Cromwell

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Cromwell is a clean room reverse engineered BIOS for the Microsoft Xbox, as well as a bootloader for Xbox Linux. It is often shipped as the default BIOS for Xbox modchips, since Cromwell is a fully legal custom BIOS for the Xbox, and it also has BIOS flashing ability. It has also been used as a basis for various low level Xbox tools, and custom versions have been released (such as XBlast OS).

Xromwell is the same thing as Cromwell, but it runs as an xbe from the Xbox hard drive.

The current active Cromwell source code repo is [available here https://github.com/XboxDev/cromwell]

Early versions of Cromwell will not be compatible with Linux versions that use the 2.6 kernel and above. (what versions?) This usually is not an issue.

Some versions of Cromwell require

The disk cloning and partition management app Chimp uses a modified version of Cromwell to boot. It searches for the kernel and initrd in alternate locations that are specific to Chimp.

GentooX Loader

GentooX Loader is a

XBlast OS

XBlast OS was made for use with the Xblast modchip. This modchip provides specific low-level functionalities, like flashing the TSOP while the modchip is plugged in (with an additional wire soldered to the motherboard). If run from an Xbox TSOP, it can

Media Checking Process

(todo)

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