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xdz
02-24-2005, 03:38 PM
Linux is my primary OS, so it seems kind of silly that I'm rebooting on to stripped down CD's to do work on my TiVo drives. What kernel patches/options are required for doing so?
PlainBill
02-24-2005, 04:44 PM
My expert says you should recompile the kernel with Apple file system support. Others use tivopart.

PlainBill
alldeadhomiez
02-24-2005, 04:59 PM
The kernel partition patch for 2.4 is included in the tivopart archive under src/.

Neither standard Mac partition support, nor HFS filesystem support will get the job done.

Byteswapping (bswap or swab) is required to access Series1 drives.
xdz
02-24-2005, 05:22 PM
The kernel partition patch for 2.4 is included in the tivopart archive under src/.

Has anyone ported it to 2.6?
Jamie
02-24-2005, 06:26 PM
Has anyone ported it to 2.6?You really don't need the patch since "tivopart r" does just fine. If you really want it (so you don't have to run tivopart), the fs/partition/mac.[ch] diffs will go into a 2.6 kernel just fine. The kernel build structure has changed in 2.6, so you'll have to add your own entry into the fs/partition/Kconfig file to represent the new kernel config option.