Mounting TiVo from RH7.3

[tivomaster]

I have a RedHat 7.3 installation that I would like to be able to mount my TiVo drive from instead of doing the boot cd thing. From what I have read this requires a special kernal. Compiling a kernal is a little confusing to me. Is there an already compiled kernal somewhere that would work with RH7.3 that I could copy over or could someone give me some pointers/hints/instuctions to compiling my own kernal that would allow me to do this?

Thanks
TM....

[Sleeper]

Look on the mfstools disk. It tells you what modifications you need to make to mac.c. in a txt file. You may also have to compile a seperate kernel with byteswapping for some tivos. You may also want to search on kazymyr's unlock patch.

Compiling a kernel is like hacking a tivo, It's not so bad once you have doen it.

[tivomaster]

Originally posted by Sleeper
Look on the mfstools disk. It tells you what modifications you need to make to mac.c. in a txt file. You may also have to compile a seperate kernel with byteswapping for some tivos. You may also want to search on kazymyr's unlock patch.

Compiling a kernel is like hacking a tivo, It's not so bad once you have doen it.

Thanks Sleeper I will give it a go... I looked on all the iso's that I have... (johnny death, tynsdale, and cobelli) and could not find any references to building a kernal... Where did you get the mfstools disk that has the build info on it?

[Sleeper]

Don't remember. Here is the file: It'also on my ISO.

[tivomaster]

Cool, Thanks...

[Sleeper]

Originally posted by tivomaster
Thanks Sleeper I will give it a go... I looked on all the iso's that I have... (johnny death, tynsdale, and cobelli) and could not find any references to building a kernal...

FYI - You actually have to boot from the CD in order to see the root fs. The fs in stored in a compressed file that is loaded into ram when the system is booted. Otherwise you would have to mount it through the loop device under linux.