Accidently deleted rc.sysinit

[billabong]

I accidently deleted rc.sysinit and rc.sysinit.author from my sleepered tivo drive. The Tivo will obviously not start up now. I have textpad copies on my windows xp hard drive. Is there some way of transferring those files to the correct place on my tivo drive? :confused:

[motobrett]

i think you can use the dos2unix and change your txt files over to linux recognizeable then send them over using bash

[dave4089]

i think you can use the dos2unix and change your txt files over to linux recognizeable then send them over using bash

Unfortunately, bash by itself would not be able to transfer files. Bash is a shell, not a file transfer program. Also, since the Tivo will not boot, bash would not be running anyway.

Since the Tivo will not boot, you will have to remove the drive from the Tivo and mount it in a PC to be able copy the files to it. I would use an MFSTOOLS CD to boot the PC with the Tivo drive attached. It would be a good idea to pass them through dos2unix to make sure that any CRs have been removed. Also, make sure that both files are set with chmod to be executable.

Dave

[billabong]

What actually should I do after booting with MFSTools? As in what commands should I use? I think I am overlooking some simple command(s)

[Hi8]

I accidently deleted rc.sysinit and rc.sysinit.author from my sleepered tivo drive. The Tivo will obviously not start up now. I have textpad copies on my windows xp hard drive. Is there some way of transferring those files to the correct place on my tivo drive? :confused:

if you have serial connection - you can connect via tera-term and zmodem the files from your XP box. This does assume you still have bash, and can navigatearound yout TiVo drive, and don't forget to chmod +x both files. It's always a good idea to keep an extra copy on your TiVo drive. just add an extension like rc.sysinit.sav --

Textpad files will work fine if you make sure you do a save as ..UNIX file format, using the pull-down menu.

It may be eaiser to put the drive back in a PC however.. (and boot a linux CD or OS)