On 5/7/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 May 2005, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > 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. > > I was under the impression that you only need FATX if you want to reboot > and plat XBox games?
Hi. Apparently fatx is the only file system that the mod chip BIOS will read. These BIOSes seem to be set up primarily for gamers which is not me at all. I'm trying to make use of the $149 xbox more like a network appliance (storage, MythTV, etc.) and really don't want ANY game stuff on the box if I can help it. My hope is that if I could format the boot partition as fatx I'd be part way toward makign this work, but so far I cannot find Linux tools to do this. They must be out there, or so you would think. I did find some windows stuff so possibly I can use them to get the partition on but then I still need to be able to read it when doing the Gentoo install. > > Anyway, the gentoo-xbox list is the best place to ask this stuff. > Yeah, I did but haven't seen any responses. Actually I asked here first since I really wanted to know if the ystem BIOS needs to udnerstand ext2 file formats. For whatever reason a PC BIOS can do this but an XBOX BIOS cannot. It's a bit beyond my meager skills. Thanks, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
