I had a problomatic falcon like this i used 5 100 ohm resistors and the diode and ground on chasis and nothing

so i took it to a buddies house and it read but boot ALOT of bad block errors. so i took it back home removed all the resistors and kept the diode. and it worked. but then starting getting back blocks after block 200. so i decided to move the ground to J2B1.12 and lucky enough it read all the way through no errors.. and i was using lpt by the way. so if anyone is just not having any luck. remove the resistors! or pick a solid ground like on the board and not on the chasis

Some people might not know...

Hi i myself stuggled to actually get into xell for a while. i have an xenon board with no dvd drive at all to get me into xell. anyways after poking and prodding i finally found out how to boot xell without a dvd drive at all. all that is needed is the cable. So for this to work you need to look at this link.. it shows you the dvd drive pin numbers.

http://beta.ivancover.com/wiki/images/a/a8/Xbox_360_lite-on_dvd_power_cable.png

So what i did to get this to work. is normally my box boots right into xbr without my drive installed. so what i did was i bridged pins 6, and 4. which is 3.3v, and drive status, and this works for me 100%. also if you have the problem where you have a newer box and it boots into xell and you need to get into xbr but dont have a drive this may be a solution for you too. anyways i hope this help you out. and one more thing. when looking at the pins. 6 and 4 on the cable (female side) is also 5, and 3 on the male side on the motherboard. so just remove some black wire and bridge the two. it should work.

Hello all my new found friends i have a problem. I have an old jtagged xenon console that never had a dvd drive it. i bought a Hitachi-LG 79 and have flashed it for another xbox360. So what had happend is a while back i was flashing it in 360 Firmware Tool and i guess i wrote too many sectors too it. and the program froze. i did let it run for a while to make sure. but i even eventually had to turn it off. So after sitting in a drawer for a couple months, i decided to dig it out and see what i can do with it. See if i can getting it working with my new jtag.
So it shows up in my intel ICH6 chipset but slax wont put it in mode b. and jungle flasher wont detect it to also put it in mode b. and i dont have saftey pins to do the two wire trick. Anyways have suggestions?

yes i have over come this.. and without needing dvd rom drive anymore xD

I FINALLY DID IT! i successfully flashed xbreboot onto my nand. xenon v1 bored. although my kv and config wouldnt display in xbox 360 flasher mabee because of bad blocks and such anyways. i flashed my bad kv and config and fixed the bad blocks. and flashed within gentoo xenon beta 2. also ona second note. my dvd drive i recently bought off a buddie of mine didnt work in the beginning BUT i did get it working by taking it apart and running it open with the magnet just on top of the cd and that booted linux flawlessly.. p.s i also did a nono of flashing xbr.bin from usb anyone reading this DONOT DO THIS. i just read linux had a usb driver bug that could make it freeze i guess i just got lucky. also i never got tftp working sorry folks.. get a dvd drive xD..

also who knows how to ftp into xbr???

hello once again i am still in need of major help. anyways id like to join someone in a making a tutorial on configureing and booting a linux kernal and fileysystem that actually works off of tftp boot because i am having one hell of a time getting this to work. ive compiled my own kernal but still cannot manage to get it to boot a root device.. any help would be greatly appreciated

so this site looks to be a gold mine for tftp booting with ubuntu in tftpboot.

http://spearhead.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/boot-linux-on-the-360/

also to get dhcp3 to lease on my eth0 i had to create manual setting in NetworkManager to configure the device so dhcp3-server would run.
also i am having a tremendiously difficult time getting linux to boot. itll boot the kernal than get stuck at busy box with no ttys or even a /boot directory. although etc, lib, newroot, sbin, temp, var, init, proc, sys, and user are loaded. anyone have any ideas?

yes someone with the same problem. i 2 am trying yo boot linux so i can flash xbreboot. but i dont want to solder lpt because i have lead solder and its bad for your health:P but do you still have your backup nand?

SOOOO i have managed to boot a kernal from my ubuntu laptop via dhcp3, tftp, and a crossover cable..

now when i boot the kernal it gets all the way to freeing unused kernal memory. than when it goes to boot it cant find the cd directory to boot a shell.. now im assuming this is because of it having been booted off of tftp. so what id like to know. how do i get around this?

also for those to have tried and failed that this.. here are my /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf

option domain-name markedout;
option domain-name-servers markedout;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
server-name "servername";

subnet 10.0.120.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
   option routers 10.0.120.254;
      pool {
   range 10.0.120.1 10.0.120.78;
   allow unknown-clients;
 }
}

my /etc/inet.conf

tftp      dgram   udp   wait   nobody   /usr/sbin/tcpd   /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /srv/tftp
#<off># ftp   stream   tcp   nowait   root   /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/proftpd
tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd /tftpboot/xenon

And also for debugging purposes.. thank you anyone who can help. i unforunitly have to work an 8 hour shift. but i will reply

okokok wait wait i know what your talking about some dude once had this problem and he said hes CB changed. and he was able to change it... i think were on to to something here. keep searching

yo i did exactly the same thing!! and im able to boot xell. did you flash your keyvault in yours? i didnt and it still works but some people said it was bad if i didnt i dont know. someone help!

and also what does flashing your keyvault in xell do exactly? i also have a xenon 7371 kernal.. or did till i killed it with xell.

Sooo 3 days and alot of searching i managed to recover my backup nand. does it matter if its ECC? i dunno i named it backupECC.bin. anyways i got xreboot and flashed keyfault and config.

also would i be able to boot linux off a hd dvd drive? and flash in linux... im pretty sure i read theres a tutorial for flashing in linux around somewhere. if no hd dvd drive work. anyone know a simple tutorial using dhcpd and tftp with a crossover cable???

mabee do it up

sounds good. how do i get a KV from a con resigner?

so i have a xenon box with no dvd drive with a xell dhcp flashed nand from xbins... but i do not have the nand backup due to computer being wiped and me forgetting to backup important files.. is there anyway i can flash xbreboot to my nand? or do i need keyvualt still?

if so how can i go about rebuilding my orig nand? or at least a 1888 so i can update to a early kernal and get my keyvault?

so i want to make a program in C++ that doesnt use the boost file system..
a) i know a little about stdin.
b) ive read all the basic c++ programming tutorials at serveral sites.

in the program i need to take files in a directory that the project is placed in and then stores all the files names "excluding" the ".ext" so that if a file name is longer than 40 characters it cuts the file name to 37 characters than replaces the approriate .ext back with the filename.

i would somewhat like to use the system() function so i can just change the way it calls to shell to list files. than mabee store those file names into a string or stream or something that will seperate the extension from the file name.... ( also system() function would also be an easy way to change the program from unix to windows by just change the calling functions system variable. Ex. system("dir"); for linix and system("cmd -e dir);.

and p.s this program is souly for the xbox 1 but since theres C++ involved i felt like it should just belong in the general (non-xbox) section..