I'm gonna try it now on a 1.0 just for sh!ts.
EDIT: Not worth the trouble. Here is what happens:
It works, up until the softmod installer says "softmod installed successfully, power down now blah, blah"
When I restarted the xbox, it boots to the famous "hacked bios present with softmod" black screen. If I start it with a game, the game loads, but somewhere in the dash exploit process, things don't go good.
Here is why it isn't worth it.
All of your hardmod advantages are lost because when PBL loads, your xbox is retail again, which means no unlocked HD's and no missing DVDRom's or the M$ dash will error. Same case with after the softmod is finished, that is if someone successfully gets past post-install. (Maybe, hot-swap and then NDURE?)
So, I guess if you want to go through all this crap, just so you can hide/customize your flubber on your softmod box, be my guest. That is the only advantage.
PS, I never got it to work with 1.4 xbox. Only the 1.0 was free of the graphical issue, but still never got past the first reboot during the softmod process. (krayzies 1.1)
The hacked (flubber removal) retail bios idea is probably the only option
This post has been edited by xboxmods2977: Jun 21 2011, 08:08 PM