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[nikoperugia]

hi. i was fed up with always having to go to my friends' houses to flash xboxes, so i decided to try to flash using my mac. and it was a great success!
first you have to build a sata adapter to connect your 360 drive instead of your hard drive. i think this kind of cable is sold as a sata extension cable. it has a male and a female plug, instead of the normal two female plugs. i didn't want to wait for the mail guy to bring me one, so i built one myself. i took an old sata cable and desoldered the sata connector from an old sata drive of mine. i used a multimeter to check which cable went in which pin and i soldered everything togheter. boring but effective.
then you need an usb pen with dosflash on it. i used 360 usb modification something that you can find on xbins.
download the freedos cd image that you can find on their homepage. you don't need the 8meg one, but the 40-something one, the one which says "if you need a small live cd".
put your freedos cd in and attach your usb flashdrive. power on your macbook holding the c key. press enter at the syslinux prompt. i found that using your arrow key to choose to run freedos live blocked the entire system, so you'll have to choose install to harddrive, then choose your keyb layout and maybe some other stuff i don't remember. proceed until you see a menu in which the third-something option is "run freedos live, return to command prompt".
you now have all the power of a dos-emulating prompt at your fingertips! your flash drive should be the c: drive. navigate to the dosflash executable and you're done. from now on it's bussiness as usual.

i used the first revision of the alluminium macbook.
fight the fear to attach microsoft stuff to your mac! it's worth it!
sorry for the sometimes confusing instructions. i wrote this just to let people know that flashing with a macbook is indeed possibile, as i haven't found anything on the web.

[maz3r]

QUOTE(nikoperugia @ Jan 6 2010, 08:18 AM)

hi. i was fed up with always having to go to my friends' houses to flash xboxes, so i decided to try to flash using my mac. and it was a great success!
first you have to build a sata adapter to connect your 360 drive instead of your hard drive. i think this kind of cable is sold as a sata extension cable. it has a male and a female plug, instead of the normal two female plugs. i didn't want to wait for the mail guy to bring me one, so i built one myself. i took an old sata cable and desoldered the sata connector from an old sata drive of mine. i used a multimeter to check which cable went in which pin and i soldered everything togheter. boring but effective.
then you need an usb pen with dosflash on it. i used 360 usb modification something that you can find on xbins.
download the freedos cd image that you can find on their homepage. you don't need the 8meg one, but the 40-something one, the one which says "if you need a small live cd".
put your freedos cd in and attach your usb flashdrive. power on your macbook holding the c key. press enter at the syslinux prompt. i found that using your arrow key to choose to run freedos live blocked the entire system, so you'll have to choose install to harddrive, then choose your keyb layout and maybe some other stuff i don't remember. proceed until you see a menu in which the third-something option is "run freedos live, return to command prompt".
you now have all the power of a dos-emulating prompt at your fingertips! your flash drive should be the c: drive. navigate to the dosflash executable and you're done. from now on it's bussiness as usual.

i used the first revision of the alluminium macbook.
fight the fear to attach microsoft stuff to your mac! it's worth it!
sorry for the sometimes confusing instructions. i wrote this just to let people know that flashing with a macbook is indeed possibile, as i haven't found anything on the web.

I'm trying to do the same thing, with my Macbook.  But, your instructions are pretty confusing  I have a few questions.

First off, I have a macbook, and an xbox 360 with a benq drive.  What kind of cable do I need to connect the 360 drive to my computer?  USB to sata adapter?  

[wyldstallions]

from the sounds of things he has connected the 360 dvd drive in place of the macbooks internal hard drive. then booted the macbook up from the cd drive, with a dos system in the cd drive.

So in effect you would need a sata extension cable, (female to male), and to take the mackbook apart.

well done but seems like a lot of work for the sake of it.

Personally I would think it a s**t load easier just to get a pc and use it for flashing, you could get a suitable pc for flashing off fleabay for £20-£30 old dell kit usually does the job just get one with onboard sata.

[nikoperugia]

yes, you're right i used a female to male sata extension cable. i don't know about yours but my room is 3x4 meters and i don't really want a crappy old pc taking up space, especially because i think that i've already trashed 5 or 6 of them. buying a "new" one wasn't really an option..