Xbox softmod or chip boot to floppy image?

[baggacfreak]

Hi,

I have a softmodded and chipped xbox original and was wondering whether it is possible to add a boot entry for a floppy image. I would need this to boot up kolibri os. A small os written in assembler and it fits and boots from a floppy image. www.kolibrios.org is the side where you can download the newest image file. Would be cool to get kolibri os on the xbox!

Thanks for the great work on xbmc4xbox!

[baggacfreak]

http://board.kolibrios.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3271

Is there memdisk available for xbox linux?

Would this config work?

title KolibriOS
kernel /memdisk
initrd /kolibri.img

[baggacfreak]

I installed dsl linux on the hda2 partition and than there is
linuxboot.cfg under /boot. I add the following lines, but it seems to
hang after reading:

title KolibriOS
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/memdisk
initrd /boot/kolibri.img
append root=/dev/hda2 init=/etc/init ro video=xbox:640x480 quiet kbd-reset



I do not understand whether the append root is needed?

[professor_jonny]

I would say it would need the xbox video patches and stuff like that to work.

[baggacfreak]

I got some information about the patches done to linux. One developer off kolibrios is trying to get the patches into kolibri os. One question though why is the image read and than comes nothing. Is there a way to debug in early stages? Like serial connection which must be soldered onto the xbox mainboard?

[professor_jonny]

Is there a way to debug in early stages? Like serial connection which must be soldered onto the xbox mainboard?

With a developer box or bios you can do it via network cable over neighbourhood the xbox also has an i2c debug port on the lpc headder


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[baggacfreak]

Thanks for the information! As development on kolibri os is very slow it will take more time than things move along here, but hopefully some day kolibri os will boot on a xbox classic!