First off, the good news. Gentoox Loader v6.02 is out!

+ Reboot while network client/ server active: If you have selected Net Flash, Net Boot, Web Boot or Web Update and want to cancel the operation, you can now press "X" on your Xpad 3 (long) times (approx) and the Xbox will reboot. The reason I say "approximately" is because sometimes Gentoox Loader doesn't register button presses due to the way the TCP timer functions - if it doesn't reboot first time, just keep pressing.
+ You can now select the URL where your packlet is located (see Net Boot notes in the manual)
* IP selection much nicer: You can press left/right on the D-Pad now to scroll up and down through the numbers. The "A" button will skip upwards by 10.
* Timeout on text menus and timeouts shown when active: Selected text menus can now have timeouts (currently only the IP menu does). When a timeout is active in any part of Gentoox Loader, the seconds remaining are shown in small brackets on the screen.
* Greatly lowered the menu timer latency (10ms now instead of 75ms). This provides for a much more responsive GUI.

You can grab this update from here. You can also get the XBE update by running magic, and soon "Web update" will be active. Thanks to "cheesyboofs" for the push of inspiration on this release.

Now for the sad news. My development, and oldest Xbox, which has been with me for just under 3 years (probably 3 years next month) died on me. The scary thing is, it died just after my final test of this new Gentoox Loader. You don't have anything to worry about, though. The Xbox went up in a ball of flames and clouds of smoke. I tracked the problem down to some of my wiring which had become trapped between the casing after I last closed the box up (which I had assumed would be for the last time). The insulation on the wiring had finally given away and two wires touched. This instantly ruined the modchip along with the on-board flash circuitry. It wont even boot with the modchip totally removed.

What does this mean to you? I can no longer work on anything flash-related for the Xbox as I have no means of testing. I'll try and source a raincoat flashable modchip, but thats going to be low priority at the moment.

Anyway, comments on the new release are appreciated. While I make no guarantees that it won't make your Xbox go up in smoke, I'm 99.9% sure that Gentoox Loader wasn't the cause.