HOWTO: Fully Native
This is great guys..
After feeling the xbox was getting slower and slower (I'm using it as a Apache/PHP5 server with MySQL) I decided to go native..
Everything worked - only comment I have is - I had to flash the bios with the loader.bin that is included in the startust.iso image - it didn't work when I used the loader from loader 6.04.. (Never got the native choice in the boot menue - only cd/web/net options)
Is there any difference between the two?
Zlasher
After feeling the xbox was getting slower and slower (I'm using it as a Apache/PHP5 server with MySQL) I decided to go native..
Everything worked - only comment I have is - I had to flash the bios with the loader.bin that is included in the startust.iso image - it didn't work when I used the loader from loader 6.04.. (Never got the native choice in the boot menue - only cd/web/net options)
Is there any difference between the two?
Zlasher
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Yes chap, this is covered by Hammy's post, six posts before yours. I'll also refer 'you' to viewtopic.php?t=3356
Shallax, any thoughts yet on what we can do to our Native installs to get the v6 loaders to see them, or would this have to be fixed in the loader?
Shallax, any thoughts yet on what we can do to our Native installs to get the v6 loaders to see them, or would this have to be fixed in the loader?
Go fully native, it's the destiny of all Mk1 Xboxes
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
The Native guide is very good - but i suggest a couple of additions..
1)
adding timezone before checking date (to get magic to work)
some users may adjust their clocks to localtime - while the system still expect to be GMT - which will break sync.
2)
Making sure make.profile is symlinked to the correct kernel before syncing (this avoids the 88% emerge sync fault in my experience)
it defaults to ../x86/2005.0/2.4 which does not exist.. (and kernel 2.6 not yet fully supported for gentoox) this symlink will ensure we stay with the 2.4 kernel.
Anyone willing to test out my suggested additions?
Steinar T
1)
adding timezone before checking date (to get magic to work)
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xbox etc # cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Oslo /etc/localtime
xbox etc #
2)
Making sure make.profile is symlinked to the correct kernel before syncing (this avoids the 88% emerge sync fault in my experience)
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xbox etc # ln -sf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/no-nptl/2.4 /etc/make.profile
xbox etc #
Anyone willing to test out my suggested additions?
Steinar T
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Your opinion / additions are greatly appreciated although I would like a second opinion before adding them to the tutorial, I can not verify myself at present.
Go fully native, it's the destiny of all Mk1 Xboxes
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
OMFG!
I wasn`t to chuffed at the idea of using gentoox pro as I`ve been using home v4 for ages and really like it. so I tried following this tut substituting home for pro & it works!
for the time being I`m happy to make use of two stock 10GB
hdd`s as they were free, my xbox was free (came with a broken dvd drive ) and gentoox is free!
lioke it alot!
bLiGhTy.
I wasn`t to chuffed at the idea of using gentoox pro as I`ve been using home v4 for ages and really like it. so I tried following this tut substituting home for pro & it works!
for the time being I`m happy to make use of two stock 10GB
hdd`s as they were free, my xbox was free (came with a broken dvd drive ) and gentoox is free!
lioke it alot!
bLiGhTy.
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Your right, above 2Gb support was broke pre Resctoox 2.2, and is possible it has got broke again, I’ll ask his nibs!
Go fully native, it's the destiny of all Mk1 Xboxes
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one ...
sorry, It must still work, I just found a n64 emu from the hdd`s previous life was still in the mnt/e.cheesyboofs wrote:Your right, above 2Gb support was broke pre Resctoox 2.2, and is possible it has got broke again, I’ll ask his nibs!
when i removed it it all went spiffing. (still not sure how it was still there cos i thought i`d formatted the disk & re partitioned it???
still I`m as happy as a dog with four lamposts right now.
bLiGhTy.
2x xbox v1.0 gentoox home native
2x stock 10GB`s (both built for free )
Thanks 2 cheesyboofs, Steinar T & of course ShALLaX.
Falcon; jtag, xbr, 160gb hdd
2x stock 10GB`s (both built for free )
Thanks 2 cheesyboofs, Steinar T & of course ShALLaX.
Falcon; jtag, xbr, 160gb hdd
native hard drive formating
Hi all,
I am totally a newbie at this, and perhaps this is a silly question or I am doing something wrong which is obvious, could you please help me with :
My HDD preps and boots from Ram and Linux but does not allow format of drives in the sequance shown in the instructions.
These commands are not functioning for me....I have tried 3 successive attempts on 3 different HDs (Western digital 320gb) and these commands to format fail.
Typing w will then quit saving the config to disk.
And format,
# mkreiserfs /dev/hda2
# mkswap /dev/hda1
# swapon /dev/hda1
Then mount the newly formatted drive;
# mkdir /mnt/hda2 && mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
The config save to the HD (w) works fine but the format commands do not work.
Please Help
thank you
bluemu
I am totally a newbie at this, and perhaps this is a silly question or I am doing something wrong which is obvious, could you please help me with :
My HDD preps and boots from Ram and Linux but does not allow format of drives in the sequance shown in the instructions.
These commands are not functioning for me....I have tried 3 successive attempts on 3 different HDs (Western digital 320gb) and these commands to format fail.
Typing w will then quit saving the config to disk.
And format,
# mkreiserfs /dev/hda2
# mkswap /dev/hda1
# swapon /dev/hda1
Then mount the newly formatted drive;
# mkdir /mnt/hda2 && mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2
The config save to the HD (w) works fine but the format commands do not work.
Please Help
thank you
bluemu