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It is probably not the file that is read-only. It is probably the file system. You need to remount the file system as read-write:


mount -o remount,rw /

Be sure to remount it read-only when...

Please do me a favor and fix your tagline. It should be either:

2. You're going to have to open the TiVo voiding your warranty.

or else:

2. You are going to have to open the TiVo voiding...

DO NOT USE NOTEPAD!!!!!!!

Ever.

Use a decent editor. In particular never try to use Notepad (or wordpad, or whatever) to try to edit a Linux or Mac file. If you must use a Windows editor, use...

What version of Windows are you running?

I might suggest you add tserver to the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author file so it runs automatically.

Um, no, it isn't. \var\hack is not a valid path in Linux. /var/hack is. It looks like you have it correct in your configuration, however.

Have you read the docs in my signature? Is 192.168.1.6...

Well, first of all, where is tserver on your TiVo? If it is not in /var/hack, then you will never be able to start tserver from the TyTool menu. That will have nothing to do with automatically...

You're welcome.

You are trying to place a 2T image on a 1T drive? I'm not surprised at the segfault. A segmentation faulty is an attempt to access an invalid memory location. My guess is the OS is trying to...

One definitely needs to understand fully what is going on, because the above commands are definitely not the ones anyone other than me is likely to employ. It's really not that difficult, but one...

Well, there are a number of ways. If the existing hard drive has a few hundred Megs available, it makes it a lot easier. If not, then unless you want to go to a great deal of trouble, it will...

Which is a good reason to expand partitions 2 and 5 and mount one of them under /var/hack. That way it should not get whacked when the TiVo rebuilds /var. I make partition 5 a mirror of partition 2...

Putting upgradesoftware=false in the boot parms should prevent the upgade from proceeding, but the unit will still reboot every morning in an attempt to upgrade. The NoThanks hack will prevent the...

I decided to post my changes to mike's scripts for comparison.
Here is my postinstall, which has a version of my hack_tivoapp script incorporated into it:


#!/bin/bash...

It's complaining it can't close the root partition for write access (making it read-only), because there is a file handle open for writing. Do you have a file open for editing? If so, close it and...

No, the PROM turns control over to the kernel once it approves of it, and should have no influence on operations after that until the next boot. That's from a software perspective. If a couple of...

The system is not finding the file. That leads me to believe there is a space, a tab, or some other invisible character in the filename. For example:


RAID-Server:/tmp# touch "test "...

Type

ls -l

and report the results. Unless you have changed the hacks.fil contents (removed all existing hack values and added at least one new set), however, there is no point in running...

The bootpage utility was included in the sample tarballs. On one of my TiVos:


LivingRoom:/# bootpage -p /dev/hda
root=/dev/hda7 updatesoftware=false

...

Well, the default is /var/hack:


HackFile=/var/hack/hacks.fil
They can go anywhere you like, as long as the value of HackFile is properly updated.


That depends on your FTP client,...

Yes, of course. Nothing can be done to a drive that is not attached. Whether running on the PC or on the TiVo, the drive has to be attached to the active device.


No, not at all. Look at the...

Partitions - plural - actually. At least two of them, probably four, and not unlikely to be six.


LivingRoom:/# pdisk -l /dev/hda

stat: mode = 060660, type=Block
size = 0, blocks = 0...

If you ran the hack_tivo script, and it was successful, then it is not necessary to run the hack_tivoapp script manually. Look at the very last two lines of the hack_tivo script. It calls...

You can do it from any machine. The Linux one is fine. Presumably the Mac includes telnet and ftp clients. If not, you can obtain them. The first thing to try is open an X-Term and type

telnet...

That depends on what hacks you have implemented so far. Generally, the first two hacks are telnet and ftp. See if you can telnet into the box and / or see if you can transfer a file via ftp.

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Any code files which run on the system must be flagged as executable, or the kernel will not attempt to run them. The chmod utility changes the permissions for a file. The user permissions are a...