Xbox question.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:56 pm

I am thinking of buying an Xbox. i would like to know for sure if the Xbox can run Linux. And if it can can you do a sort of dual boot thing where at boot up i can chose to run Linux on one boot up and on the next boot up just run like a normal Xbox. And also can i replace the Xbox hard drive whit a standard ide hard drive. i would like to know this because if i buy the Xbox i would like to mod it a bit.

Thanks in advance.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:14 pm

Yes to Everything.
But Dualboot will require a Modchip that has 2 bios Banks or somthing to that Effect.

Because if you softmod Linux to your Xbox, you can't boot it like a normal Xbox.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:23 pm

what if i had 2 hard drives coneced to the one spot and just put a swich on the power going to the hard drives. with one swicht on it would boot like a normal xbox but with the ther one on and the xbox hard drive power off it should boot linux. Whould this work?

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 7:10 pm

I really dont know, I Dont know very much on xbox modding, well the details at least.

try www.xbox-scene.com

Check the tutorials, if you cant find what you want in the tutorials, check the forums and ask there, they have probably a lot more experiance in modding Xboxs than most people here.

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:42 am

most of what makes it a 'normal' xbox is in the BIOS, not on the hard drive, for example, xbox live will permaban you based on your BIOS (whether its official or not).

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:41 pm

So you mean that i can have any hard drive ib it and it will still work like a normal xbox.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:39 pm

dragon wrote:So you mean that i can have any hard drive ib it and it will still work like a normal xbox.

You'd have to lock the hard drive to your xbox, but unless you mod your xbox, I don't see any reason why you'd want more storage, unless you have a ton of music on it.

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:47 pm

It not that i want more storage i would like to have linux on it and also can it run linux from a cd?

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 5:05 pm

dragon wrote:It not that i want more storage i would like to have linux on it and also can it run linux from a cd?

You have to either softmod it or get a mod chip, both of which you can find help with on these forums.

bassvocal · Post by **bassvocal** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:00 pm

I currently use a softmodded xbox and can still play regular games. Since I didn't want to completely install linux, I've been running DSL Linux as a LiveCD. Images are available on www.xbox-linux.org

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 2:12 pm

Jongamer wrote:Yes to Everything.
But Dualboot will require a Modchip that has 2 bios Banks or somthing to that Effect.

This statement is completely wrong.

If you use the GentooX distribution, it allows you to create a file for linux (rootfs and swap) on either the E or F partition. Then it makes a XBE for you to launch in the E partition. You can now "dual boot" both Linux and still have the Xbox for regular playing.

timmeh87 wrote:most of what makes it a 'normal' xbox is in the BIOS, not on the hard drive, for example, xbox live will permaban you based on your BIOS (whether its official or not).

If you have a ghosted dashboard (meaning it is softmoded) or if it has a modified retail BIOS, then Xbox Live will ban your EEPROM, and you can never connect to the Live service again, without swapping the EEPROM.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:16 pm

vb_master wrote:
timmeh87 wrote:most of what makes it a 'normal' xbox is in the BIOS, not on the hard drive, for example, xbox live will permaban you based on your BIOS (whether its official or not).
If you have a ghosted dashboard (meaning it is softmoded) or if it has a modified retail BIOS, then Xbox Live will ban your EEPROM, and you can never connect to the Live service again, without swapping the EEPROM.

So if you get banned and sell your Xbox, the next owner is screwed?

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