Problems with Using Gentoox loader and harddrive issues

[tipsymonkey]

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

[tipsymonkey]

well i think i have found out how to resize the bios file, will try it now! funny how u find things when u spends ages looking just when u ask for help!

any help with the hard drive prob would be great, i guess i am gonna need a new one?

[gnif]

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

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cat 256kbios.bin > 512kbios.bin
cat 256kbios.bin >> 512kbios.bin

512k -> 1024k (1MB)

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cat 512kbios.bin > 1024kbios.bin
cat 512kbios.bin >> 1024kbios.bin

Windows:
Open a command prompt:
256K -> 512K

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type 256kbios.bin > 512kbios.bin
type 256kbios.bin >> 512kbios.bin

512k -> 1024k (1MB)

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type 512kbios.bin > 1024kbios.bin
type 512kbios.bin >> 1024kbios.bin

[kikofras]

can u xplain more accurately the flash process pleasE? im in hte same problem woth my bios.... only cromwell and i cannot run anything


many thanks


kikofrass

[ShALLaX]

cat 256k.bin 256k.bin 256k.bin 256k.bin > 1024k.bin

Much easier