Screwed system... Need Help...

[DaKillaWilla]

Im using a dsr6000 with 3.1
I screwed up my system playing with the rc.sysinit file. Now the system wont boot up. I did make a backup of the rc.sysinit that was originally there. Problem is i lost bash so i cant transfer the file. Can anybody explain the directions on mounting the hard drive into my pc to restore this file?

[boboli]

Originally posted by DaKillaWilla
Im using a dsr6000 with 3.1
I screwed up my system playing with the rc.sysinit file. Now the system wont boot up. I did make a backup of the rc.sysinit that was originally there. Problem is i lost bash so i cant transfer the file. Can anybody explain the directions on mounting the hard drive into my pc to restore this file?

Take drive out of unit. Place into a PC in the secondary Master position. Boot said PC with one of the multitude of Bootable TIVO Utilities CDs.
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[captain_video]

Did you make the rc.sysinit file executable after you edited it? If you don't make it executable, the Tivo will never start up rc.sysinit and it will hang on the Powering up screen forever and never boot. Check out the Newbies guide for info on mounting your Tivo drive in a PC. Pay particular attention to sections 3&4.

http://www.pitoudistro.com/pd/zip/tutorial.html

Once you've mounted the drive, navigate to the /etc/rc.d directory and make the rc.sysinit file executable as follows:

cd /etc/rc.d
chmod +x rc.sysinit

Unmount your drive, shut down the PC using CTRL+ALT+DEL and kill the power when it gets to the POST screen. Put the drive back in your Tivo and see if it boots up. If it still won't boot, reinstall it in your PC and then restore the backup rc.sysinit file. Mount the drives as before and do the following:

cd /etc/rc.d
rm rc.sysinit
cp rc.sysinit.bak rc.sysinit
chmod +x rc.sysinit

Shut down the PC as before and restore the drive to your Tivo. It should nopw boot up properly. A word of advice about editing Tivo Linux files. You will find it less likely to screw up the file if you transfer a copy to your PC and edit it using Textpad. Save the file in Unix format when you're done or use the DOS2UNIX utility to convert it. Transfer the file back to your Tivo (backup and delete the original 1st before you replace it with the edited file). Make sure you set the attributes and then reboot the Tivo to implement the changes.

[strakajagr]

Somehow I screwed something up... I was adding this

# add Turbonet card support to DirectTivo With serial bash already running.
# replace the IP adresses as needed...
# example Tivo IP address = 192.168.1.105
# example Network Mask = 255.255.255.0
# example Default Gateway = 192.168.1.1

tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
insmod -f /lib/modules/ax88796.o macaddr=010203 timing=5
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route.tivo add default gw 192.168.1.1

-------Initially I kept adding this code BEFORE
"echo "rc.sysinit is complete"

but i realized my mistake and edited it correctly...

NOW I can't get bash back on my serial connection... I hit enter and nothing happens. It's as if it's no longer connected. This is the first time this has happened. Well now I can't communicate with my tivo. Turbonet didn't work and neither does bash now...

Is there any way I can get bash back without hooking my tivo drive up to my PC and then replacing the rc.sysinit file?