Re: [Xbox-linux-user] Diskless Xbox

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I just wanted to point out a fast solution to this; if you're truly
netbooting and using a nfs root, you don't need a hd or cdrom/dvdrom.
So, cromwell will load and see that you have no cdrom/dvdrom and no hd,
so etherboot will be selected (it's the only option left)
-Patrick

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 21:59 +1300, Jason Harris wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Im netbooting my xbox and running it as a mythtv frontend.
> 
> I would really like to know how to recompile cromwell with etherboot as the 
> default boot method, instead of having to select etherboot everytime I boot 
> the xbox.
> 
> If you know how this can be done, it would be greatly appreciated as I have 
> been unsuccessful in finding any information on how to do so.
> 
> Jason
> 
> On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:55, Ben Dash wrote:
> > I didn't completely follow the gentoo diskless howto
> > when making my xbox diskless.  I have done diskless
> > that way in the past, however, that was when the
> > server and the client were both the same architecture.
> >  Gentoo is all about choice and so I went off the
> > beaten path and did it the way that I thought would
> > work the best for me.
> >
> > Since the xbox and the server were quite different,
> > PIII versus Athlon Thunderbird (which doesn't support
> > PIII instructions), I compiled everything natively on
> > the xbox.  The trick was to boot from the Gentoo xbox
> > liveDVD and mount an nfs share as /mnt/gentoo and then
> > subsequently chroot-ing into that directory to build
> > the system.  I got a 64MB RAM upgrade to 128MB and
> > without that you really can't run mythtv.
> >
> > I ran into a solid brick wall when using the 2.4
> > kernel.  I was hesitating going to 2.6 because I'd
> > heard that 2.6 had a broken fatx, however, it seems to
> > work fine for my needs; a simple swap partition.  I
> > believe that I ran into a problem with LIRC in 2.4 but
> > once I moved to 2.6 eveything went smoothly.
> >
> > The only outstanding issue is that my wife complains
> > that it takes too long to boot.  There are a couple of
> > solutions:
> >
> > 1) Leave it turned on
> > 2) Set up suspend2 to suspend to a file
> >
> > So far I'm using option 1 but my power supply seems to
> > be disintegrating.  If I leave the xbox off for a
> > couple of days I have to push the power butting about
> > 20 times before it will stay powered on.
> >
> > Oh - also I need to recompile Cromwell and set
> > etherboot to be the default boot method, but that's
> > pretty minor as I'm using option 1 and I rarely reboot
> > anyway.
> >
> > Good luck with it!
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > --- sliverstorm <th...@gm...> wrote:
> > > Well, I haven't started just yet (the modchip got
> > > messed up and I spent
> > > today fixing it AGAIN) but I wanna thank you a lot
> > > in advance.  This
> > > might not be as hard as I thought it would be, cause
> > > I have some docs :)
> > > networking is my real weakpoint.
> > > -Patrick
> > >
> > > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 05:08 -0800, Ben Dash wrote:
> > > > --- Eric Cooper wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 05:30:53PM -0800,
> > > > >
> > > > > sliverstorm wrote:
> > > > > > Hello, I've been dreaming of netbooting my
> > >
> > > xbox
> > >
> > > > > and running it off a nfs
> > > > >
> > > > > > share or something of the like... but
> > > > >
> > > > > unfortunatly, while I have plenty
> > > > >
> > > > > > of linux knowledge, I fall short when it comes
> > >
> > > to
> > >
> > > > > networking.  I've been
> > > > >
> > > > > > looking for tutorials and the like, but no
> > >
> > > matter
> > >
> > > > > the case there will
> > > > >
> > > > > > probably be special considerations for the
> > >
> > > xbox...
> > >
> > > > > for example, how do I
> > > > >
> > > > > > build the custom etherboot kernels?
> > > > >
> > > > > These should get you started:
> > >
> > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/
> > >
> > > > >     http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html
> > > >
> > > > My XBox is netbooted.  I run Gentoo and they have
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > lot of information about how to set it up here:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml
> > > >
> > > > Also, if you search the gentoo forums for my id
> > > > "ben_dash" you'll find a chronicle of my week long
> > > > ordeal to get the machine up and running.  It was
> > >
> > > a
> > >
> > > > bumpy road but I learned a huge amount :-)
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