Please Help, rc.sysinit has DIED, Tivo is dead

[davehazle]

OK, here's the situation. I have a Hughes Dtivo with 2.5. I have turbonet and tivoweb installed. Everything was working fine UNTILL, i edited the rc.sysinit file buy adding noscramble.o, and tivoweb to the end of it using Ultraedit 32. Now , all i get is Welcome, Powering on ..... I'm so pissed st myself because i just had to reformat my computer and i lost my tivo.bak file. if anyone knows a way to fix this, i will be MOST apreciative, ...(i want to watch anerican idol ... ;) )

Thank you all in advance,
David

[Ellipse]

I think you may have done something that I did to myself as well, so do not feel bad. You are going to have to take the HD out of the TiVo and boot off of your various TiVo boot disks that you have made. (you have made this, right?...the TurboNet CD will work fine) You need to CHMOD +x the rc.sysinit file. If you need help doing this, let me know in a PM and I will be happy to help.

[bmm64]

Did same thing to mine today using UltraEdit; updating the rc.sysinit adding the noscramble.o. Did NOT do chmod :(

System: DTivo, Hughes unit, v2.5.2

I restored the original rc.sysinit, but still stuck at the "powering up" message. I hate to reload this thing, I just got it the way I wanted.

When I put the drive in PC, I mounted partition 4 as "4" and did "cd /mnt/4/etc/rc.d". Did a 'cat rc.sysinit' to display it - it looks nothing like what was there before; it's full of stuff about updating the PROM and all that.

I copied the new rc.sysinit to rc.sysinit.old and then restored my backup working rc.sysinit from floppy (I did make a backup) and did the chmod +x rc.sysinit.

Put the drive back in Tivo - and - geez I wish it had worked - still stuck at the powering up screen.

Any other suggestions? On the DTivo w/ 2.5.2 software, is partition 4 the right partition? It's the only one I could mount, but is listed when booting from the boot CD as BOOTSTRAP 2. Is that right?

The partition listing is:
hdd1 bootstrap 1
hdd2 Kernel 1
hdd3 Root 1
hdd4 bootstrap 2
hdd5 kernel 2
hdd6 root 2
hdd7 linux swap
hdd8 var
hdd9 MFS Application Region
hdd10 MFS Media Region

Help, pretty please with real sugar (no aspartame) on top!

[Ellipse]

Did you do chmod +x to rc.sysinit? If not, it will not run the script and will function the way you describe. You can do this from your PC.

[bmm64]

Yes (see 5th paragraph in first note). In fact, did quite a few chmod +x rc.sysinit.

I'd restore the rc.sysinit from backup, chmod it properly, then plop it back in the tivo. Welcome, Powering Up is where she'd stay forever. Put drive back in PC, and the rc.sysinit is replaced by a much shorter version that is trying to do a prom upgrade.

Did that cycle at least five times in hopes of getting it back.

But, it got old and felt futile so I just restored from MFSTools; only takes 30 minutes to have a fully rebuilt Tivo with tivoweb, tytools, noscramble, etc... Of course, no shows :(

[Ellipse]

sorry...I didn't see that line. Glad you were able to bring it back from the dead (minus shows...)