X-dsl 0.7 Remake Based On New Kernel Options

[ldotsfan]

Continued from here.
Motivation to do this: Run X-dsl from a 32k FATX xbpartitioner partition. Also to support a native install to non-standard partition beyond F and G.

I was able to get X-dsl 0.7 to boot from a frugal install with the new 2.4.32 kernel. Here's a work-log of the changes made, I referred to an archive.org copy of the x-dsl documentation:

CODE

The Kernel

The 2.4.26 kernel used in Damn Small Linux (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org) has been replaced by a 2.4.31 kernel. This is a vanilla kernel from kernel.org with the latest xbox-linux patches (http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbox-linux/) and the knoppix 2.4 kernel patch (available in /usr/src on a knoppix cd). The kernel configuration is available at /boot/config-2.4.31-xbox when running X-DSL. The linux-wlan-ng, ndiswrapper and xbox lirc modules were then compiled against this kernel and are included in X-DSL.

In order to add the kernel the following was modified:

/lib/modules/2.4.26 (removed)
/boot/System.map-2.4.26 (removed)
/lib/modules/2.4.31-xbox (added)
/boot/System.map-2.4.31-xbox (added)
/boot/config-2.4.31-xbox (added)
/boot/System.map (updated to link to System.map-2.4.31-xbox)

The kernel modules in the /modules directory of the initial ramdisk also needed to be replaced with their updated versions

1. I used the kernel config grabbed from a running copy of x-dsl 0.7 /boot folder.
2. I compiled against this kernel with make oldconfig under Xebian 1.1.4 running in VirtualBox. Rename bzImage to linux24 to follow x-dsl naming convention in linuxboot.cfg
3. I compiled cloop module with cloop v2.00-1.
4. Use cloop's extract_compressed_fs to extract KNOPPIX as an iso
5. mount KNOPPIX.iso and copy all files to a working folder.
6. Add amended System.map and 2.4.32-xbox modules to KNOPPIX working folder.
7. mkisofs piped to create_compressed_fs to remaster KNOPPIX.
8. Add cloop.o to minirt24.gz modules folder. minirt24 is an ext2 image.
9. Copy KNOPPIX, minirt24.gz and linux24 to KNOPPIX folder on xbox E drive. Already had linuxboot.cfg and default.xbe in place on E drive.
10. Execute xromwell's default.xbe. Select FATX on E.
11. x-dsl 0.7 boots to the familiar DSL desktop.
12. Quick test with firefox and a xshell. Ok.
13. Did a quick loopback install without errors.

Problems:
1. Sound is not working.
2. lirc is not working.
3. Probably many other things.

TO-DO:
1. Modify X-dsl native install script to install to any of the non-standard partitions beyond F and G. Co-existance of F and/or G along with linux partitions.
2. Fix the known problems.

My files can be found here. I will also update the kernel.config used to the same place.

[ldotsfan]

To clarify:
1. Is the output from build 1 or 2?
2. The partition sizes look alright and match what you described. But I am still a little concerned over the 'lines'.
3. Can you do a ls -R /mnt/hda55 from the console assuming F is mounted there? Do the lines appear?

[run088]

To clarify:
1. Is the output from build 1 or 2?
2. The partition sizes look alright and match what you described. But I am still a little concerned over the 'lines'.
3. Can you do a ls -R /mnt/hda55 from the console assuming F is mounted there? Do the lines appear?

I found out both builds work however the lines are still there. There are alot of them but if you scroll to the bottom of the directory the files and folders are there. So it is working. I just dont know why all the blank entries in the file manager "the lines where folder or file names should be when viewing f drive "hda55" "

Your code crashed a 128mg xbox twice. It flipped out flashing a few things on the screen then locked the system up requiring a reboot. I tried the same code on hda56 and it reacted as it should scrolling threw its list of files.

This post has been edited by run088: May 20 2010, 04:28 AM