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This article describes the boot sequence of the Xenon platform.

• 1Power On Process
• 2OLD ALPHA BOOT PROCESS
  • 2.1Overview
  • 2.3Openfirmware

1BL

The first bootloader. This is stored in the CPU ROM and is loaded first when the console is powered on.

CB (aka 2BL)

The second bootloader. This is decrypted/loaded by 1BL and is stored within the NAND.

RSA signed using asymmetric crypto.

CD

Loaded/decrypted by CB. This loads, decrypts and decompresses CE, which contains the base kernel + base HV (Hypervisor).

CF

Loaded/decrypted by CD. This loads, decrypts and decompresses CG, which contains the patches for kernel and HV. It then applies the patches and starts up the patched HV and then the patched kernel. It then boots to the dashboard.

RSA signed using asymmetric crypto.

This article describes the boot sequence of the PowerPC G5 starting a Xenon kernel and OS.

Overview

The PowerPC G5 has a ROM containing the openfirmware (OF) bios, as well as a NVRAM containing variables used by the openfirmware to find bootable partitions or bootloaders like yaBoot or BootX(MacOSX). Its the task of openfirmware (OF) to find and start the os.

The basics are:

• After CPU reset vector and cpu initialization the boot ROM stored in NVRAM provides power on self test (POST - diagnostics), and initializes enough of the system to load Open Firmware. When enough initialization has occurred to execute Open Firmware, the boot chime is played and Open Firmware is loaded.
• OpenFirmware (Init) will then probe the system's I/O buses to determine the device configuration and build a device tree. the system will then examine the values of its enviroment variables. If the auto-boot? variable is flagged as true, the system will then read the value.. and attempt to boot from that device. If additional information is required the boot-file variable is read. If the auto-boot? variable is flagged as false, the system will halt the boot process and drop to the Open Firmware user interface.
• Default Boot Device on Apple systems is 'hd:,:tbxi'. ('tbxi', tells the system to look for files of type tbxi. )
• the tbxi (bootfile) is started and from here on we follow the 'Xenon' bootpath instead of the MacOSX.

Xenon boot from OF

In case of the Xenon Alpha, we found that a special Partition called XeBoot is at the beginning of the harddrive. Localhost mac os. This contains either or what we asume 2 files, a bootx file (like MacOSX, containing a configuration script) and a xboxroma.bin file, wich is a (stripped ?) ELF file like the MacOSx kernel. This 'rom' file will start looking for the Xenon OS kernel on various devices and start it.citation neededKnown location the xboxroma.bin is looking:

• DeviceCdrom0*
• DeviceHarddisk0Partition1xboxroma.bin
• DeviceHarddisk0Partition1xboxrom_update.bin
• DeviceHarddisk0Partition3ROM0000xboxroma_1mb.bin

(NT/WINworld notation) citation needed(is this realy the rom, or kernel that does check if its running the latest kernel?)

When the latest kernel is found and started it will locate its Dashboard or XShell files and optionaly if found, start the XBDM.dll (named XBDM.XEX)

Extra information

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• OF will automatically convert 'hd' into the appropriate device path, as hd is simply an alias. The notation ' tells the system to start searching for 'blessed' folders (directories) starting on the first HFS or HFS+ partition found on the system.

• All versions of MacOS have a folder known as System Folder that is 'blessed', and contains a MacOS Boot ROM file which is of type tbxi. The Boot ROM file is simply a stripped ELF executable image wrapped with a forth boot script.

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• A 'blessed' folder is simply one with a special attribute (or flag) set on it. The system will search all HFS partitions for a bblessed folder and a file of type tbxi within it, if none are located, the boot will fail. The system will always select the first one found, unless the boot-device is modified to a specific partition id.

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'tbxi', tells the system to look for files of type tbxi.

Openfirmware

To get into openfirmware, press Command (⌘) + Option (⌥) + O + F citation needed

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commands in openfirmware

The following commands work in the openfirmware used in the Apple G5 version known to boot Xbox software

Reverting OF into MacOSX bootable state

try booting macos from OF by typing:

If this fails, try checking if the bootdevice is actualy set by typing:

Asuming the Harddisk containing MacOSX is reinserted and NVram or Openfirmware is not able to boot macosx, try:

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Resourses

• [1] Opensource website used by the openfirmware on the apple G5
• [2] Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach (paperback)
• [3] Guide to openfirmware on the Apple