Debian v5.0 Mini LiveCD - Free60 Posted by XanTium | January 13 16:30 EST | News Category: Xbox360

LAN-S and tuxuser released a new Linux LiveCD for homebrew Xbox360s with build-in lflash & xbrflash: [QUOTE] Summary: The Free60-Project proudly presents a minimal Linux Debian 5.0 LiveCD with inbuilt NAND-Flash/Dump/Check utilities. It also includes an option to install Debian-Etch out of the net to your HDD. Have fun :) Note: For some reason nandcheck reports ECC errors that are not real. Transfer the dumped image to your PC and check it there, it will be fine. Next Release: * FatX support * Kernel with Sound-Support [/QUOTE] Official Site: By LAN-S and tuxuser at free60.org (Thx to Icekiller for the news) Download: here[rapidshare.de] or here[sendspace.com]

Since this has built in NAND flash/dump utilities, if you have a King Kong exploitable 360 could you skip wiring JTAG entirely and just use this to flash?

umm.. you still need jtag wiring.. you won't need the LTP wiring.. unless you screw it up ofcourse

Yeah you shouldnt have to wire up a flasher, but you still need to jtag if you want to use xbr.

Just to clarify:
1. You solder JTAG connections, so you are able to run unsigned code.
2. You skip entirely LPT-flasher soldering, because you don't need it anymore.
3. You put the LiveCD to your 360 and using built-in tools you dump NAND (to USB drive?)
4. You take your NAND dump to PC and after making sure it's good (Degraded, several dumps comparision, etc.) you prepare XBR image.
5. Using LiveCD once again, you flash XBR to your 360.

Did I take it right?

If I did, it would be awesome! I just ordered brand new Jasper with MFR date 05.2009 to replace my XBRed Xenon for which I did a special RJ-45 port just to flash newer versions of XBR. I was about to do the same to Jasper, but if I could skip chasis cutting, doing more soldering (and of course wasting much more time), it would be just GREAT!

nice release, looking forward to build with sound support. Is this still using the libxenon stuff and running at 700mhz? anybody working on that? would be saaweet

look at the colour of the lights on your xbox when this is running.... didnt realise orange lights where possible

No dude, you'll need to at least flash Xell first in order to boot linux.


This is how I flashed my last xbox using Gentoo; same method can be used here and should load faster:

-JTAG wire Xbox360
-Solder flasher (I use LPT)

Now in NandPro (I've only done this with 16mb boards, no big blocks yet)

nandpro lpt: -r16 front0.bin 0 50
nandpro lpt: -r16 front1.bin 0 50

This will dump the first 50 blocks o the Nand, and it's where Xell will reside in.

Now compare them with HexWorkshop and if the match, all good.

Now take a xbr.bin just or testing purposes (you'll delete this file after verifying your CB!!!

nandpro xbr.bin: -w16 front0.bin 0 50

After, open this xbr.bin with 360NandDump Tool 0.91 to check your motherboard version, CB, etc.

Once you see that all checks out, delete and destroy this xbr.bin!!! it's not flashable and you'll fuck up so bad you'll cry for the longest time ever.

Now with nandpro, you'll extract your keyvault from front0.bin

nandpro front0.bin: -r16 rawkv.bin 1 1

Once you have this, we will compile a working XBR for your motherboard version and flash Xell as well.

nandpro xbr.bin: -w16 rawkv.bin 1 1
nandpro lpt: -w16 xell.bin 0

All this will be done in like... 10 minutes tops.

How, run Xell, run Linux Disc (I used Gentoo for this) Following the lflash guide.

once you are at the "./a.out backupnand.bin xbr.bin

your 360 will now be working with XBR flashed and all good.

After, take that backupnand.bin and inject your front0.bin like this with nandpro

nandpro backupnand.bin: -w16 front0.bin 0 50

This will make your "untouched" backup of your NAND if you ever need to flash original again.


The rest is magical, like this I don't have to wait 36 minutes for every read and write using LPT and NandPro.


I Hope you like this tutorial. Cheers

I'll come back when the errors are fixed.

What's the point if you have to back to your PC for checking?

XBRFlash eliminated the need for using your PC, but this just adds it back.

I think they meant: ECC error reports are not true, double check on your PC if you don't believe us.

nice i have been wanting to run a debian os on my xbox i do not like the gentoo live cd

and when this has fatx saport it will be very nice

thanks a lot this is good new

Can i boot this from usb?

how would I access my xbr.bin other than ftp to pc?

usb:\xbr.bin on one port and run


mount -t vfat -0 uid=debian,gid=root /dev/sda1 /home/debian/root/flash

than what now? run?

xbrflash -d /mount/dev/sda1/backup.bin -f /mount/dev/sda1/xbr.bin



????????????????


I don't find any tutorials for using this or at least a "here are the basics"


help anyone?

Needs USB boot support Dont have a DVD rom nor CD-r.

To clear up any confusion, to boot this CD you need a console that already has XeLL flashed on it (XBR, cygnos2 chip) and JTAG wiring installed _OR_ a console that can run the King Kong exploit.

For the king kong exploit, you'd boot the CD how you normally boot Linux Live CDs with that exploit. I don't have one so don't know how specifically. Once you've booted the Live CD and flashed the nand with XBR, THEN you install the JTAG wiring. Now you can run unsigned code from the dashboard/all the benefits of XBR, etc.

So no support for 256/512 yet Can't be too long now

This sounds good for updating, etc. As it already requires at least xell, you have to solder the jtag anyway, so might as well solder lpt too and just flash xbr. Will like using this to have linux option though.

Yes. you will no longer need your lpt port to flash, unless something goes wrong.

I thought you needed Xell flashed at the start of your Nand 1st to enable running Linux from a cd!?
To do this you would need LPT, some conflicting posts.

Hey, thank you for this great tutorial!

But, do you think, would the method be the same for big block Jasper (256MB to be precise)?

Do you have to type:

nandpro lpt: -r256 front0.bin 0 50

instead of:

nandpro lpt: -r16 front0.bin 0 50

?

So you only need JTAG and put in this CD or what?

Is there any way to Flash Xbox360 to run XBR without use wire JTAG? And what are the Xbox model thas support run XBR?

thx

XBR requires the jtag hack to work.

http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/xbox-360-d...reboot-faq.html

Sorry, I don't have one to test this out, but I'm sure it can be done if you use xbrflash for sure.

Try using latest xbrflash.c v0.3.1 and first dump your nand like this:

./xbrflash.out -d backupnand.bin

See what happens there.

As for nandpro, test injecting xell.bin for jaspers BB nands to an xbr.bin and see how many blocks does it flash into it.

If blocks are greater than 50 than you'll "nandpro lpt: -r256 front0.bin 0 XX

No problems dumping nand, but dont know how to get this live cd to dump it to the usb and read the xbr.bin from the usb. It recognizes it when I plug it in but doesnt dump to the drive. Any ideas?

Ok, I never figured that one out, but I did get it to work with ftp. When you boot the live cd it will give you your IP address if you have your ethernet plugged in. Just ftp to that address and transfer the xbr.bin to the "IMAGES" folder and just run your commands like normal. Very easy!

Hope this helps anyone who was having trouble with this.

looking forward for fatx and sound support, you can listen some music while FTP'ing stuff to your hard drive....

I think this would be better if we could have it like xbxhdm.


like, in windows add your own xbr.bin to the images folder, run script and than run this from xell

simply do "xbrflash -f xbr.bin"

Should be best in my opinion.

That would be a great idea, but, I think it should be like different editions of the distro, by using it like xboxhdm, you are losing some functionality.

Just tried what you said. I typed:

nandpro jasper_xbr_3: -w256 xell.bin 0

And this is what nandpro gave me:

Using Virtual Nand Device File: jasper_xbr_3.bin
Starting Block:0x000000
Ending Block:0x003FFF
Configured for Large Block Nand
Writing
File: xell.bin FileLen:14a000 Blocks:50
004F

And now... I feel a little bit confused. There is blocks: 50, so it should mean, that xell only writes 50 first blocks, as it does for 16mb boards. But what about FileLen and that "004F" thing? 004F is 79 in dec AFAIK... Please, could you explain it to me? Do you think that dumping only 50 first blocks of NAND using LPT would be enough? Maybe it is a good idea to dump, lets say, 100 first blocks of NAND (just to be safer)?

Best regards!

Yes, Xell only resides in the first 50 blocks.

If you follow my lazy man´s tutorial and use xbrflash v0.3.1 to backup NAND first it should be fine.

The reason to backup front0.bin with the first 50 blocks is because if something goes wrong with xell, you flash your front0.bin back the same way

nandpro lpt: -w256 front0.bin 0 50 and your 360 should be fine again.


Good luck.

now nothing is mentioned about the rawconfig.bin extraction or injection is that correct or was something skipped?

Thank you, dude!

Will do it next week.

It's not necessary for XBR.bin prior to flashing but you may extract it from nand if you like.


Also, this should get backed up with xbrflash within Linux.

ok really confused i have a 256mb jasper and i backed up first 2mb via lpt then flashed xell, the drive that came with 360 doesnt work but i have a hitachi that does so i used that the key isnt the right one but it still starts booting see penguins etc. but when it gets to mounting the cd it hangs awhile then says it cant mount and it needs another boot device or i can go to shell?? any ideas??

Also i have tried gentoo with same result so its not just this build or my cd's

yes.

Booting Xell, get your CPU key, using your 2mb dump, extract rawkv.bin, inject to your xbr.bin.

Open 360FlashTool 0.91, put your CPU key there, than open xbr.bin and with that keyvault, you'll get your dvd info so you may build a cFW and flash it to that drive.

Haveing the same issue with my falcon xbox.

Thanks for the reply, but i think you misunderstand i have booted xell and gotten cpu key i have hitachi drive in console and it boots the cd however during the boot in the black console it says unable to mount cd and i am at shell this also happens with my gentoo cd which i can boot in my xenon with xell so i know it should work is there a problem with the jasper BB version of xell or why cant i boot??

I've just written an uber-n00b guide on using this distribution with a 16MB Falcon:

1. Plug a USB keyboard into the 360.
2. Connect a standard AV/VGA/Component lead into the 360.

There are different versions of XeLL in 8955_1 and 8955_3, so....

8955_1: Power on the 360 by connecting a wired controller into the rear USB port and pressing the Guide button. (FTR I use a GH2 controller)
8955_3: Power on the 360 with the eject button and insert the 'XBR Flash - Linux' disc.

4. Leave the tray open until you see the power light go out and the screen change to blue writing (this is XeLL!).
5. Close the tray and wait a while - you should see the Penguins (woohoo!) and eventually, something like this:

6. Copy the version of XBR for your console onto the root of an FAT32 formatted USB stick.
7. Insert into the front of the console - you should see some info on the USB stick itself. Ignore it for now.
8. Type



(the | is SHIFT+# in Linux). you should see:



or something like this. We're interested in the sdb part, so make note of this.

9. We need to mount it, but first we need to make a folder to mount it to.

10. Type

.

Now mount it:

11. Type . Notice we changed sdb to sdb1

12. Check it's mounted:


(changes directory)

(lists contents with most recent files last)

You should see the contents of your USB drive.

Now onto the fun part - flashing.

13. Type the following:



, where backup.bin is the file you're dumping the current working NAND to and XBR.bin is the name of the updated version of

XBR. The -i at the end will automatically inject the kv and config from the good dump.

This is the output I got:



See the Verify Failed? I got this both times I did it - the XBR file on your USB stick has the correct information injected

now, so just write it back again:

Free60:/mnt/usb#

The output this time was:




That's it - all done

Handy hint: I did all this from the PC. download PuTTY (free software). Connect your 360 to your network so it gets an IP Address. Once you're at first prompt, note the IP address and connect to it on port 22 (standard SSL). Login with root/xbox360 and now you can type all the commands from the comfort of the PC. Watch out tho - a right mouse click in PuTTY is 'paste'. Be careful with it!

Hey there

i m trying to install Debian on a 20gigs harddrive on a XBR'd 256 jasper, i doesn't work it tells me several times : "no such file or directory" and then tells me to continue the install by booting the Xell-bootloader-sda2

Any clue?

there s no guide around here for just installing the debian that way...

hey Martinchris23, good noob guide. i have question, i want to use ssh like you did but my debian bootup without showing any ips. i connect my xbox360 to a dhcp server before i turn it on. i type ifconfig and it didn't show the ip. the network card didn't even up yet. what can i do?

It's possible you're not getting an IP from DHCP fast enough. Some routers take longer than others to issue an IP address so this might be the fault. The NIC should still appear in the startup tho.

I am able to install etch from this CD to, is this mine failure or installer is broken?

iv got the same problem to! any help anybody pls???????

its ok everyone iv sorted that out now
you download http://home.comcast.net/~ssmurf/XeLL-Bootl...2.6.24.3.tar.gz this burn the extracted iso to disk then put this disk in your 360 before rebooting
install will continue. u need to be connected to the net too

i have other errors with this disk but its worked with most installations

good luck

Ok, i have been expermenting and stuff with my JTAG'ed xbox for about a week now, and i still cant find how i boot this .

Is is just boot into xell with a burned cd/dvd of this iso and it works away.

Xbox jtag is in my sig.

You have to put the CD in after the power light goes off the front leds. Then close the tray. Then it will mount the CD and launch the linux distribution

Hey anyone find a way to install Debian lenny on? Etch is ok, but meh.