Numbski
10-22-2004, 08:46 PM
My wife got me a brand new directivo for my birthday, and I did not so much as open the box until I was ready to hack it. It's not been plugged into a phone line, not been added to our service, nothing. (Talk about willpower!)
So I've pulled the hard drive, dd'ed it to a new one, and put the stock drive away in a safe place, and since it was a larger drive I ran the ptv capacity upgrade.
Having done this once before I had *thought* I'd killhdinit'ed the kernel and was hacking, but the system wouldn't boot. So I followed the instructions, and this time, I didn't touch any text files, didn't poke around (originally I was screwing around /etc/resolv.conf and a few other things that seemed innocuous enough at the time, and killhdinitrd had happily patched the kernel. This time around however, killhdinitrd says that there's no supported kernel found.
So here I am, I have no idea what version of the Tivo software is running, or what kernel I'm on. I've made a serial cable, but to this point I've seen no messages come across. Also of note that I'm a full-time Unix admin, so I'm not afraid of big words. :) So speak up...do I need to register the box with DirecTV and leave it plugged in overnight to take the upgrade? Is there some way I can figure out which kernel I have and if it's compatible with some other version? How should I proceed here?
So I've pulled the hard drive, dd'ed it to a new one, and put the stock drive away in a safe place, and since it was a larger drive I ran the ptv capacity upgrade.
Having done this once before I had *thought* I'd killhdinit'ed the kernel and was hacking, but the system wouldn't boot. So I followed the instructions, and this time, I didn't touch any text files, didn't poke around (originally I was screwing around /etc/resolv.conf and a few other things that seemed innocuous enough at the time, and killhdinitrd had happily patched the kernel. This time around however, killhdinitrd says that there's no supported kernel found.
So here I am, I have no idea what version of the Tivo software is running, or what kernel I'm on. I've made a serial cable, but to this point I've seen no messages come across. Also of note that I'm a full-time Unix admin, so I'm not afraid of big words. :) So speak up...do I need to register the box with DirecTV and leave it plugged in overnight to take the upgrade? Is there some way I can figure out which kernel I have and if it's compatible with some other version? How should I proceed here?