Unable to mount hard drive for hdr212

[Maxfactor]

I hope someone can help, I've been reading alot but seem to have become stuck. my hard drive went out, so with out an image I loaded a 60 gb drive using InstantCake. Put it in my system and it works perfectly. Now, the problem is that I wanted to enable the serial port. I then place it back into my pc and boot with mfs tools 2 with no problems. I create the following directories with no problems:
mkdir /mnt4 [ENTER]
mkdir /mnt9 [ENTER]
mkdir /mnt9 [ENTER]
This is the problem I am having when I mount them:
mount /dev/hdc4 /mnt4 [ENTER]
"dev/hdc4: succeded"
"mount: you must specify the filesystem type"
I get this when I do mnt7 and mnt9 also. My understanding is that I'm missing these partitions, is this true? Any ideas how to take care of this. I finished setting up everything per OReilly's Tivo Hacks. And I'm still unable to connect through the serial port. I figured it was because of the above messages. I'll keep researching, but if someone has an answer I'd appreciate it, TIA. (And my Tivo hard drive is setup as the secondary master in my pc.) Also, I verifed that my hard drive isn't locked.

[mbellot]

Do you have byteswapping turned on with the MFS Tools CD?

The S1 drives require it. I'd give you the boot params, but its been almost two years since I had to place my S1 drive in a PC... I'm sure a quick read through the MFS Tools and some searching should get you the answer pretty quick.

[Maxfactor]

mbellot, thanks!!

I found what you suggested, at boot up I used.

vmlnodma hdc=bswap

it allowed me to mount partiton 7, apparently I don't have 4.

Still having problems connecting through the serial though. This is what I did, maybe you or someone can tell if I'm wrong:

mkdir /mnt7 [ENTER]
mount /dev/hdc7 /mnt7 [ENTER]
cd /mnt7/etc/rc.d
echo '/bin/bash --login < /dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &' >> rc.sysinit
cd /
umount /mnt7
exit

then Control-Alt-Delete

After I put the drive back in, connected the serial cable and started up SecureCRT (settings: Com4, BR-9600, db-8, parity-none, sb-1, fc-none), then power on the Tivo. And I get nothing. Cable is fine (checked several times). I'll keep searching, but if any one can help I'd great appreciate it, Thanks

[eastwind]

I suggest you look at the file you just created and make sure that it looks like you think it should. Might also want to check the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author (if it exists) and see if it contains anything that might cause it to hang up (or post it here for someone else to look).

FWIW, on my HDR212, I don't include the '--login' part of the command you added to the end of your rc.sysinit.

ew

[Maxfactor]

I'll take a look at it later today, thanks. Since I used Instantcake, maybe I'll start over, playing around in there I might have caused my own problem. And I'll remeove the --login.:)

[Maxfactor]

Finally got around to take a look at my tivo again.

First, I don't have the file /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author, does this make a difference?

I looked at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file. I went to the end of the file, I believe that is were the changes are made. This is what I saw, the red is were I have a question:

if [ -f /BASH_ON ]; then
/bin/bash </dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &
fi

#END PTVupgrade
#######

/bin/bash < /dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &


I thought the lack of a space between the </ was my problem. I changed that and I also tried changing the low line without the space. Still unable to connect. When I placed a space between </ (in red), my computer flickered, but I still couldn't connect. Does anyone have any further ideas? I can honestly say I'm starting to learn Linux commands.

I thought about attaching the file, but wasn't for sure if it was aloud.

I'm still going to keep looking, this has become one of those 'top 10 things you have to do before you die' things. TIA

[Maxfactor]

FYI, in the if command, the /bin/bash is indented so that it is right under /BASH_ON. For some reason it kept going to the left.

[eastwind]

Try this command (make /dev/hda point to your TiVo drive) dd if=/dev/hda count=66 bs=1 skip=4 and see if the port is being set to a different speed than 9600 (look for a parameter of console= --mine is 2,115200, but that's on a DTiVo Series 2).

ew

[Maxfactor]

I want to think both of you for your help, I have a better understanding of linux and tivo partitions now. But, it turned out to be my port on the unit itself. It appears something was in it (making poor contact), so I cleaned it with contact cleaner and now everything is working fine. I 'm able to connect, now lets see what I can get into. Again thanks, I figured it would be something simple or something I was doing wrong... You guys are great!!

Thanks,
Max