Got: Code: FATX: found unrecognized signature PS: PsLoadImage: 'xbdm.dll' failed to load (C000014F) INIT: Debug monitor failed to start (C000014F) FATX: found unrecognized signature PS: PsLoadImage: 'default.exe' failed to load (C000014F) INIT: Default executable failed to start (C000014F) aswell after creating a disk aswell. Its a older thread but I think some people still might be intrested. ive made the disk usings CDIMAGE (and the original one apears to be made with XDiscImage) but that apears not to be realy important. you can get cdimage ( 2.47?) by a bit of searching... could share it, but hey, this isnt for the noobs yet. used this command: Code: cdimage -lfussy "D:\Some\Folder\Structure\imagecontents" thedisk.img -u2 Also, to do kerneldebugging, I had to run that command as administrator, then start the giano project. else I would get that failed pipe file story. (hint, I made a batch file for the kddebug) Maybe ill try more, but time and other projects.
Found out about Giano yesterday....Pretty cool understanding how it works peeking and poking at it. I myself was interested once i found the .img file and opened it in 7zip to find some files there wondering if I can edit them.. Upon further examination thanks to Notepad, I saw that the file was created with Xdisk which I could not find any documentation on last night. It also had some information regarding the ISO type and UDF Files System..So I got to thinking in my old Xbox ways and wondered if FatXplorer would be able to open them up... Then I remembered a program called Qwix created Xbox ISO format and attempted to open the file but t did not work. Going through the tools on xbox-scene I found C-Xbox Tool 2.0.6 A nifty tool similar to Qwix. I extracted the files with 7zip and was able to load them into a folder to be created with C-Xbox Tool. The only problem was it was looking for a default.xbe which was not in the folder...so what did I do? grabbed an .xbe file from a game and popped it in the folder and created the iso =] Now after the success of creating the XISO I was curious to see if it would even work...Renamed the iso to zecdrom.img as an iso file in the G5 Directory. Being all excited with the command prompt open I run "giano -platform Alphakit.plx"..........wait for it.... BAM! Default.exe loads with no issues. Successfully imported a file to the img! So...Now what!!??........ Since this is the second day, I am looking into the framework a little more. I'm curious as to how far this can go. Maybe i'll read through all of the documentation on Giano. I also am curious what the .exe's were compiled with to see if we can get custom compiled exes to run. Not knowing what test.exe did in the same folder had me a bit curious. Maybe there are other commands to get it to run? When you run the Demo file it states the "Xbox" option runs test"s".. I left it running for some time but was unsure if it would cycle to the next test if there is one? which it does not. Another thing i noticed was when an exe is executed there is some type of address listed next to it "giano: Loaded xboxkrnl.exe @80010000..80a10800" <--wondering what this means. I duplicated test.exe and renamed it to default.exe re-created the image and loaded it up. Heres what I got. Everything seems to load fine. the xboxkrnl.exe is seen loading fine until it reaches "giano: PPC Cpu1::!RESET" Normally it would load default.exe within about 4 seconds or so after seeing the above command. This is where I am confused..does the test.exe even do anything relative to the virtual screen? I figured okay lets go even deeper with this and try something that may not give any results either... hoping for some garbald image. What could I test on this framework for a Xenon Alpha? How about an alpha build of a Xenon game! lol I obtained an early build of Condemned criminal origins here on the forums which has an exe as the executable instead of a XeX... Why not give it a try? I applied the Condemned build in the main directory of the image and renamed to default.exe...Attempted to run that and I get the same output as the test.exe.. after the CPU RESET command the console window just idles after that. If anyone has any further information or was working on getting other applications to load but was stuck at this IMG process I wanted to share my experience. I hope other people find interest in this now that the info is here on how to edit the .img file. I will post any other information or progress I come across and hope you do as well! =] Here is an output of the custom image loading normally with other files in place. (no usable files anyway) F:\Program Files\Microsoft Research\Microsoft Giano\bin>giano -Platform Alphakit .plx [0] Warning(1): Failed to open VirtualPC Network driver - not installed? giano: OpenPacketDriver: no NIC. [0] Warning(2): Pro100: No packet driver. This will not work. Configuration Alpha loaded ok. giano: Cpu1: f=20.3833 giano: Cpu0: f=20.3833 Simulation Alpha is running... 1394 pipe is \\.\pipe\1394KDPipe giano: Loaded xboxkrnl.exe @80010000..80a10800 giano: [Starting processor 1] giano: PPC Cpu1::!RESET.
Not sure, but I dont think the kernel actualy loaded any of your files. But if it did, the framebuffer seems to be very basic, we probably not going to run any fancy graphics here, not even static 2d with MS libraries I think. This was probably just a test, maybe a quick run to try porting the kernel to powerpc, they probably went to real hardware after this with real videocards (based on my own thoughts, no sources) what Fate6 said, and try getting a kernel debugger on your running instance I think http://xenia.jp/ is a better way to go for the most of us. It surpriced me that Giano came with actual xbox360 code, and whatever it is, we could play with it, maybe someone can make it run on early hardware or some simple executables run in giano (if we realy understand how to make a vallid image, cause even if I made an exact copy with my tools, the kernel exits.) The Fatx drive seems promising, but still hard to gues what it expects... Do note, I did not yet fully dissasemble any code. I did once for a quick peek, but havent looked at any code for fatx drive checking or what the kernel expects from a executable. (also, other projects are cool )
Is there a list of the exact hardware in these things? Is any of it proprietary or all publicly available? (sorry for offtopic)
probably seen it, but can you link to it Syclopse? or someone. Someone told me, that the pc like kits where near or similiar boards used by a G5, with ATI video cards... wich is obvious and very fage from me. I remember some people telling what exact hardware was in. Ive been in contact with someone who told me that he had a G5 with somewhat of the shelfs parts, and that after they ran a recovery (probably a modded bios, my assumption) it can run Alpha examples. He kept the disks and put BSD on it. (I still ask him to find these disks, but according to him they where already leaked) His alpha should be pretty normal hardware.
Assembler created a post asking about the specs and I replied to that thread. Brutal, after clicking next forever I finally found it. http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/xbox-xenon-g5-dev.52646/
Would anyone happen to have an image of the hard drive, Or recovery they could share? I do have the Xenon Sdk collection but i don't believe they work on the G5 because the earliest version in the pack is the Titan dump. After looking around I found a picture of the launcher version 2.0.1029.0 running on the G5 but it was not listed in the Sdk leak from what I can tell. wondering if the firmware is different and if a dump and a recovery disk or hard drive image exists someone can share from their working unit I would greatly appreciate it. Anyone here have one working or for sale?
No, no image of a hard drive exists that I've seen, also never seen a recovery disc. All of these were re-sold back to MS employees with OSX after teams were done with them. The open firmware is Apple, if updated with later open firmware unit will not boot, but will boot OSX just fine. Just an assumption but my tests show: apple powermac7,2 5.1.4f0 bootrom yes apple powermac7,3 5.1.8f7 bootrom nope
Are you not sharing an image of your hard drive for the 7,25.1.4f0 units you have? I would be interested in purchasing a copy.
A shame considering all other sdks are available. if there is little to no documentation in one place on the net Im sure it would be very unlikely to come across one, let alone get it running for how old they are. unless someone who does have one was willing to share with the community. or private share under terms. Even if it were a hard drive image without the launcher or test.exes if they are that valuable to the person. Not sure what the big deal is to these people its old stuff thats fun to tinker with if you have, why not share? Anyways If i DO come across a working one il be sure to share a proper documentation on the unit. =] until then safe hunting everyone!
I dont have anything 360 related beside the giano thing, but I spotted the serial number story... if someone sells a kit that has unkown or no matching serials.... its possible. Most apple hardware can be checked, but some parts are manufactured but never registered. Especially with these special kits. Wich I could provide more, but so far this part of the story is on hold (for quite some time )
