lots of troubles cuse i'm a newb

[orangejaylove]

ok so I'll try to give you all lots of info to see if anyone can help me out.

I'm doing this according to the
Hacking the HDVR2 S2tivo Bash/ethernet/upgrade that you have linked to your post Mrblack51

I'm at step 14 and this is how it goes

I downloaded the 31U5 image that you posted the link to and used that and it seems to have copied everthing fine

on my machine its (tivodrive) hda (1-16)partitions same as the "how to" the partitions seem to be the same

on my machine my cdrom is hdc

on my machine my harddrive is hdd, hdd1 is ntfs and hdd2 is my fat32 filesystem thats where I have your intred file


this is what I'm seeing

mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is mounted on /var/log/mount

I did a ls /var/log/mount
and got
floppy/ mfstools.2/ mfstools.htm*
isolinux/ mfstools.doc* other

the "how to" says I should see a img subdirectory and that the genromfs and bootpage utilities are there... I don't think I see them...

so I tried

umount /var/log/mount

then I did

mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

so I tryed

cd /cdrom
cdrom#

so looked good so far so I did at the cdrom# bootpage -p /dev/hdc

sh: command not found

so I tried hdc hda hdd and all get the same

sh: command not found

whats the problem? Can you help me? need more info?

thanks in advance...

[citivolus]

the bootpage executable should be in the root directory of the cdrom you created using the mfstools iso.

first mount the cdrom. then do a 'ls -l /cdrom/bootpage' to make sure it's there. then you can simply run:

cd /cdrom
./bootpage -p /dev/hdc

or whatever parameters you want to pass in.

[yellaboyla]

You have the wrong cd. happened to me first time too.

there are 2 diffent downloads of mfstools cd. try the other. One booted just fine but had no data in the root. 2nd one I found was the ticket.

[mrblack51]

Originally posted by yellaboyla
You have the wrong cd. happened to me first time too.

there are 2 diffent downloads of mfstools cd. try the other. One booted just fine but had no data in the root. 2nd one I found was the ticket.

that is exactly correct. you must use the cd from the BASH_ENV thread, not the general mfstools 2 disk

[orangejaylove]

I'm very slowly makeing my way through this this is where I am now

16. Ok this is the final modification, we hook the code in the last partition (determined in Step 12) by typing this VERY CAREFULLY:
NOTE hda16 is correct last blank partition

bootpage -P "root=/dev/hda7 BASH_ENV=\`mount\$IFS-
n\$IFS/dev/hda16\$IFS/mnt;echo\$IFS/mnt/hacks\`" -C /dev/hdc

this wont work it says that hdc is not a tivo drive the sign 0x00 0x00 don't match the expected 0x14 x92

hda (1-16) are my tivo drive hdc is my cdrom hdd (1-2) are my harddrive

:mad:

[yellaboyla]

your problem is with the last part of the line "-C /dev/hdc" should be -C /dev/hda"

hda is your 'current location' of the TiVO drive. Since your drive is in IDE-0/master =hda

the '$IFS/dev/hda16' refers to the way the TiVO unit will see the drive. When it is in a TiVo unit it will always be HDA.

In your pc, it can be
prim/master =hda
prim/slave =hdb
sec/master =hdc
sec/slave =hdd

Just write this down and when u hook up your pc, mark which drive is plugged in where.....hope this helps....




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16.
bootpage -P "root=/dev/hda7 BASH_ENV=\`mount\$IFS-
n\$IFS/dev/hda16\$IFS/mnt;echo\$IFS/mnt/hacks\`" -C /dev/hdc

this wont work it says that hdc is not a tivo drive the sign 0x00 0x00 don't match the expected 0x14 x92

hda (1-16) are my tivo drive hdc is my cdrom hdd (1-2) are my harddrive

:mad: [/B]

[mrblack51]

no offense orangejaylove, but you need to read those directions a little more carefully. they made it clear about the issue that yellaboyla mentioned, as well as the fact that "root=/dev/hda7" may need to be changed if your root partition is hda4