tivo automagically resets my rc.sysinit

[Quench]

I've been reading quite a few of the posts here regarding getting bash up and running on my directivo (sony SAT-T60), but I can't get it to work.

Here's my setup: I've got a SAT-T60, ver 3.1.0, with a single 160Gig drive from pvrupgrades.com. The systems works fine.

I installed the turbonet card, rebooted, and setup the ,#401 dialing prefix. The tivo can make daily calls via the turbonet nic. My dhcp server is handing out an ip to the tivoand everybody is happy.

Next, I wanted to telnet into the tivo and mess around.

So I boot with the dylan floppy, mount partitions 4 & 7 of the tivo disk, edit the etc/rc.d/rc.sysint files on both partitions (4 & 7), adding the line:
/sbin/tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
to the end of both files. reboot, put disk back in the tivo, and fire it up.

The test call works fine, the daily call works fine, I can ping it from my pc, my dhcp server shows it handed out an ip to the mac of my turbonet, but i can't telnet. nothing is listening on port 23 on the tivo. no love.

So, to verify my work, I put the tivo disk back on my pc, and low and behold the rc.sysint file from partition 4 no longer has my changes and the backup file that joe made is also missing!?!

I've also tried putting the bash startup line in the rc.sysinit.author file but that gets wiped out too?

I thought that only series 2 tivo's had the ability to detect modified files at startup?

Any ideas/help?
How can I stop tivo from detecting changes the startup files?

[BakCompat®]

sounds like you need to run kill_initrd. i prefer the boot cd for tivonet driver. it has the driver and kill_initrd also.. or you could use any number of other sources which have the program included. You will probably have to do it every time there is a software upgrade.