Help please installing MCE
Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:01 pm
OK can any of you clued up people help me out please?
I have put a new 20G drive in the box, it's got a cheapmod that is flashable and ok (got two actually for recovery sakes!), ok booting the MCE (Beta4) disk and off it goes, it flashes the bios fine and then asks for the Gentoox CD, ok now the problems start, no matter what gentoox cd I put in (I've d/l home and pro) it errors with,
"Decompressing... Extracting from /mnt/temp/distro.rar Extracting rootfs 0% Write error in the file rootfs [R]etry, [A]bort "
I can power off and it carries on with the MCE but if I select GentooX from the bios menu it falls over (of course no gentoox is installed). I think I need gentoox on there to set up search paths to my pc etc. I have tested the hard drive in my pc, full format-no bad sectors. I have used many MANY different media. I have tried both Home and Pro Gentoox. All exactly the same thing.
I've also tried installing Gentoox on it's own (with a re-flashed bios) and it fails with,
"An error occurred, halting [Error mounting temp partition] Sending SIGKILL to all processes The system is halted. Press Reset or turn off power flushing ide devices: hda hdb System halted."
So help please any idea on what is going on (I do have a usb keyboard and mouse all working on the xbox btw).
Thank you in advance
I have put a new 20G drive in the box, it's got a cheapmod that is flashable and ok (got two actually for recovery sakes!), ok booting the MCE (Beta4) disk and off it goes, it flashes the bios fine and then asks for the Gentoox CD, ok now the problems start, no matter what gentoox cd I put in (I've d/l home and pro) it errors with,
"Decompressing... Extracting from /mnt/temp/distro.rar Extracting rootfs 0% Write error in the file rootfs [R]etry, [A]bort "
I can power off and it carries on with the MCE but if I select GentooX from the bios menu it falls over (of course no gentoox is installed). I think I need gentoox on there to set up search paths to my pc etc. I have tested the hard drive in my pc, full format-no bad sectors. I have used many MANY different media. I have tried both Home and Pro Gentoox. All exactly the same thing.
I've also tried installing Gentoox on it's own (with a re-flashed bios) and it fails with,
"An error occurred, halting [Error mounting temp partition] Sending SIGKILL to all processes The system is halted. Press Reset or turn off power flushing ide devices: hda hdb System halted."
So help please any idea on what is going on (I do have a usb keyboard and mouse all working on the xbox btw).
Thank you in advance