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<p>Saving work</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>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). <br /> <br /> '''Xromwell''' is the same thing as Cromwell, but it runs as an xbe from the Xbox hard drive. <br /> <br /> The current active Cromwell source code repo is [available here https://github.com/XboxDev/cromwell] <br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Some versions of Cromwell require <br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> ==GentooX Loader==<br /> GentooX Loader is a <br /> <br /> ==XBlast OS==<br /> 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 <br /> <br /> ==Media Checking Process==<br /> (todo)<br /> <br /> ==See Also==<br /> *[[Historical Xbox Linux]]<br /> *[[Xbox Linux]]</div>

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