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wacco
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Newbie need help to flash chip from Gentoox Pro.

Post by wacco »

Unfortunately a mate downloaded the pro version of Gentoox.
I wanted the home edition, but anyways, I need help to flash my chip from the Linux bios to my old bios who's located in C:\bios and is named 4979.bin
(256k is the size)...

So I need step by step help here..
I do not have a keyboard, so I'm using the Xpad.
I know that you can flash the chip with some commands.

Could anyone tell me how to do this step-by-step, because I really am a newbie to Linux.
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Post by nobspangle »

read the tutorial
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Post by wacco »

login with su - as root does not work...
So I login as Root and password as usual, and use the raincoat -p /mnt/c/bios/4979.bin then it says that it cant open file!
It detects modchip, and the bios size, but it cant open the bios...
Same thing when I use efrmt.bin who's evoXm7 ....

Do I have to use the mkdir /mnt/c mount etc. command to make it work?
And is logging in with root ok?
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Post by nobspangle »

when it says to login as root with su - it means when you are logged in as someuser not root type su - to switch to root. Logging straight in as root is fine.
Before you can find the bios you will have to mount the C drive as it is not mounted by default.

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mkdir /mnt/c
mount -t fatx /dev/hda51 /mnt/c
then make sure the file exists

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ls /mnt/fatx/c/bios
should give something like

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bios.bin
then you should be able to run your raincoat command
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wacco
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Post by wacco »

Thnak you very much.
I think this will make all my problems go away :) .

Sorry about being a newbie on Linux and everything.
I'm not bad or n00b at all when it comes to .xbe things.

Thank you again.
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Post by wacco »

When I type the first command it says "Invalid option --t".
What should I do?
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Post by wacco »

Should I remove -t and some more or not?
And on the


mkdir /mnt/c
mount -t fatx etc. should there be a space between "c" and "mount"?

when I do the command without the -T it says cant create folder, and that file exists etc..

I would be glad if someone could tell me JUST EXACTLY very newbie friendly how to flash bios the easiest way in pro.
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Post by nobspangle »

the first command creates a directory in /mnt called c once you have run that you don't need to do it again it's done if you do

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ls /mnt
you will see fatx cdrom and your new c
the second command mounts the C drive in that directory (or in unix terms at that mount point)
"mount" is the mount command
"-t fatx" tells the system it is a fatx partition (t stands for type like filetype) make sure you have -t not --t or -T
"/dev/hda51" is the name of the partition (device/hard disk A partition 51)
"/mnt/c" is the name of the mount point
each part of the command should be typed exactly as I have written it with a space between the mount must go at the beginning and the device and mount point must be in the order device,mountpoint the -t fatx can go anywhere after the mount e.g.

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mount -t fatx /dev/hda51 /mnt/c
raincoat -p /mnt/c/bios/4979.bin
Oh look I've justed wasted my time pointlessly repeating myself and reiterating exactly what was in the tutorial.

you've asked questions like
Do I have to use the mkdir /mnt/c mount etc. command to make it work?
I ask, would it be in the tutorial if you didn't?

Read it properly and don't ask any more stupid questions
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Post by DarkManX4lf »

how did you even get pro to work, i couldnt get it to work for me for some reason, i install run magic and get errors that xfcepatch1 is not available or its a invalid selection :(
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Post by wacco »

Thanks, almost there...
It detects my chip, SSt something..

But when I type the command to flash it says un-able to open file or something like that.
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Post by wacco »

Looks like I have moved the bios to another diretory..
I'm getting home next week, so that's nice.

Is there possible to transfer files with a file manager on home?
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Post by ShALLaX »

Like i said, dont copy and paste the commands, its a single -t, not --t :\ Why did you choose to use the pro edition when you obviously arent good enough to use it?
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Post by wacco »

It was a mistake.
I wont bother you more now.
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