James wrote:
KH <gentoo-user <at> konstantinhansen.de> writes:
the current livecd-xbox-20050914.iso.bz2
The CD is outdated. This is leading to some
problems when installing gentoo on the xbox.
Here is a link you might find interesting:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2008.0/index.xml
hth,
James
Hi, thanks for that great link.
The big issue I recall running into was not Gentoo but it was the BIOS
and booting. The install disk could only work with older XBoxes before
M$ changed the BIOS. After the BIOS change you could install but not
boot.
Note that with the early M$ BIOS I had very limited options in terms
of file system types that the hard drive could use, at least on the
root partition. I don't remember if I could make other partition types
after I was in Gentoo.
If you Google 'knecht xbox bios' you will likely run into many of the
conversations I had back in 2005 on this subject.
Hope this helps,
Mark
Hi, well, I do have an old XBox. I already changed the bios: This is
done by a combination of cromwell and raincoat flasher.
You can run any file system supported by linux. This should not be a
problem any longer.
Thanks for the google hint.
Right now I am having trouble booting my new installed system. This is
because I don't really understand the syntax from linuxboot.cfg Well
I'll search the web for this.
KH
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