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DocTauri
10-13-2006, 06:24 PM
I was just messing around with 6.3a and decided to try to load it on an SD unit. Interestingly, the unit will come on ("Powering Up"), then the drive will go "clunk", then give me the password prompt. For fun, I pulled out the "brev=" from the bootpage, but still no joy.

Does anyone have any idea why this would fail at such an early stage? Incidentally, I then pulled the drive out and put it directly into an HR10-250 and it booted up just fine (even w/o the "brev=").

Doc
Jamie
10-13-2006, 06:54 PM
I was just messing around with 6.3a and decided to try to load it on an SD unit. Interestingly, the unit will come on ("Powering Up"), then the drive will go "clunk", then give me the password prompt. For fun, I pulled out the "brev=" from the bootpage, but still no joy.

Does anyone have any idea why this would fail at such an early stage? Incidentally, I then pulled the drive out and put it directly into an HR10-250 and it booted up just fine (even w/o the "brev=").

DocAny chance the kernel on the disk is above the lba28 mark (137GB)? It probably is on a stock hdtivo image.

The older S2 boxes didn't have lba48 support in the PROM, so the kernel they boot has to be below 137GB on disk.
DocTauri
10-13-2006, 07:07 PM
According to the partition map, hda7 is at 128MB, and is 4MB in size, so max would be 132MB. Also, this is a newer RID unit, does it have the same restriction?
Jamie
10-13-2006, 07:25 PM
According to the partition map, hda7 is at 128MB, and is 4MB in size, so max would be 132MB. Also, this is a new RID unit, does it have the same restriction?
128MB or 128GB or 128GiB? I have a feeling we may be mixing up units here. Post the partition map. The magic value, in sectors, is 268435456. The kernel has to be below that point. I don't think the root needs to be, as long as the kernel is lba48 aware, but I'm not certain of that.

The limit is at 128GiB (equivalently, 137GB), so you might be right above the limit.
Narf54321
10-13-2006, 07:56 PM
Another thought (just a shot in the dark, really): Doesn't the kernel handle initializing the tuners, and they'd be totally wrong from an HD unit to a standard def unit. Not sure it would bomb out to the prom prompt, but just a thought...
cheer
10-13-2006, 08:07 PM
Another thought (just a shot in the dark, really): Doesn't the kernel handle initializing the tuners, and they'd be totally wrong from an HD unit to a standard def unit. Not sure it would bomb out to the prom prompt, but just a thought...
Don't think so...otherwise I wouldn't be able to use the 7.2.2-oth-K1 kernel on my HR10-250. :)
DocTauri
10-13-2006, 08:17 PM
128MB or 128GB or 128GiB? I have a feeling we may be mixing up units here. Post the partition map. The magic value, in sectors, is 268435456. The kernel has to be below that point. I don't think the root needs to be, as long as the kernel is lba48 aware, but I'm not certain of that.

The limit is at 128GiB (equivalently, 137GB), so you might be right above the limit.

Sorry, meant GB. Partition map says hda7 is at 269159143, so yes, it looks like I'm just a red one above that. Hmmmm...