Tivonet and mounting problem

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I am just going to paste what I put up at AVS. No one seems to want to help so maybe some one here might have an idea.

I get the following error at the end of the tivonet script:
mounting //dev/hdb4 on //mnt and //dev/hdb7 on //mnt7
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Unable to mount partitions -- aborting
unmount: //mnt7: not mounted.

Now I just did this the other day. I copied/backed up using the DD command from my 20 gig drive Tivo drive to my backup 20 gig drive and the ran the script and it worked, but I lost some functionality with my Tivo, so I did a disk to disk backup using MFSTOOLS and restore to the spare drive that I want to use for hacking. I got the functionalltiy back but now the above error is what I get when I run the script. I used Joe to edit the script and I only changed the IP address and the hd* location of the drive. Linux newbe here but I am learning...

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One last thought... If I used MFSTOOLS to backup and restore would I have to record something for partition 7 to become active or at least appear to have a file system on it? I tried to manually mount both 4 and 7 while specifying file type to be ext2. 4 worked but 7 did not.
Anyone,,,,,Help!!!

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[TiVo_Canada]

What you've typed has nothing to do with TiVonet. You might use TiVonet for mounting an NFS or SMB filesystem from a remote machine.

You are trying to mount another partition on the same drive. In my case, since I am still at v1.3 and never allowed 2.0.1 to be downloaded, my /dev/hda4 partition is empty - no filesystem - so I can't mount it.

Could you have the same issue?

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Well, Yes you are right about this problem having nothing to do with the workings of Tivonet, but it has everything to do with the setup process of Tivonet because the setup process cannot take place without the mounting process which is where I am at.
Can you tell me what file (logging info) I can look at after boot up that shows the booting information so I can see if partition 7 even shows up on that disk. It goes by so fast that I can't see the info.
I will try to record a short show and see if that activates the file system for that partition on the tivo drive. Maybe that is all I need to do or it could be that I don't have the foggest idea what I am talking which would be par for the course.

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[TiVo_Canada]

I'm not really following why you need the partition to get TiVonet to work. I just loaded the modules manually after copying them over the serial port and then changed /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

You might want to tail /var/log/kernel or /var/log/messages for bootup/hardware info or application messages respectively.

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Because I'm stupid when it comes to linux. My knowledge is limited and all I know how to do right now is edit and run the tivonet script from the 9th Tee. If the script fails because Partition 7 can't be mounted then I'm at a lost as to what to do. The script doesn't finish and files do not get transfered. I don't know how to transfer files manually in linux but I am learning.
Someone said that both Partition 4 and Partition 7 are boot partitions. If that is true then can I skip the Partition 7 transfer all together by remarking that reference out of the script?

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[TiVo_Canada]

Didn't know there was a script.

Not sure what you mean by transfering files in Linux.
cp file-orig file-new is the general syntax, but I bet you want to know how to get it on the TiVo in the first place. :(

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Just an update that I got my problem fixed. The MFSTOOLS program does not completely backup and restore all the files in each partition. Being new to Tivo, I did not know that there are two boot partitions 4 & 7. Only one needed to be used for booting. I used the the DD command to copy partition 7 from my orginal Tivo A drive over the backup/restore drive that I want to use for testing and hacking. I was then able to mount Partition 7 and the Tivonet script (from 9thtee.com) ran without a problem.

Command:

dd if=/dev/hdc7 of=/dev/hdd7 bs=32k

Now on to extractstream!

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