Freebsd On The Xbox! Options

[friedgold]

I haven't tried this yet but think its pretty interesting news.

http://nexus.il.fontys.nl/

Some of us can still remember the first of april, three years ago when everybody went nuts because you guys thought NetBSD was ported to the Xbox. Too shame it was april 1st prank after all.

Today (July 26th, 2005) we'd like to introduce FreeBSD, a high performance UNIX breed, ported to the MS Xbox.

Seeing as this is the very first release there's still some work to do but it all looks very promising

Caveats and todo's:

The FreeBSD/xbox port is functional, but not fully usuable yet. Below is a list of stuff that really needs some polishing:

    * There's no ethernet driver; the binary nVidia ethernet driver returns a strange error while attaching.
    * The console driver doesn't understand a lot of escape sequences. It's almost impossible to use applications like vi(1) when using a dumb console. It would be much better to try to port syscons(4), which is vga(4)/atkbd(4)-specific right now.
    * Though we built a port for Raincoat, a BIOS flash utility for the Xbox, we weren't able to test write support because our Xbox uses the onboard BIOS (no modchip). Testing it on our Xbox could render it useless.
    * Huge FIXME For some very odd reason, the i386/xbox/pic16l.s assembly file won't be called fully correct within C. This happens because GNU C doesn't adjust the stack (add $n, %esp) after the call. This only breaks things for 6.x for some reason, but it really must be fixed. Help here is very welcome!

[the_devil73]

It dont work when u burn it to a disk. I downloaded the torrent 3 times. Even extracting the files dont work.

[njx]

doesnt work for me... the cd boots butit's like cromwell doesnt find linuxboot.cfg (boot from cd)... (i've burned it to a dvd)

This post has been edited by njx: Jul 27 2005, 01:29 AM

[mr_spock7]

doesnt work for me... the cd boots butit's like cromwell doesnt find linuxboot.cfg (boot from cd)... (i've burned it to a dvd)

did you patch cromwell with the freebsd patches it worked for me after that

[the_devil73]

No no no i mean when i download it right it dosent work no matter what i do, i even tried extracting the files and it says failed to extract files

[arcadeconsole]

works fine for me

got paypal?
send me $5USD to cover the cost of shipping & packing + the disc, and I will mail you one on High Quality Media.
Tested working in all xbox drives!

msg me if your intrested
"offer open to anyone"

[the_devil73]

lmao thats alright, i want FreeBSD bad but not THAT bad lol thx anyways i appreciate it.

And i have a Samsung SDG-605B whic reads all my cd-r, it freezes whenever it reads my disc and when i try to extract the files from my computer, it says failed to extract iso.

DOes someone here understand me wtf?

[Serebrus]

Sounds like a corrupt download.

[the_devil73]

Im gonna try to DL from azureus on gentoo, that will fix it maybe