Hi!
I am working on an adaption of 9.1 RC2 for the Xbox. I am currently
working on the installation system. I am using an Xbox-patched version
of the 2.4.21-0.11mdkBOOT kernel and I'm trying to get the installation
X server running.
I did this before in Mandrake 9.0 and it worked quite well.
Hi there!
1. Great work everyone.
2. The 'NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC' (a PCMCIA WLAN card) is
orinoco_cs.o compatible, but it doesn't get detected by default neither
by Mandrake 9.1 beta 3 nor by older versions. This can be easily fixed
by adding these lines to /etc/pcmcia/config:
card
On Saturday, Oct 12, 2002, at 11:46 Europe/Berlin, Pixel wrote:
I strongly suspect that it's the color depth. The installer X server
uses 16
bit framebuffer, right? At the moment, the Xbox framebuffer only
supports 32
bit. Can anyone please tell me what exactly this installer X server
is
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 10:58 Europe/Berlin, François Pons wrote:
3) Different boot method
The Xbox needs the boot CD to be in UDF format (that's easy with
mkisofs -udf)
and the bootloader called default.xbe in the root directory of the
CD. This
bootloader has been developed by the
Booting from HD works like this:
If there is no bootable media in the Xbox DVD drive, it starts the
file
xboxdash.xbe from the fourth partition on the hard disk, which is a
FATX
filesystem. We could make Mandrake mount this partition as /boot, as
it
contains the kernel and the initrd;
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 12:31 Europe/Berlin, Guillaume Cottenceau
wrote:
I'd like to know if there are real chances that we could boot off
an Installation CD or an hard drive containing Linux -without- a
modded chip, in the future?
1) If MS cryptographically signs our bootloader.
2) If
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 12:29 Europe/Berlin, Warly wrote:
How is the boot kernel stored on the Installation CD when booting from
SYSLINUX? Our default.xbe bootloader requires the kernel and the
initrd to be files in the UDF file system, it would be cool if they
didn't have to be
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 10:42 Europe/Berlin, Warly wrote:
Adding UDF support does not bring any trouble, but regarding the boot
method, does that mean that the Xbox just ignore el torito and
syslinux boot option, and that just putting the default.xbe file
on the CD root is enought, or do we
On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 04:46 Europe/Berlin, Levi Ramsey wrote:
On Thu Oct 10 17:46 -0700, jaqui wrote:
so this would be an option for people with xboxes? to run linux on an
off the shelf xbox?
You have to use a modchip to allow the XBox to run code that's not
signed by MS.
does this
hmm, could probably hardware patch the cell phone chat keyboard, or
better yet, a full sized ps2 keyboard into the xbox as well to add
that functionality. ( building and marketing an adapter to convert the
keyboard to xbox control interface )
The Xbox has USB connectivity, just with different
Originally, we had an additional partitioning module in the kernel
for Xbox
partitioning. Now our code makes it possible to use both partitioning
schemes in
parallel: The PC partition table is read first, and the Xbox
partitions (which
may of course overlap) will be added after the PC
Hi!
I patched the boot kernel to support the Xbox, and I can run stage 1
already, with keyboard support.
Stage 2 also loads correctly, but the X server doesn't start. I don't
remember the correct error, but it was something like invalid
settings.
I strongly suspect that it's the color depth.
Hi!
I am Michael Steil from the Xbox Linux Project. I have had a
conversation with Gael and Jacques from Mandrake and I was told that
they don't officially support Xbox Linux, but they support it
non-officially. Jacques suggested to discuss about this on this mailing
list.
As you might
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