Ultra n00b needs some help please??

[harry1234]

Okay, I'm catching on to the basic linux command structure so I'm starting to get a handle on this! Bad news is I've hacked the drive twice with no luck. Both times it displays powering up, then the Almost There splash screen and then just re-boots.

The second time I tried the drive after restoring and applying bootpage and it worked fine. Only after I apply the killed 3.1.5 and modifying the tables do I have the problem.

I have the 7.2 upgrade on a Toshiba SD-H400. I used a killed kernel from my PTVupgrade enhanced CD.

Here's what I did:

My fat drive is hda (Primary Master)
/hda/tools is where my killed 3.1.5 kernel, iptables, rc.sysinit.author are located.
My tivo drive is hdb (Primary Slave)
My cd-rom is hdc (Secondary Master)

Bootpage shows my root as 7.

bootpage -P "root=/dev/hda7 upgradesoftware=false dsscon=true console=2,115200" -C /dev/hdb
mkdir backup
mount /dev/hda1 /backup
mkdir tivo
mount /dev/hdb7 /tivo
dd if=/backup/tools/vmlinux.px of=/dev/hdb6
cp /backup/tools/rc.sysinit.author /tivo/etc/rc.d
mv /tivo/sbin/iptables /tivo/sbin/iptables.old
cp /backup/tools/iptables /tivo/sbin
mv /tivo/etc/netfilter-enable /tivo/etc/netfilter-enable.backup
cp /tivo/etc/netfilter-disable /tivo/etc/netfilter-enable
umount -f -a -r


Being a ultra-n00b can anyone see if I made a mistake somewhere? Or am I missing a step or are there issues with the 7.2 upgrade.

Your help would be appreciated!

-harry

[PlainBill]

Good job reporting configuration and what steps you did.

There are several ways to troubleshoot this; one is to copy the killhdinitrd 3.1.5 kernel to the TiVo drive, then test it. This eliminates the rest of the steps as a possible cause of the problem.

I'm more familiar with 6.2 and DirecTiVos. IIRC, the 3.1.5 kernel needs special steps to work on 7.2. Have you checked the 7.2 thread?

I REALLY prefer to troubleshoot this by hooking up a serial cable and seeing exactly what is going wrong. I understand it seems like a lot of trouble, but it gives a very clear picture of what is actually happening.

PlainBill

[Jamie]

Your help would be appreciated!I agree with PlainBill's advice, but a possible quick kill: what's in your /backup/tools/iptables script? Is it executable? If you mess up this script, 7.2 will crash, as reported here (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?p=204669#post204669).