[dundee] Xboxes etc.

[Digit (SG)]

i suppose this email qualifies as the "etc" since i make no mention of the
cross box.


hehe, i like the how i broke idea.

how i broke my linux moral...
mouse, monitor and printer... one of these not working will make a dent in
your linux conversion moral, but once you've been through the monitor and
mouse then got it sorted, if you find your printer is insufficiently
supported when your printer is the crux of your activities....  my linux
moral broke.
so... how did i fix my linux moral.....
two things really....
1)  where did i go when my linux moral was low?  windows.  enough said about
that hard place.  i think i prefered the rock.
2)  hey... my printer not being fully supported didnt last long.  :)
(though i was sitting there for months without knowing better support had
been made available)


On 08/12/2007, Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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