"Service Xbox" Errors...

[b8zs]

My friend sold me his xbox. I know nothing about modchips but he told me he flashed his with cromwell cause I told him I wanted to put linux on it. So If i wanted to play xbox games I could just hit the power button for a sec and if I wanted to boot to cromwell i would hold the power button for 2 secs.

I burned home 4.0 and booted off it, and the installation went fine. Then I ran magic right after home 5.0 was released,and it compiled some things that broke some functionality i needed. I then decided to just upgrade to home 5.0, instead of fixing all the broken apps.

I booted off the home 5.0 CD and it went through the install script. I selected the "F" parition as an installation destination, and the script said not enough room on F. I had thought it would just wipe it, but it didnt. So i rebooted it and this time opted to "initialise" my hardrive. I thought this would just delete all non-vital partitions. After this, the option to install on F disappeared and only E and Native were left. I tried E and it said not enough room, so finally I just choose native and it chugged away.

Unfortunatly now I cant boot into Microsofsts bios, because it says "You need to service your xbox"

Am I completely hosed or is there something I can do?

thanks for your help,

b8zs

[ShALLaX]

Depends on the BIOS its booting. If you cant boot from a CD at all, you're pretty much screwed (have you tried holding the power button down as suggested by your friend?)... was it a soft mod? Worst comes to worst, you can always put a modchip in and externally flash it with Gentoox Loader.

Also:

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   echo "     Would you like to initialise your hard drive?  This will format"
   echo "     all partitions to FatX, you will lose all of your data.  Only use"
   echo "     this if your Xbox hard drive has become corrupt or you are upgrading"
   echo "     your hard drive."

...

   if [ $prepare = "yes" ]; then
      echo ""
      echo "       Are you sure?  ALL DATA WILL BE TOTALLY LOST ON YOUR HARD DRIVE."
      echo ""
      echo "       sure"
      echo "       cancel"
      echo ""
      echo -n "       Answer: "

I think that warning was pretty sufficient!

[b8zs]

well I can still boot into linux(thankfully)

I should have put more thought into the warning prompt that the initialse script gave me. What would have been a better way to just delete the F partition, and not the entire disk? A linux live-cd?

[roofus]

All these are found in the usual places:

PC tools for the xbox hard drive
http://www.xbox-scene.com/tools/tools.p ... =harddrive

There is a way to restore your dashboard for the Xbox but you might want to go looking in the xbox-scene forums for that. I do beleive it's one (or a few) of the softmod installers that do that. With only cromwell and the normal bios installed you may want to look into gamesave exploits, unless your friend can flash another bios on there for you.

Here's the place to start on xbox-scene:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php? ... owforum=18