FW: [mythtv-users] Xbox reading CD-R vs. DVD-R (was:Converting a TiVO Series 2 to a Myth Box?)

[David Levine]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:24:06 -0500, Paul Kidwell <tmb at ieee.org> wrote:
> I have the dashboard setup (nice dragon graphic :) ) and I can FTP into the Xbox
> with no problem. (did a lot of looking around, but didn't change anything) But
> I'm still having trouble trying to do the Xebian install.
> 
> What I have is a rev. 1.4 Xbox (assembly line three from country 06 made in
> October of 2003) with a Samsung DVD drive. (I used this to identify the DVD
> http://www.xbox-linux.org/Xbox_DVD_Drive_Identification_HOWTO )
> 
> I got a hold of a Verbatim DataLifePlus High Speed CD-RW 650MB and used Nero 6.6
> to burn the .iso to it. (using the "burn image" menu item) I selected "disk at
> once" which auto selected "finalize the disk" so I think I did everything
> correctly to create the Xebian boot disk.
> 
> I've tried inserting the Xebian boot disk (version 1.0.3 and 1.1.0) with the
> dashboard running and tried powering it up with the disk already in the drive.
> Nothing I do changes what I get.
> 
> What happens is I hear the DVD spin up, the screen goes black, then I get two
> lines of text at the top of my screen. The left most characters and half of the
> top line are beyond the edge of the screen, but I can see that the top line is a
> URL to Xbox-Scene. The second line says that "???002 Xbox Linux Team Licensed
> under ht GPL" and that's it. I'm unsure if this in generated by the dash, or the
> boot block on the CD-RW.
> 
> At this point, the Xbox stops responding and nothing I do effects it. I have to
> power cycle it to get back to the dashboard.
> 
> Does anybody here have any ideas? Or would I be better served posting this at
> Xbox-scene or bit.blkbk?

I seem to recall this (or something very similar to it) being the
problem I had until I burned the Xebian ISO onto a DVD-R.  Once burned
onto that media it worked fine.  Even if it is a Samsung drive (and
should be able to read a CD-RW), I would still try a DVD-R, to be
sure.  If you don't have a DVD burner, I'm sure someone here (me, for
instance) would be happy to mail a burned DVD-R with Xebian on it to
you... although of course physically mailing it would take a bit of
time.

--David