leonpc
05-01-2005, 02:22 AM
I have a Philips DSR6000 with a larger drive and a turboNet installed. About two weeks ago I noticed that I have lost my network connection. I tried a couple of things like rebooting the Tivo box and reseating the card and using a new ethernet cable, but to no avail. So today I decided to crack the box open and mount the drive in a PC so that I can check and make sure that the drivers are still being loaded. I mounted the drive into my Linux PC and restarted it... From a prompt I ran the following commands:
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tivo4
And got a message:
/dev/hdb4: Success
Mount: you must specify the filesystem type
So I did a "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tivo4" to which I got the following:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb4 .....
So I figured that I probably need to boot from a MFStools boot CD. But I got the same...
At that time I figured I may be pointing to a drive/partition that doesn't exist so I ran fdisk -l /dev/hdb and got the disturbing message:
Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
I then ran mfsinfo /dev/hdb. It showed me the partition setup but it reported it as /dev/hdb10, /dev/hdb11, /dev/hdb12, /dev/hdb13, /dev/hdb14, /dev/hdb15 and /dev/hda16.
OK I figured now I have the correct partitions lets just mount them... still no joy. Same errors as above. That is when I remembered that somebody else had had simular experiences in the forums and he had to boot with nodma and byteswap so I rebooted with mfstools using the swap option.
The boot failed and could not be completed.
So I am at a point where I have no idea what else to try.
I made a backup of the drive before I started working on it. Should I just trash the drive and restore the backup (who knows how good the backup is)
Is there something else that I have missed? Or is it time to tell the wife that we now need a new DTV so that I can add v4.0.1 to it and just put this out of its misery. The system still worked but the only thing that I could not do is attach to it over the network... Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
Leon
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tivo4
And got a message:
/dev/hdb4: Success
Mount: you must specify the filesystem type
So I did a "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb4 /mnt/tivo4" to which I got the following:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb4 .....
So I figured that I probably need to boot from a MFStools boot CD. But I got the same...
At that time I figured I may be pointing to a drive/partition that doesn't exist so I ran fdisk -l /dev/hdb and got the disturbing message:
Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
I then ran mfsinfo /dev/hdb. It showed me the partition setup but it reported it as /dev/hdb10, /dev/hdb11, /dev/hdb12, /dev/hdb13, /dev/hdb14, /dev/hdb15 and /dev/hda16.
OK I figured now I have the correct partitions lets just mount them... still no joy. Same errors as above. That is when I remembered that somebody else had had simular experiences in the forums and he had to boot with nodma and byteswap so I rebooted with mfstools using the swap option.
The boot failed and could not be completed.
So I am at a point where I have no idea what else to try.
I made a backup of the drive before I started working on it. Should I just trash the drive and restore the backup (who knows how good the backup is)
Is there something else that I have missed? Or is it time to tell the wife that we now need a new DTV so that I can add v4.0.1 to it and just put this out of its misery. The system still worked but the only thing that I could not do is attach to it over the network... Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks
Leon