Kernel Panic / while creating swapfile

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Kernel Panic / while creating swapfile

Post by bbk »

hello :cry:

i have a xbox 1.6 and flashed the gentooloader 6.05 on my chip.

ok i try to install the home edition 6.0a....

bootup with dvd-disc works well. but..

i try to do a F installation and it comes to the point to create the

swapfile there shows up a kernel panic.
i will post more of the error message later when i am back home ;-)
do i require some extra partitions i may not have?

on the F: i have about 30Gb of free space

thanks.
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Post by ShALLaX »

Unfortunately... Cromwell doesnt work very well on Xbox v1.6s without ripping the Xcodes from an MS bios. Your solution is to launch loader.xbe somehow rather than using the .bin.
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ok

Post by bbk »

thank you

i will try it with the loader.xbe....

but i think as well using the following howto to get cromwell patched:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.po ... devel/7568

i just hope i will get all done right.

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Post by orochi »

Why do I need it?
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The Xbox hardware is initialised at system startup based on information
stored in the Xcodes of the bios.

On the 1.6(b?) series Xboxes, Cromwell does not set up the memory timings
and other hardware initialisation sequences properly. This leads to system
instability and boot-time failures. Some symptoms of this problem post-boot
are kernel oopses and panics, and SIGSEGVs of userspace programs.

One day, hopefully, the Xcodes used on the 1.6 Xboxes will be reimplemented
in a clean-room fashion by the Xbox Linux team. However, this has not yet
been accomplished, and progress has been very slow.

Using this tool, you can build your own Cromwell bios image for your Xbox
using the Xcodes that are already stored in the Microsoft bios on your
system (and therefore, you are not infringing their copyright by obtaining
these from an illegal source).
it doesnt sound like you can grab them from 1.6(b?) anyway
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Post by ShALLaX »

They have. Just get a BIOS dump of the latest MS BIOS and insert those Xcodes. It should then work fine.
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Post by bbk »

can it be done with the following commands after i loaded gentoox with the loader.xbe?

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raincoat -r OUTPUTFILENAME will dump the bios to a file
(as long raincoat is installed.)
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Post by ShALLaX »

Should be possible, yes.
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