Hi sorry if the questions i ask have an obvious answer, i have been trying to find the information i need!
Anyway, i have an xbox which has an Xecuter 2.6 mod chip in it, i have flashed the X2 5035 bios on the first bank but i can't get it to load as my hard drive is locked, i stupidly overwrote the whole drive when i had linux running using the softmod process. so i can't unlock it? is the hard drive useless now? i am not planning to run any games, i want a hard drive that i can use for linux.
I also wanted to put the gentoox bios on the other bank of the mod chip, but it won't flash, well it flashes but when u run the xbox afterwards it runs flashbios again, i guess this is because the bios needs to be 512K not 256K as the loader is, i have seen it mentioned that u can resize the bios, how can this be done?
sorry if i have not given any useful information, about my prob, really would like some advice. Many thanks
Problems with Using Gentoox loader and harddrive issues
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Flash your bios with Cromwell/GentooX and in the advanced you should be able to unlock your HDD.
Simple way to resize the bios...
Linux:
256K -> 512K
512k -> 1024k (1MB)
Windows:
Open a command prompt:
256K -> 512K
512k -> 1024k (1MB)
Simple way to resize the bios...
Linux:
256K -> 512K
Code: Select all
cat 256kbios.bin > 512kbios.bin
cat 256kbios.bin >> 512kbios.bin
Code: Select all
cat 512kbios.bin > 1024kbios.bin
cat 512kbios.bin >> 1024kbios.bin
Open a command prompt:
256K -> 512K
Code: Select all
type 256kbios.bin > 512kbios.bin
type 256kbios.bin >> 512kbios.bin
Code: Select all
type 512kbios.bin > 1024kbios.bin
type 512kbios.bin >> 1024kbios.bin