[dundee] XBox Linux - USB, soft-modding

[Sean McRobbie]

I exploited mine by hot-swapping the drive after powered on via the xbox to unlock secure IDE.

Required no game or stick/memory cards, however I did have to upgrade to a later exploitable version of xbox dashboard (file by file!) to get this working.

If you do this, don't forget to power the drive using the PSU of the PC - the xbox will cut power after "inactivity".

Regards,
Sean McRobbie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Walker" <tel0seh at googlemail.com>
To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at lists.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, 31 January, 2010 6:48:58 PM
Subject: Re: [dundee] XBox Linux - USB, soft-modding




I did this exploit with an action replay. Perhaps you would have more success with that. 



On Jan 31, 2010 6:39 PM, "Rick Moynihan" < rick.moynihan at gmail.com > wrote: 

Hey people, 

After a long stint of serving as an over-spec DVD player, I decided to 
bite the bullet and get Linux running on my old xbox. I have a copy 
of the right version of Mech Warrior 2 for the softmod, and I have an 
Xbox-USB adapter that should in theory allow me to plug a USB flash 
drive in, and copy the bootloader exploit onto the xbox. 

Unfortunately for me, none of the four flash drives I own and have 
tried are recognised by the xbox. With the xbox either popping up a 
warning saying the memory stick is damaged, or it just completely 
ignores it :-( This is after dd'ing the trojan'd save game to the usb 
device... And yes, I've tried all four sizes of save game image. 

Is there anyone on this list, who's done the softmod bootloader 
exploit that has a compatible flash drive which works, that I could 
maybe borrow? 

http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_USB_Compatibility_List 

Incidentally the dd process seems to have nuked one of my memory sticks: 

$ dmesg 
... 
[ 5692.959971] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage 
[ 5692.959975] USB Mass Storage support registered. 
[ 5692.961278] usb-storage: device found at 2 
[ 5692.961282] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning 
[ 5694.101290] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 
[ 5694.372036] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 1 

What with my luck, it would be my new £30 Lacie USB key... Any ideas 
on how to recover it, mkfs won't work, as it isn't yet listed under 
/dev/sdX 


R. 

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