Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:03:47 +0200 From: Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD/xbox live/installcd's available Message-ID: <20060827140347.GD95784@rink.nu>
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--3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello everyone, In order to aid people installing FreeBSD on their xbox, I have created combined install/livecds to aid those willing to give FreeBSD/xbox a try. The images can be used to boot a full multi-user FreeBSD environment, but you can also boot directly into sysinstall to install FreeBSD on your Xbox. As I've recently merged Xbox support back to -STABLE, an ISO for 6-STABLE is also provided. The images are hosted by MCGV Stack (http://www.stack.nl), and can be retrieved from ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/freebsd-xbox/. A list of the files and checksums is: xbox-6stable-20060821.iso.bz2 - install/livecd for FreeBSD 6-STABLE MD5 =3D 9afbab92bbb43a797753a941737ef0bb SHA1 =3D 26908c6301484c133f23875a8136c2dbeb336e88 SHA256 =3D d67e51c2a37e14193a5cbfb49903899f60784e39f91888f8e0a48c85ee3eee46 xbox-7current-20060517.iso.bz2 - install/livecd for FreeBSD 7-CURRENT MD5 =3D 82108c6112f8b39fb82e71fdc727704a SHA1 =3D 83e40e292ac8ace395fcf199f1bb16b0a34531c5 SHA256 =3D 2176904283707273e7d62e31c516bc81c9a2021556bb84adbe23071ba9b8dd83 Some important points of attention: (1) The loader used is Cromwell; the Cromwell version on the images has spe= cial patches which do not appear in any official releases build [1]. Therefo= re, if you already use Cromwell on your Xbox, please chain-load the Cromwel= l on the images beforing attempting to boot FreeBSD. (2) 'patched' dashboard (the Xbox 'operating system') versions can directly boot the /DEFAULT.XBE file on the CDROM. The official Dashboard will fail to boot this, however, as the DEFAULT.XBE file is not signed with any Microsoft-approved key. Booting this file will directly start the FreeBSD-enabled Cromwell. (3) There is no loader support. Any tunables must be set using kernel options (such as the root device to use) (4) The xbox is very picky on the media used. If you get random panics or hangs during installation, try another brand of media. (5) If you keep experiencing DMA errors or timeouts, please use a 80 pin UDMA IDE cable. As there is no loader support, there is no way to force ata(4) to use only UDMA2 modes. (6) You currently need an USB keyboard; I'm planning to add dhclient(8) and sshd(8) automatic startup to the liveCD later. Anyway, feel free to give this a try and report any problems back to me. I intend to clean up the script used to build the ISO images in a short while. [1] Cromwell from xbox-linux.org CVS contains all patches required to be able to boot the recent FreeBSD kernels. However, it does not support direct booting from UFS partitions. Regards, --=20 Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "When will the internet move from 64Kb max .com domains to .exe domains which can use much more memory?" - Edwin Groothuis --3siQDZowHQqNOShm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE8aZDb3O60uztv/8RAoVDAKCTqfISyh44iuyt8lsL1AsOE/x6QQCeIwT8 vNCD6olv3cncei5eZgc+AHU= =kkpc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3siQDZowHQqNOShm--
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