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by **ShALLaX** on Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:42 am

Tada, new Resctoox out with working large file support (LFS)... tried and tested myself! Sorry for the wait!

by **cheesyboofs** on Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:00 pm

Ta!

I thought I’d try this on my 1.6 Xbox that had the Gentoox loader already on it, but this wouldn’t boot off the Resctoox CD only Sparkle so I thought I’d try re-flashing a newer bios via Gentoox bios flash option, but I ended up nuking my Xecuter 2.6 mod chip. I’ve now got a programmer on order so I won’t be able to test this new version of resctoox till at least the middle of next week.

You know when you start those 10 minuet jobs and you really wish you had'nt!!!! :cry:

by **atariman486** on Thu Oct 06, 2005 6:30 am

woo hoo! thanks for this tutorial. I searched for a loooonnnng time looking for how to do a fully native install with gentoox! I used the the new resctoox CD and the LFS worked fine. I also used reiserfs for /dev/hda2 and it worked great. Now I've got apache up and running. Again thanks for the tutorial... and thanks for your great work ShALLaX.

by **ShALLaX** on Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:22 am

Excellent! Good to hear it works now

by **Bucko** on Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:53 pm

nice tutorial

by **cheesyboofs** on Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:37 am

Programmer arrived yesterday and was up and running again last night, I’m happy to also report that Restoox 2.2 is working a treat. I will update the tutorial as soon as I get a chance.
Nice one!

by **ShALLaX** on Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:32 pm

Excellent, thanks!

by **cheesyboofs** on Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:12 pm

There we go all updated, now lets never mention the 'X' word again. :wink:

by **ShALLaX** on Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:23 pm

Hehe, great job! You get the reboot request because Resctoox auto mounts your E: drive. Repartitioning while any partition is mounted means that the OS will continue using the old partition table, therefore a reboot is required (unless you unmount everything first).

by **cheesyboofs** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:57 am

New feature: XboxIR auto-repeat patch

There’s a new kernel patch which enables auto-repeat of keypresses on the Xbox remote. Run magic to update!

Will this involve downloading a new vmlinuz and there for test my/our little /boot patch?
Also I never did ask, what does initrd do? And why don’t we need it?

by **ShALLaX** on Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:01 pm

It involves a new kernel patch (i.e. recompiling).

The initrd's primary function is to mount the rootfs and pivot to it then run init.

by **teitoku** on Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:36 pm

Say WHAT?

Code: Select all: Resctoox:> ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 e drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Oct 18 22:11 hda2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 18 22:33 loopback drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 swap drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Aug 3 2003 temp Resctoox:> mount -o loop /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mnt/loopback mount: Mounting /mnt/hda2/rootfs on /mnt/loopback failed: Not a directory Resctoox:>

by **cheesyboofs** on Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:26 am

Can I just make sure you didn’t copy and paste the

Code: Select all: mkdir /mnt/loopback && mount –o loop /mnt/hda2/rootfs /mnt/loopback

command in to putty, for some reason it substitutes the ‘–o’ for ‘.o’ you must follow the tutorial word for word!

by **teitoku** on Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:34 pm

Well, I got the mounting sorted out now. I got to the bit of your tutorial where you copy over vmlinuz, create linuxboot.cfg, and re-write the contents of fstab. Done, done, and done. Flashed loader 5.11 to my chip. Boot up and see CD/DVD and Advanced. No hard drive option. What's left to do?

by **teitoku** on Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:35 pm

Oops, forgot to mark partitions as active/bootable when running cfdisk earlier. I went and ran it now, and I get this "cannot find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0)" error. Should I just wipe it clean and start over?

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