PS2 PSX DESR needs hdd

Hello

So far this my progress with this thing and my findings

I have 3 PSX DESR now, 2 5000 and 1 7100

One of the 5000s was wiped completely by mistake and the XMB deleted entirely, the other 5000 was perfect with the XMB intact , what i did was load FMCB in the XMB 5000 and copy all the content from folders system and sysconfig into USB drive, then i started the NO XMB 5000 and copy all the backup from the other 5000 which was running good, afte copy the content and reloading the psx BOOM! XMB again , so my 2 5000 now have XMB both , so in order to recover the XMB you just need the 2 folders and that's it.

Now the problem with 7100 is that the system partition folder is only 32 mb , i noticed in the other 5000s the system partition folder was 256 mb accordingly, i cannot copy the backup osdx in 32 mb, how the hell can i expand that partition??? or how can i create another partition ?

Thanks
 
How was the drive wiped ? Formatted by wLE or zeroed out by some other tool ? If the drive was fully erased, you'll need to rebuild the DVR area and restore the default database.
 
Anyone know if loader in "__mbr" booting "hdd0:/__system/p2lboot/osdboot.elf" or "hdd0:/__system/BIEXEC-SYSTEM/xosdmain.elf"? Does it doing something special besides that? Just curious. And why BIEXEC there in the first place? Does DESR or all PS2 looks also this path instead of Memory Card?
 
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My progress today with this thing


Tear apart HDD in both consoles, the 5000 and 7100 and see whats going on, the 7100 a maxtor 260 gb the 5000 a seagate 160 gb

SWAP HDDs between 7100 and 5000, the 7100 recognizes the 5000 HDD without issue and also the games i installed i the HDD previously, i was able to play the games installed in HDD without problems in the 7100.

Then i put the 7100 HDD in the 5000, was recognized without problems , i formatted that thing from the 5000 console i i was able to recover the 256 mb in sytem and syscongif, i putted the xosd backup from the 5000 reload and XMB working without problems using the 7100 HDD in the 5000.

Now here comes the problem

In the 5000 i can load the hdl server and install games in BOTH HDDs, but in the 7100 the hdl server starts but i cannot connect no matter what, why?
 
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Hello

At this point i achieved what i wanted which was install games in the 7100 hdd like i did with the 5000, "partially" i made it because still i don't get connectivity with the hdl server somehow, something odd is going on with the 7100, but at least i have finally the games installed in the 7100 hdd (i had to do it in the 5000, the games in the 7100 hdd will keep stock there until i figure out how to modify data in the 7100 hdd)

I'll try next time the osd hdd which looks interesting topic , now i want to play instead trashing with the console jaja spend more hours doing research and disassembling instead of playing.

Thanks
 
Hi
I just got a DESR-5100 that turned on, but the XMB wouldn't load. It just shows the start logo and static. The buttons on the front panel or the remote don't do anything.
In uLaunchELF the HDD doesn't appear, and the same on a PC, it appears as disconnected.
Any guess or help?
krHACKen said:
https://github.com/xfwcfw/uLaunchELF
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I also wanted to try that version, but I had a hard time getting it to build, so I just got the most recent version of wLaunchELF, and pasted the changes of the original Balika commit. Now when I try to load the flash, it gets stuck on "Loading Flash Modules..." :c
 
Jose64141 said:
I also wanted to try that version, but I had a hard time getting it to build, so I just got the most recent version of wLaunchELF, and pasted the changes of the original Balika commit. Now when I try to load the flash, it gets stuck on "Loading Flash Modules..." :c
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I experimented a bit more. First I thought that maybe the loading routines for the flash were the problem, so I tried to make them the same as the methods (for HDD, etc).
I decompressed the bios and put the modules in, got the same results. Tried to use the bios DEV9 module and the same, tho the hdd0; would end the module loading (still not showing anything).

I tried then to use the IRX in the system/boot_0 folder of an HDD dump I got, and then used the extflash.irx from the SDK, and now I realized that Balika made a fork of the SDK with some changes on iomanX.irx, so tried that as well, one version directly from his fork and another of the most recent version merged with the fork, and in all those cases the app didn't crash but it doesn't show anything.
Any suggests?
 
Jose64141 said:
Hi
I also wanted to try that version, but I had a hard time getting it to build, so I just got the most recent version of wLaunchELF, and pasted the changes of the original Balika commit. Now when I try to load the flash, it gets stuck on "Loading Flash Modules..." :c
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I am sorry that I can't help you but I was hoping you would be able to tell me how I could compile the uLaunchElf from that link or share with me the changes you made? I haven't been able to figure out how to compile it.
 
krHACKen said:
What are you trying to do ? Verify/update your xFlash nand files ? Balika made a wLaunchELF fork that accesses xfrom. I haven't tried it but he said that it works. I'm used to use ps2link for that lol.
You cannot update from the update CD if you don't have a lower system software installed onto the HDD.
Downgrade can be done via install scripts if the system software updater is able to run (HDD and NAND with matching version).
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Can you explain how to access it with ps2link, please?
 
Eli Tsuji said:
I am sorry that I can't help you but I was hoping you would be able to tell me how I could compile the uLaunchElf from that link or share with me the changes you made? I haven't been able to figure out how to compile it.
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I'm pretty noob at this so I relied mostly on guides XDD. I also wanted to get a build that actually works the way intended before sharing anything, but I guess it would be nice to share it now, hoping someone can see what I made wrong or can fix it XD. Btw I only have a tiny little bit of basic knowledge about C, just applied what I know about programming and tried to connect the dots :p. The fact that most of the code was basically the same helped a lot I think XDDD

https://github.com/Jose64141/wLaunchELF there it is :p Just run "make rebuild" and do what I'll say later

For compiling, I used this guide: https://www.psx-place.com/threads/wsl-1-wsl2-sdk-installation-for-multiple-platforms.31934/
Turned out to be the easiest for me. Tho one thing I should note is that wLaunchELF use cmake, but in the Dependencies section of the guide it doesn't install it, so I recommend you to do it ;P

Also, idk why but at the end, when it should pack the thing, the program fails, so I just used the Windows equivalent and do it myself XDD. https://github.com/ps2dev/ps2-packer that program. In the folder where you compiled the thing, you'll find a file named "BOOT-UNC.ELF". Move that file to the folder where you downloaded the packer and run "ps2-packer BOOT-UNC.ELF WLEPSX.ELF" (the second filename is the one that you'll be using, you can change it, the one in the makefile is BOOT.ELF but I thought WLEPSX was a bit more differentiable XDD)
 
You don't need to pack. Packing is just for making application smaller (for i.e those who storing data only on memory card which as we know is 8MiB in size).
 
when the hard drive is connected to a pc does it show up in device manager or under computer management (dont initialize it)?
 
Nope
I bought that PC specifically for making a backup XD
When I plug the HDD the PC takes like 3 to 5 times to pass the POST. It doesn't detect the disk, it doesn't appear on the setup, and for some reason, the bootloaders I have installed on the main HDD can't load any OS XD

I thought it behaved like that because I was using an 80pin cable with one cable broken for the slave connector (which I assume was GND given its position). Then tried connecting it to the master connector, with a CD reader in another IDE connector, and Hiren's BootCD, wouldn't load
Now I tried to booting Hiren's from a USB and having the HDD jumper on Master, and it wouldn't show up anywhere :c
Not in device man, and not in any HDD tool I would start :p
Guess it's dead, but at least it let me boot the thing XD
 
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