RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] can't wait till microsoft tries this....

date posted 4th January 2004 19:00

Andy MJ:
> As I understand it, each DVD does contain a full version of the Xbox
> O/S, the thinking being that just on the off-chance that they've fecked
> something up, that they can update the O/S. It also reduces any
> possibility that there is incompatability with anything.
>
> If you don't stick anything in the drive then it boots up to the Xbox
> dashboard, which I guess uses the win2k core to provide DVD and CD Audio
> playback.

From what I can gather from reading
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/bootprocess.html and the other docs
there, it implies that the on-board boot image is a Windows 2000
micro-kernel with just enough drivers in-kernel to read another image
(either a game image on a DVD, or the XBox dashboard from the hard drive),
which presumably contains the rest of the necessary drivers. So, in
conclusion, it runs W2K.

- Nick Grimshaw
{ if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. }