes lots |
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of extra capabilities. They are, however, somewhat shady in terms of |
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the legality. Go there as you see fit. |
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Note that with the early M$ BIOS I had very limited options in terms |
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of file system types that the hard drive could use, at least on the |
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root partition. I don't remember if I could make other partition types |
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after I was in Gentoo. |
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If I was going to try this again I'd first look for a Knoppix type |
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boot CD solution to test that the machine can work. If it could I'd |
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probably stick with that before I went to all the trouble of hacking |
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the hard drive and trying to make the XBox a computer. |
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If you Google 'knecht xbox bios' you will likely run into many of the |
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conversations I had back in 2005 on this subject. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Mark |
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