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QUOTE (Wolfblade12 @ May 1 2004, 10:33 AM)

idots

Blush!

You can pack a game save hack with both evox and ConfigMagic. You would have to edit the evox.ini so that the "apps" section point to where your game save hack is :

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Section "Apps"        {            AutoAddItem "e:\UDATA\......"            SortAll        }

Or you can just use evox to ftp ConfigMagic to your E-drive and set up your evox to look for apps there.

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@tullm

Ok, so you only have the drive you are going to build for you xbox connected (on prim. master) right? From you description it sound like this is not a new drive, but one you have used for linux before - or? Because if this used to be a ext2 formatted drive, linux counts the number of times the drive has been mounted and does a filesystem check after a specified number of mounts. If this limit has been exceeded it could be that the kernel on my package sees this and doesn't want to accept the manipulation xboxhd tries to do. I would try to zero out the headed of the drive and then try again. You shouldn't have to burn more CD's! That's not the problem...
So try to do this after you have boot with the xboxhdm CD (make sure the primary master is the correct drive) :

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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=500 bs=512k

Then reboot and run xboxhd again. If this doesn't work your drive is just strange  

BTW. In the current version of xboxhdm, only the UDATA and TDATA folders will be copied from the E-folder on the CD. I know - stupid! This will be changed in next version. But after your drive has been build, run xbrowser and copy the rest over yourself.

[tullm]

@idiots:

thanks for the answer. this was my question. ;-)

yes, it is a used drive, but used with windows and no linux at all.

will try to zero the head of the drive with this command.

Is this like a low level format?

are i´m still able to use this drive with windows or something if this does not work?

thanks

regards

tullm

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Hmmm - windows. Seems strange that the linux-kernel gives the etx2 messages then?

The command I suggested isn't really a format. It literally writes zeros to the drive - thereby cleaning partition table / filesystem.

You can always pop the HD in your PC and format it for windows again, should you want to. As long as it is in an unlocked state.

[tullm]

ok, thanks for the help!

will try that command and then report what happens back here.

regards

tullm

[tullm]

@idiots: tried your command but that didn´t help.

Tried a second brand new hd and the same thing happens:

on boot there is an error message:

"EXT2-fs maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is reccomended"

and then when I type xboxhd there is another message:

"bad command, bad superblock or maximum file systems mounted"

Any Idea what goes on here?

Loaded it from the usual places. version 1.2

fresh hd on pri master nothing on pri slave and dvd burner on sec master and cd burner on sec slave.

Do I have a bad version of your package?

It´s a normal pc with an elitegroupe k7s6a board in it.

thanks

tullm

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As you describe it now, I have the feeling that you have trouble mounting your CD???

Assuming you have the xboxhdm CD in your CD-burner on secondary slave (hdd) try the following  :

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mkdir CD mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd CD

If I'm right you get that error : "bad command, bad superblock or maximum file systems mounted"

If you get no error try listing the content of the CD : ls -l CD

Did you generate the iso from the make-iso-win.bat script and burn it as a raw image (not as a new data CD) ?

[tullm]

Yes, maked the cd with make_iso.bat and burned it with nero "burn image"

booted from dvd-burner. can list the content of it!

your error is the right one!

but when i type mount the hdc is listed there.

what should i do?

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OK, so you didn't boot from secondary slave as I assumed in the code above. Then mounting hdd wouldn't work!

From a freshly bootet system (no commands typed) try do the following and tell me the exact output :

1) find-cd check
If no error, try to do : df | grep xbox | cut -c 1-8

2) fdisk -l | grep Disk | grep hda

The "|" characters are important. Also don't you reach the xboxhd main menu at all ?

[tullm]

@idiots:

first of all, thanks for your great help!

Here the results:

find-cd check:
looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hda...
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many file systems
looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hdb...
mount: /dev/hdb is not a valid block device
looking for CD-ROM in /dev/hdc...

df | grep xbox | cut -c 1-8
/dev/hdc

fdisk -l | grep Disk | grep hda
Disk /dev/hda doesn´t contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14596 cylinders

hope that helps.

thanks

tullm

[tullm]

@idiots:

and no, I don´t reach the main menu at all.

when I type in xboxhd I get an infoscreen which tells me that the drive on pri mster has been found ... and asks me if i want to continue Y/N then it goes back to promt with any input.

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The following disk was found on your primary master :        Disk /dev/hda doesn´t contain a valid partition table        Be sure that this is the drive you want to use as an        xbox drive or that is the drive you wish to rescue!        If you write an xbox partition table to this drive        all data will be lost...        Be aware of the following linux device names :        Primare   Master   : /dev/hda        Primare   Slave    : /dev/hdb        Secondary Master   : /dev/hdc        Secondary Slave    : /dev/hdd        Do you wish to continue ? [yes/no] :

Edit : Just saw your answer after submitting this post
So when it says : Do you wish to continue ? [yes/no]
Be sure you type "yes" and hit enter! not Yes, YES, Y or anything else.

[tullm]

ah, ok, I see this menu, but when i type something (ie "Y") in i´m back at the prompt

[tullm]

ah, thats the point then! I tried "Y" not "yes".

Will try it now!

thanks for the help answer!!!!! You´re the man!!!

that was too simple to think of for me! ;-)

thanks

TUllm

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OH boy! If all your trouble was just because of this small misunderstading  
It's rather restrictive that it must be exactly "yes". But this is the last chance to save your drive if somebody boots this CD with their windows-drive with important data on it, so I'm gonna keep it that way...