After searching the postings I see that many other people have had this problem as well. It hangs during the install. I loaded the Pro version and it goes through just fine. I am using the M7 Evox bios, I see that some ppl have had the problem with other BIOSes as well.
on my 1.5 xbox with xbit and the BIOS provided with Gentoox Pro 1.3d, the network initialisation hangs with pro and home. With the BIOS from the home.rar it works (but i want focus support )
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Being determined to get this thing loaded I expanded distro.rar, then used xboxisotool to create an xbox iso image from it, burned the image to a dvd and then used xcommander (in evox) to manually copy the files to my e:\ drive.
After that I was able to boot Gentooxx no problem and the NIC worked fine.
As a side note, I have my bios configured to automatically run e:\gentooxx.xbe on boot, so my xbox boots right to linux.
It's a really slow way to do it, but it worked.
Being a linux user for quite a long time I noticed that KDE starts WAY slower then it would on a normal 733MHz PC. Not sure why, but overall it's pretty cool.
Ive pinpointed this before to being down to the use of illegal BIOSes/ dashboards. If you use the Gentoox Loader ROM (not the XBE), you should have no problems.
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