[Xbox-linux-user] Re: Cromwell install woes...

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David Pye wrote:
>>I have a fairly new xbox (with the v1.2 board) bought quite recently.
>>I  did the mechinstaller hack and it seemed as though things worked OK
>>until I installed Xebian.  After I did that, the dashboard would not
>>(and still doesn't) run.
> 
> 
> The main reason I've seen this happen is for people choosing Option 2
> (Install to free space) on 8gb drives - note, this option is ONLY  for
> people with drives 10GB or greater. It upsets the dash greatly otherwise.
> 
If I can mount the drive on another machine with the special "fatx" 
kernel, how does a person go about getting rid of the Xebian so as to 
make the dashboard happy again?  (It seems a shame to go do all this 
just so I can run the stupid thing once more in order to get at the box 
and zap Cromwell into the BIOS, but if that's what it takes, I'm up for it.)

Has someone got that kernel laying around by any chance?

>>So I can't get to the dashboard to re-transfer over the savegames.
>>
>>However, at this point I could still run emergency linux, and I could
>>get xebian running off CD.
>>
>>More recently, I opened the box and soldered together the two sets of
>>leads that need to be soldered.  I think they are, anyway -- I am by no
>> means a soldering whiz!  Anyway, now when I try to run the emergency
>>linux, mechassault just kind of stutters the music it's playing but
>>never runs linux.
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> 
> Strange - a bit of an odd problem - not seen quite these symptoms.
> 
One more minor detail that may mean nothing -- it used to be that as 
soon as I pressed "A" on the pad to select "Emergency Linux", it would 
run, but now it presents me with a blank sub-option, which if I then 
press A on that, makes the mechassault kind of spaz out.
> 
>>I am at an impasse.  Without getting linux running, I can't run
>>raincoat  to flash the bios with Cromwell, and I can't get back to the
>>dashboard  to do anything there.
>>
>>Suggestions?
> 
> 
> Recommended one : modchip, at least TEMPORARILY. It would allow you to
> boot a linux cd, and thereby attempt to repair the dash, then allowing you
> to remove the chip, retransfer the savegames etc.
> You can buy solderless modchips, thus making them easier to fit/remove.
> 
I'd rather try to patch up the hard drive than go buy another widget for 
this project.  (The whole idea of the xbox was that it could be a nice, 
quite, CHEAP front end for my PVR system.)  That said, if I gotta buy a 
modchip, I gotta.

Final question:  Based on the fact that mechassault does in fact start 
up, etc., is it fair for me to assume that I have *not* borked the xbox 
mobo with my fantastic soldering skills?
>>Thanks.
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> David
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