rc.sysinit help --- tivo won't boot.

[echo459er]

Hey Guys,


I thought I was getting pretty good @ this Tivo stuff, but I think I may have screwed up. Ok, here's my prob.


I modifed rc.sysint and of course my Tivo won't boot now. I'm not sure if I reset the permissions (chmod) or not, but I did however make a backup. I have the backup in /var/hack/rc.sysint. Now, the problem I have is when I boot with the cd and then mount the drive, I am unable to find any of my real tivo files. Here is what I'm doing when I mount.

mkdir /mnt/7
mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt/7

Now this works sucessfully and I have RW permissions but the problem is when I go into /mnt/7/etc/rc.d/ I do not see my modified rc.sysint and I am also unable to find my /var/hack directory (/mnt/7/var/hack) to restore the original backup that I have. Did I mount the drive wrong? Or are the files just somewhere else and I'm crazy.

Like I said above, the Tivo wil not boot and I'm not sure if I need to reset permissions but either way I am unable to find my original files after mounting my Tivo Drive.

FYI: The Tivo drive is setting on my Secondary IDE Master and during boot it sees it just fine.


Let me know if anybody has any ideas of what I'm doing wrong as I am currently Tivoless!


Thnx

[echo459er]

Nevermind guys .... figured it out. Went through mounting every hdc option until I figured it out.

Here is what I did for people who encounter the same problem ...


mkdir /mnt/4
mkdir /mnt/7
mkdir /mnt/9

mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/4
mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt/7
mount /dev/hdc9 /mnt/9

(Keep in mind, this is of course assuming that your Tivo Drive is installed on your Secondary IDE Master. If not, then use accordingly ... hda, hdb, hdc, etc.



Then, I accessed the /mnt/hdc7 partition and boom, I'm in to my /etc/rc.d/ files.

Note: Not all files are on 7. Example: On 9 - /var/hack and other directories.

What's funny is I wasn't able to find any information relating to how to actually get into your Tivo on these boards. (I could have just been doing the wrong keywords, but I still think I searched vigorously). But I'm sure it's in some "How-To" somewhere.


Reset Permissions or restore your original rc.sysint file (you did make a backup, right?) and your back up and running.

[captain_video]

You probably didn't find the info here because it's basic Tivo hacking stuff that's covered in other places. Check out some of the links posted in the DirecTV Tivo hacking forum on page 3 of the How Tos Only sticky thread. There's a wealth of info contained in the referenced links.

[groundhog]

Been there, done that! I'm glad you fixed it. I did the exact same thing you did once & had the exact same problem finding the backup. Thank god for the .bak file - huh :)