On 5/5/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am sure there must be xbox-linux mailing lists of forums out there > somewhere...
There are. They are mostly full of confused people with many different agendas. It's very hard to weed out the responses that make sense. 99% of the people inhabiting those lists are gamers with completely different ideas about what to do with the hardware. As a Linux user I want to use the machine as as a MythTV frontend. I want it to be as solid as my Gentoo desktop and laptop machines. I'm not interested in machines with software hacks that require specific CDs to install, etc. > > However I don't know why you would need to put a different bios in. > The reason is that you cannot install Linux without doing so. An XBox will not boot from CD/DVD without a modified BIOS. I currently have a modified machien that has two BIOS's in it: a) Unmodified M$ to run as an XBox b) A gamer's BIOS that allows me to boot from DVD and potentially start a Gentoo install. I could probably get by just using b) but there is an Open Source BIOS one called Cromwell. I'd like to use it as I don't really know the pedigree of the hacked gamer's BIOS. However I'm not clear if it matters whether I use b) or Cromwell. What I need is: 1) A BIOS that will allow me to do the install. Probably either will work. 2) A BIOS that will reliably boot from disk once the install is complete. Hopefully both. 3) A BIOS that meets the needs of the kernel once the kernel is up and running, if the kernel actually uses the BIOS at all, hence this thread. Thanks! - Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
