Mounting Tivo Drive Problems

[rkersh409]

I upgraded my hd to 120G. Applied killhdinitrd to 3.1.1c kernel. And now at the point where I need to transfer the killhdinitrd'd kernel to my tivo /var to apply it to my boot partition. The only problem im having is that I cannot mount any of the Tivos partition. I am using mount /dev/hdc? /mnt/tivo. I read somewhere that not all boot cd's will allow you to mount the tivo drive. Is this correct and if so will Hinsdale's boot floopy disk allow it to be mounted?

[PlainBill]

I upgraded my hd to 120G. Applied killhdinitrd to 3.1.1c kernel. And now at the point where I need to transfer the killhdinitrd'd kernel to my tivo /var to apply it to my boot partition. The only problem im having is that I cannot mount any of the Tivos partition. I am using mount /dev/hdc? /mnt/tivo. I read somewhere that not all boot cd's will allow you to mount the tivo drive. Is this correct and if so will Hinsdale's boot floopy disk allow it to be mounted?

Probably not. I STRONGLY recommend the PTVupgrade LBA-48 boot cd. It's not perfect, but contains many of the tools you need for upgrading.

I see you didn't bother to tell us which partition you are trying to mount, how you are booting, or the error message. Rather than giving you a step by step, perhaps it would be better if you told us IN DETAIL how you are attempting to mount the partition.

PlainBill

[rkersh409]

PlainBill, I have my pc's hd as (hda), cdrom (hdb), and tivo drive (hdc). My bootpage -p/dev/hdc gives me my root=/dev/hda7. So I am trying to mount partitions 4 and 7. I am using the boot floopy that Hinsdale's How-to gives. Tigers MFS tools boot floopy. During the boot up it see's my drive correctly. The error message I get back is

mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/tivo
/dev/hdc4: Invalid argument
hdc4: bad access: block=0, count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:04 (hdc4), sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
Mount: you must specify the filesystem type

At this time all im trying to do is to copy the killhdinitrd kernel to my partition 4 and updated bootpage to software=false. Then at a later time I can apply my hacks. Thank you PlainBill for your help.

[PlainBill]

PlainBill, I have my pc's hd as (hda), cdrom (hdb), and tivo drive (hdc). My bootpage -p/dev/hdc gives me my root=/dev/hda7. So I am trying to mount partitions 4 and 7. I am using the boot floopy that Hinsdale's How-to gives. Tigers MFS tools boot floopy. During the boot up it see's my drive correctly. The error message I get back is

mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt/tivo
/dev/hdc4: Invalid argument
hdc4: bad access: block=0, count=1
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:04 (hdc4), sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
Mount: you must specify the filesystem type

At this time all im trying to do is to copy the killhdinitrd kernel to my partition 4 and updated bootpage to software=false. Then at a later time I can apply my hacks. Thank you PlainBill for your help.


This sounds like a byteswap issue. IIRC, that boot floppy was designed for Series 1 systems. Mfsbackup and mfsrestore might handle byteswapping problems, but 'mount' certainly won't. Again, go with the PTVupgrade lba-48 cd.

PlainBill

[rkersh409]

Thank you PlainBill, I downloaded the PTVupgrade lba-48 boot cd, and that allows me to mount my partitions in my tivo drive. The only thing was that I had to download an upgrade to my Nero 6. Nero 6 would not allow me to burn a boot cd from an ISO. But Nero 6.6 does.