TiVoHD Bootpage Help

[kwan888]

Hi All,

Newbie here. Just wanted to thank everyone on this forum for making everything so informative and relatively easy to follow.

Long story short, I need help with the correct command for boot page to disable my TiVoHD from automatically updating. Following all the guides here and searching, I've been able to get my TiVoHD PROM-hacked (thanks omikron!) and disable the CCI byte.

However, everything I've tried with the bootpage thus far results in the HDD unable to book (cycles at the "Powering up..." screen).

Through the forums I have tried the following through MFSLive (active partition on sda4):

bootpage -P "root=/dev/sda4 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware=false" /dev/sda

and also

bootpage -P "root=/dev/sda4 dsscon=true console=1,115200 upgradesoftware=false" /dev/sda

Each time I've tried either of the commands, the HDD will not boot the TiVoHD. The only hack I've applied is the CCI hack. Do I need to enable another hack for the bootpage mod to work correctly?

Thanks for all the help! Spending days reading this forum has helped a lot!

[jt1134]

bootpage -P "root=/dev/sda4 dsscon=true console=1,115200 upgradesoftware=false" /dev/sda

bootpage -P "root=/dev/hda4 dsscon=true console=1,115200 upgradesoftware=false" -C /dev/sda

The drive is always hda while 'inside' the tivo. Serial port is mapped to ttyS1 on the S3 units.

Do I need to enable another hack for the bootpage mod to work correctly?

nope. you can set some options via bootpage even with a completely unhacked box. all the bootpage params do is set the kernel command line.

[kwan888]

Thanks for the super-quick reply, jt1134! I'll definitely give that a shot here.

Thanks also for all of your informative posts. Read a lot of them over the last couple weeks.