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by Chinny
Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:51 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Successful Home v3.2 soft-modded xbox Native G: install
Replies: 33
Views: 26631

Correct - What is happening is that you have your default in kernel partition scheme, either .06 or .67 (F takes all, or G takes past 137). Then you create an on disk partition at sector 0 (if you'd like to take a look, emerge hexedit and hexedit your hda device - you'll see directory entries). Gent...
by Chinny
Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:36 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

I don't know if I posted this in another thread, but I'm working on the source for xbpartitioner and evtool. The same patches can then be applied to whatever bios you use - depending upon whether you use evtool or xbtool for your bios hacking needs. Personally, I'm going to be hacking on the evox m8...
by Chinny
Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:33 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Successful Home v3.2 soft-modded xbox Native G: install
Replies: 33
Views: 26631

All due respect, but linux does not write the partition table to your kernel. In Bios partition schemes must be flashed or loaded via bfm - ala pbl, nkpatcher, etc.
by Chinny
Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:19 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Successful Home v3.2 soft-modded xbox Native G: install
Replies: 33
Views: 26631

The problem is that both xbpartitioner and fdisk write to the same area of the hard drive. The easiest way to solve the bug would be to grab the source for xbpartitioner and evtool/xbtool and change the sector that the bios checks for xbox parition table. Really not too hard, just a hassle. However,...
by Chinny
Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:47 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Native G install <137GB softmod (nkpatcher)
Replies: 10
Views: 13537

Good work - you gave me an idea with my problem
by Chinny
Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:52 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

I'm softmodded (via ldots tools). Basically I write the parition table and reboot (important that the xbox actually turns off and then back on). I've been running my F Drive as 270 gigs for a long time with no problem. I've alternated with having a 15gb G and having 15gb unallocated. I'm going to ex...
by Chinny
Mon Feb 07, 2005 3:27 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

if your drive is around 160 that would be good - the kernel partition tables are never overwritten, but my drive is 300gb - and I don't want a 120gb+ linux drive :) I'm going to experiment with different things until I get it working (if it's even possible), but you should be okay if you don't mind ...
by Chinny
Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:19 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

Yeah, that's the problem I'm having here. I think what is happening is that fdisk is overwriting the on disk partition - why it only effects extended partitions I don't know.

The only other option is to split the disk up - and I'm sure you don't want that. I'm working on it though
by Chinny
Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:50 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

If you are on a windows xp machine you can just fire up the included calculator (under accessories). Change the calculator to Scientific mode. Select the HEX option. Punch in the hex code. Select DEC and it will convert it for you automatically. After that you can add 2 to the readout if you want to...
by Chinny
Thu Feb 03, 2005 12:50 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: LiveTV with Hauppauge Nova USB?
Replies: 6
Views: 15090

Did anyone ever get the Nova working?
by Chinny
Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:06 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

If you have a 300g drive, c e x y z = 10, f = 275, g = 15. When you perform the install your g drive will be destroyed and your xbox will think f = 290 now (you will get data corruption if you write past 275 since you are sharing that last 15g with your linux distro). The best thing is if you have n...
by Chinny
Thu Feb 03, 2005 5:06 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

No, you do not want a G partition. 1) Backup your F drive 2) Setup your bios so that F takes the rest of the Drive 3) Use xbparitioner to make your F Drive 15g smaller - format your F or you will not have access to all of the space. Also note: changing the partition size will make your fat table mov...
by Chinny
Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Successful Home v3.2 soft-modded xbox Native G: install
Replies: 33
Views: 26631

Your fatx header probably got zero'd out. You'll have to hex edit your hard drive to get your f drive back. (1) Emerge a hexeditor (2) dd if=/dev/hda50 of=/headerdata bs=512 count=1 (3) hexedit /headerdata (4) change the volume id (it should be the second 4 bits) to something else, I changed mine fr...
by Chinny
Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:40 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Is it possible to get all that installed on G partition ?
Replies: 37
Views: 56643

I had tons of trouble repairing my partition table after installing MCE. Make sure you are installing to unpartitioned space. If you install to space also occupied by your f drive (say the end of your partition) you will get data corruption eventually. If you install to space that you partitioned to...
by Chinny
Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:05 am
Forum: Q & A
Topic: MCE Help
Replies: 11
Views: 19179

FIXED IT You must define you partition table (through xbparitioner) to exactly the same way it was before you installed MCE. Now, the problem I had was b/c of the fact that I formatted my F partition with 32k clusters to prevent data corruption. There is no way to define that through xbpartitioner, ...