folx,
i'm really stuck here and have tried a bunch of stuff and researched a bunch of ideas and am coming up emtpy.
i have a friendtech pre-modded dream-x system (which i'm starting to think is the problem)
i tried to install friendtech MCE, which worked up through the gentoox install part and then didn't.
i then ran the gentoox rescue cd and used it to install the gentoox loader.
and now i can't do anything else.
the gentoox loader starts, it has three icons. the rightmost icon (install stardust) is selected. i cannot select any of the other icons as far as i can tell. when i put in a stardust cd (burned from the gentoox home distro) it fails mounting /dev and claims there is no init.
i can no longer boot the rescue cd because my only two boot options are the microsoft dashboard or the gentoox loader, which only loads stardust.
is it a bad stardust cd? i'll burn another.
is there a different stardust cd i should try?
is the hardware crap? should i return it?
how can i get beyond this?
thanks,
todd
stuck and rescue won't run
seems like bad hw
ok, i got the pro install to boot, once, but nothing since then.
the rescue boots with a new error almost every time. sometimes it just hangs before 'startting stardust'. sometimes it clears the screen and gives kernel erros like: error <6> reinitializing init or error <6> mounting devfs, no init.
i tried reburning with speed at 1x and this seems to make no difference.
is this related to the fact that friendtech ship with a crappy modchip? i don't know much about this xbox stuff--i'm linux sysadmin, though. should i just return the box and get a different premodded box from another vendor. i really just want to run MCE so that i can play movies and music off the lan. (and check imdb or email ocassionally)
thanks for all your work,
todd
the rescue boots with a new error almost every time. sometimes it just hangs before 'startting stardust'. sometimes it clears the screen and gives kernel erros like: error <6> reinitializing init or error <6> mounting devfs, no init.
i tried reburning with speed at 1x and this seems to make no difference.
is this related to the fact that friendtech ship with a crappy modchip? i don't know much about this xbox stuff--i'm linux sysadmin, though. should i just return the box and get a different premodded box from another vendor. i really just want to run MCE so that i can play movies and music off the lan. (and check imdb or email ocassionally)
thanks for all your work,
todd