Can't mount drive!!!

[rbiro]

While changing my rc.sysinit file, Joe went a little beserk and before I knew it, had garbled the first few lines.
Being stupid and totally insane, I didn't immediately copy the file to real PC where I could calmly edit it. Instead I continued along my way (from telnet) and eventually rebooted the Tivo only to find it permanently stuck in the "Just a few more seconds..." screen.

Alas, when I pull the hard-drive and try to mount the hard drive, I get:

#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/mnt4
/dev/hda4: Success
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

At some point I remember reading somewhere about putting Tivo drives in Win2k machines and signatures getting written to the hard-drive.

Is there any way to recover my hard-drive so I can re-mount it and make the required changes to bring my Tivo back to life?

I've got a Sony SA running 3.0 with 2 80gig hard-drives, turbonet, tivoweb.

[zabs]

I may be completely off here, but are you sure you want hdX4? I thought it was 7 and 9 that stored etc??? Perhaps it is different depending on which version of the tivo software you have?

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by rbiro
While changing my rc.sysinit file, Joe went a little beserk and before I knew it, had garbled the first few lines.
Being stupid and totally insane, I didn't immediately copy the file to real PC where I could calmly edit it. Instead I continued along my way (from telnet) and eventually rebooted the Tivo only to find it permanently stuck in the "Just a few more seconds..." screen.

Alas, when I pull the hard-drive and try to mount the hard drive, I get:

#mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/mnt4
/dev/hda4: Success
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

At some point I remember reading somewhere about putting Tivo drives in Win2k machines and signatures getting written to the hard-drive.

Is there any way to recover my hard-drive so I can re-mount it and make the required changes to bring my Tivo back to life?

I've got a Sony SA running 3.0 with 2 80gig hard-drives, turbonet, tivoweb.

You can't mount the drive as primary master. Hook it up as primary slave, or secondary master or slave.

If you booted into
Win2k with the Tivo drive attached, you've hosed the drive's signature.

[rbiro]

It turns out that the default params for the MFSTools 2.0 CD boots with byteswapping disabled, so when running on an x86 machine, a Tivo drive doesn't make sense.

I was advised to use:

vmlnodma hda=bswap

And now I can successfully mount my Tivo partitions.

Only now I see that /mnt/hda7/etc is completely EMPTY!?!? The rc.d directory and everything else is gone!

I know that hda7 is the active Tivo because the YAC hacks that I was playing with prior to my stupidity are right there.

Is the only thing required the rc.d directory and the rc.sysinit file in there?

[BubbleLamp]

On a freshly Xtremed drive, partition 4 is the active partition, so unless you changed things, 7 is the unused one.

Byteswap is disabled on the primary master for a reason, so you can put your FAT32 drive there! That's why every how-to tells you to mount the Tivo drive anywhere but there.

[rbiro]

Thanks for the help.
After remounting my hda4, my etc directory was there!

When Joe mangled the 1st couple of lines, it added carriage returns. So at the top is the name of the file itself, commented out! The extra returns un-commented it, so it went recursive!

Now everything is fixed.

Thank you.