Installing Xbox Gentoo manually

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justincx3
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Installing Xbox Gentoo manually

Post by justincx3 »

i have a problem mounting / on /mnt/gentoo, here's what i did..

well first i partitioned my harddrive using acronis partition expert, the partitions are:

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ReiserFS

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 21274 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

                                Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1            5197        5230      257040   82  Linux swap
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2   *        5231        5368     1043280   83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3            5369        7459    15807960   83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4            7460       16478    68183640    5  Extended
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5            7460       10234    20978968+  83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6           10235       13009    20978968+  83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7           13010       15784    20978968+  83  Linux
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8           15785       16478     5246608+  83  Linux
here are the partitions in order,
/swap
/boot
/
/usr
/home
/var
/tmp

then i put the HDD back into my xbox and started Startdust Installer. i quit the Startdust installer by hitting Ctrl+c keys,
Stardust:>
so i begin the new installation with swapon /dev/hda1 with no errors, then i have create a new Gentoo directory, mkdir /mnt/gentoo, so where it fails is when i try to mount / in /mnt/gentoo..
Stardust:> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/
mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /mnt/gentoo failed: Invalid argument
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Post by nobspangle »

you might need to specify the full path to the partition
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Orpheus
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Post by Orpheus »

did you create filesystems on the partitions before mounting them?
maybe the stardust CD has no support for the fileysystems you use?
what about trying to mount them with the "-t filesystemtype" parameter?

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cory1492
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Post by cory1492 »

stardust supports reiserfs fine....
as above, in your code, you may need to fully specify the partition - not sure about doing the partitions on a PC and switching it to the xbox, does the xbox use a standard pc location for the partition info?

from stardust run

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fdisk /dev/hda
and press 'p' (IIRC) to print the list of partitions on the disk, if it has none or shows there are errors it would be best to use fdisk to write the partition info (if the ones you applied on the pc are shown), or create them with fdisk and format them with mkreiserfs.

hope that helps some...?
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bloodgod589
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Post by bloodgod589 »

It was very easy, i made 3 partitons, swap ex2 and reiserfs via the Gentoo LiveCd

I downloaded stage 3 wich did all my long grueling compiling for me.

I then switched to the XBox make prfile which was quite simple. I emerged sync then xorg, and then gdm. I then had to install a custom alsa driver, which too me 2 days because of gentoos glitch ass driver. I got that up.
I had another problem where my usb devices didnt intialize at boot, so i put in my Kernel-2.4 file usb-ohci and it worked. Now everything works like clockwork and the compiler goes WAY FASTER then gentoox and it dosent take an hour to compile 2 things.
There is a good tutorial and it can be found here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_for_Xbox

Excellent tut. Except for the mirrors part. I had to find a diff command, it never worked. The rest was ok.
yoda@gentoo
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Post by yoda@gentoo »

and how can i create a fatX partition on my new 160 GB Harddrive for using it fo the xbox ?
is that possibel ?
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