Answering my own question with a partition answer, grub installs fine but does not boot using an ext2 boot partition.
I am told online that the EvolutionX BIOS only supports somethign called FATX so I'll have to learn about how to format using that file system type. Cheers, Mark On 5/7/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > As a few folks probably know I'm playing with Gentoo on some XBox > hardware. My interest is in XBox as a standard PC - not a gaming > platform. I am using Gentoo-XBox but I have a more global question and > am looking for a specific answer about boot loaders. Thanks in > advance. > > The specific question: Will grub work on all X86 machines (and > non-X86 for that matter) or is grub limited to some specific set of > hardware devices? > > In my case I have an XBox with a mod chip installed. This mod chip > allows me to completely bypass the M$ BIOS and boot a different BIOS > installed in the mod chip. Effectively the machine has two completely > separate BIOS's installed and depending on which front panel switch > you push at boot time (either the power for M$ or the disk eject for > mod chip) you boot with either the M$ BIOS or the mod chip BIOS. > > The mod chip BIOS does not depend on any files or information on > the M$ XBox disk partitions. I have removed the XBox disk, set it > completely aside for safe keeping and then installed Gentoo-XBox on a > new drive. Booting from the mod chip BIOS the machine finds any > bootable DVD I've tried so far, including both the standard Gentoo > disc as well as the Gentoo-XBox and GentooX and WinXP discs. I used > the Gentoo-XBox DVD and the installation has gone completely normally. > Great so far. > > However, and this is important. from earlier tests I know that > Cromwell does NOT work on this revision of the XBox. I would like to > install and use grub in an absolutely normal way for a PC. > > Will it work? > > If I try it and it doesn't work can I actually remove grub and go > some other direction (Cromwell update) later? > > The basic install on this machine is done and I'm at the install > your boot loader step. I'll hang tight and see what the verdict is. > > Thanks in advance, > Mark > -- [email protected] mailing list
