HOWTO: Fully Native

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cheesyboofs
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Post by cheesyboofs »

Hi,

We need to know how it fails in order to help you move on!
Is there any way you can show us a screen dump, this should be easy to do if you are 'puttied' in.
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Post by orochi »

the system you are using has reiserfstools to format?
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Post by bluemu »

Hi...thanks for coming to help...

No errors show-
9.5 gig hard drives work like a treat but the 320 WD (as said- tried 3 in total "new 320's")

Typing w will then quit saving the config to disk.

And format,
# mkreiserfs /dev/hda2
# mkswap /dev/hda1
# swapon /dev/hda1




on the # swapon /dev/hda1 a menu shows and asks to select from a number of what appears to be hard drive types (about 15 in the list)



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Post by cheesyboofs »

Well my friend, if a 9Gb works and a 320Gb does not then it must be the size of the drive that is the problem. I have two 200Gb drives working in one xbox but I have not tried anything larger yet. You could try making the last partition smaller and see if it will then format!
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Post by bluemu »

Is there any way to overcome this or is one likly to become devolped?

I really need the bigger hard drives


Thanks


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Post by orochi »

Use a USB HDD and mount it where you need it. I dont think there is a size limitation when you do it that way.
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2.6

Post by roofus »

Anyone tried upgrading this full native install to 2.6 kernel?
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Problem Booting the Native System

Post by popy »

Hello. First THX for the TUT ;-)

I have tried but now when the nativ sysztem boots it hangs by:

kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00

This is my "linuxboot.cfg":

title Gentoox
kernel /boot/vmlinuz
initrd no
append init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 kbd-reset video=xboxfb:640x480,nohwcursor,hoc=13,voc=13

What wrong with it??

I need help.

PLZ

Thx popy
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Post by cheesyboofs »

The answer is in post 7 of this very thred! I'll give you a clue "root=/dev/ram0" is wrong...
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Pro v3.0

Post by popy »

Thx "cheesyboofs", i solved the problem.

Does the Tut work with v3.0 Pro also??

Thx
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Post by Snaver »

Pretty much, you have to do one or two more things.. simple really.
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Post by popy »

Have you tested it??

I have spend so much time in installing my XBOX FULL Native on my 116GB & 300GB Hdds ;-) with Pro v2.0a

Could you give me some Infos about the things i have to do, to get Pro v3.0 running, or could i update it simple!?!?!?


THX
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Post by zlasher »

I've just reinstalled my xbox to Pro 3.0 - didn't try any upgrades, just went for the complete reinstall..

Native tutorial worked great - just changed the format command to do a ext3 format instead for reiserfs.

And I'm now working on restoring user data..

Not much difference as I see it (between pro 2.0 and pro 3.0) but it's fun to reinstall :wink:

Thank you Shallax for the Gentoo distro on Xbox - and thank you Cheesyboofs for the excellent work on the native tut! (and all others who has contributed)..

Steinar T
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Gentoox Pro 4.1 native
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Post by sham »

Hi,
after long time i decided to install gentoox pro again, I want use it as a nas. Now I have a little problem, the XBox has a Samsung 120GB 5400rpm harddisk, fdisk says:
Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
61 heads, 33 sectors/track, 116489 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2013 * 512 = 1030656 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 249 250602 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 250 116489 116995560 83 Linux
But df -h says:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop/0 4.0G 3.2G 818M 80% /
df: `/newroot': No such file or directory
/dev/hda50 4.8G 4.2G 626M 88% /mnt/fatx/e
My fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> $
/dev/loop/0 / reiserfs notail $
proc /proc proc defaults $
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto$
/dev/hda51 /mnt/fatx/c fatx defaults,noauto,umask=0$
/dev/hda50 /mnt/fatx/e fatx defaults,umask=0000 $
/dev/hda55 /mnt/fatx/f fatx defaults,umask=0000 $
Where is the rest of the 120 GB?
Some solutions?

Greetings
sham
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Post by cheesyboofs »

Why the hell does your fstab look like that? If you've followed the TUT it should look like so;
# cat /mnt/hda2/etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
Proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
If you wish to modify the config, then your question doesn't really relate to this tutorial.

Regards
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