[dundee] Xboxes etc.

[Nistur]

I was just wondering, what do people know of filesystems and in 
particular filesystem checking? For some reason when I try booting 
Archlinux on my XBox it fails with the following error: 
http://pastebin.archlinux.org/20480  I tried running fsck from the 
liveCD and it passed with no errors ($?=1) I also checked what it said, 
and changed the "magic number" although I changed it to 32768 as I 
believe I have 4k blocks... but anyway, that gave a huge list of errors 
and asked if I wanted them fixed, one at a time, I obviously said yes 
and rebooted and I got the same error. Booting the liveCD again and 
running e2fsck -b 32768 gave exactly the same errors, again fix to all, 
then check again and it gives the same errors again...
I checked the sparse file I installed Arch to and copied from and I got 
the same errors... but again fixing doesn't fix... I don't know if this 
is a problem with the specific version of e2fsck I have, the xbox or what...

after asking on IRC for a bit I found that the XBox does not, infact 
have a partition table at all, well, until you install xebian that is. 
The partitions are implicit as every xbox is imaged with the same 
partitions. This, for some reason, gives the "XBox" partitions C through 
G, hda50, hda51 hda52.. and xebian writes a partition table, setting the 
/ partition to hda2 and swap to hda1. I don't know if this is anything 
to do with anything but I though it worth mentioning, just in case.

So, any ideas?

Nistur

Arron M Finnon wrote:
> Hi Nistur,
>
> Just some friendly banter you ken what i'm like.  But in fairness that
> may be a fantastic title for a night of flash talks.  
>
> "How i Broke......"
>
> Then people can talk about how they broke their system, and then how
> they fixed.  Be interesting to see if we all break systems in similar
> ways.  
>
> We could do a series of non-linux how i broke.... talks as well, "How I
> Broke my will live, by using VB"  
>
> Kris could do one entitled "How i broke my leg sky diving and nearly
> goosed it afterwards falling out the loft".  Bit of a long winded title
> but could be interesting.
>
> Anyways good luck with the XBoX 
>
> Finux
>
>
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