Hacking your Series 2 DTivo just got a WHOLE lot easier...

[Gunnyman]

ok basically I would like to hack 2 drives (1-250GB and 1-200GB) that I will install each drive to each of my Philips DSR704 unit (1 704 unit with the 250GB drive and the other with the 200GB drive), can I install "The Zipper" and "Enhancement Script" hacks to both drives at the same time, instead of hacking each drive separately, in other words,
hda-Tivo Drive(DSR704 with 6.2 image)
hdb-250GB drive(new)
hdc-200GB drive(new)
hdd-CD-RW drive(tools CD)
is that possible? thanks
you have to run them 1 at a time

[bnm81002]

I figured that would be the answer :( thanks Gunny

[dkchandler]

That adapter is not compatible with tivo.

IT WORKS!!!!!
I purchased the FA120, plugged it in and Bam! TivoWebPlus and telnet are working!
I guess it helps to have the right hardware..... :o

DC

[joshhuggins]

Hi guys. First thanks to Gunnyman & Rbautch for their hard work. Now I need help getting it to work :(

I started with a Hughes DVR80 3.x system. Downloaded the latest PTV 6.2 for my unit and copied the image from the PTV disc it to the Tools/Zipper CD disk. I ran zipper, and had it try to install the 6.2 image. It runs and says everything loaded fine. I re-installed back in to the DVR80 and it gets stuck in a reboot loop at the "Welcome, Powering Up" screen. I then pulled the drive back out loaded the 6.2 image from the PTV image from their disk, installed it back into the DVR80 box, it boots fine. I then did a clear and delete everything as per PTV instructions. It reboots fine and runs great with the 6.2 software. So I then pulled it out again, and ran the zipper w/o loading the image on the zipper disc, zipper reports success. Back in the DVR80 box, and get the reboot loop again. I did a search in this thread but couldn't find any one with this error. Any ideas? TIA for any help. :D So clooose I can smell it. And it smells sweet :D

P.S. - One other question, I don't have my Comcast broadband hooked up yet, will I be able to activate the Tivo service via the USB/Ethernet adapter once things are working?

[Gunnyman]

99.99% of the time, welcome powering up reboots are due to the kernel copy step copying the incorect kernel.
Did you use the 3.1.5 kernel off the "5 dollah" boot disc?
as for activation, fakecall takes care of that as far as the "needs to call in 1st" goes. You still need to call dtv and add the unit to your account if it isn't there already.

[joshhuggins]

I think that might be it. It might have had to do with the way I added the kernel file. I had burned the disc, missed reading that step. I realized I had forgot it, and then I added the file to the disk. Maybe the second burn method was set wrong? If I burn a new fresh copy of the tools disk will it overwrite the bad kernel that is there? Or will it see the existing copy and skip that step? Seems like when I re-ran zipper I noticed that it seemed quicker and maybe it's skipping overwriting the kernel from the PTV image? Is there a way to force the kernel to overwrite?

Edit: I used the 3_1.5 kernal not the 3_1.5C or the 4_.01A. Is that correct?

[Gunnyman]

yes it will over write just fine.

[joshhuggins]

Going over my steps againg. I pulled the file out of the .iso file using ISOBuster application. Now looking back at ISObuster, I now see that there is a differance in the files listed in the ISO section of the disc and the RR section in reguards to the kernal file.

In the ISO section (where I got my file) it's shows the file VMLINUX_.GZ
In the RR section, it shows a VMLINUX.px.gz

Should I have used the VMLINUX.px.gz file? I will take the file from the actual burned disc to avoid anymore confusion and see how that works.

http://www.hugginsfam.com/dd/ss/isobuster.png

[Gunnyman]

Going over my steps againg. I pulled the file out of the .iso file using ISOBuster application. Now looking back at ISObuster, I now see that there is a differance in the files listed in the ISO section of the disc and the RR section in reguards to the kernal file.

In the ISO section (where I got my file) it's shows the file VMLINUX_.GZ
In the RR section, it shows a VMLINUX.px.gz

Should I have used the VMLINUX.px.gz file? I will take the file from the actual burned disc to avoid anymore confusion and see how that works.

http://www.hugginsfam.com/dd/ss/isobuster.png
the files SHOULD be the same since the filename is truncated due to the way Windows interprets some Linux iso's.
But taking from the burned disc will work just fine.

[ricosuave]

It reboots twice a week with cron. Any more than that could be a symptom of a failing hard drive...or many other things.

Its rebooting about twice a day in addition to the scheduled reboots. Let's say I wanted to scrap everything and start from scratch, what is the easiest way to accomplish this? I still have the original 40 gb drive stashed away in case that helps.

[joshhuggins]

I'll post tomarrow to let everyone know if it worked (incase anyone cares, and goofs up like I did :rolleyes: ) And Gunnyman, your avatar makes me smile too. It's a beacon of hope in a non-HMO world. Thanks so much for your hardwork and patience. :up: :up: way up!

[SBI]

Well, I zipped a new drive, got the "success" message, connected the new drive to the TiVo and fired it up. It is stuck for a looooong time in the grey "Welcome, Powering Up" screen. I cannot hear the hard drive working, however few seconds after powering up the 'Power' led on the Netgear USB adapter came up, which means it gets power, but it is not communicating with the route.
I copied (or shall I say - Zipper did) the 6.2 software from the old drive.

Any suggestion?

Thanks.

[ttodd1]

Did you jumper the new drive correctly before you put it in the Tivo?

[SBI]

Did you jumper the new drive correctly before you put it in the Tivo?

Yes, it is CS, just like the original drive. I also tried with Master - same thing.

(small update - the router is identifying the TiVo, it was a CAT5 issue).

I re-run zipper - same thing...stuck in the "Welcome" screen. How long should it take to boot up? Maybe I don't have patience, but it looks odd...it sits like this for over 10 minutes.

[rbautch]

Its rebooting about twice a day in addition to the scheduled reboots. Let's say I wanted to scrap everything and start from scratch, what is the easiest way to accomplish this? I still have the original 40 gb drive stashed away in case that helps. Run the Zipper on the 40 gig drive.

[ttodd1]

Yes, it is CS, just like the original drive. I also tried with Master - same thing.

(small update - the router is identifying the TiVo, it was a CAT5 issue).

I re-run zipper - same thing...stuck in the "Welcome" screen. How long should it take to boot up? Maybe I don't have patience, but it looks odd...it sits like this for over 10 minutes.

If you are sure the jumper is correct then you need to check the cables. 10 minutes is too long.

[SBI]

If you are sure the jumper is correct then you need to check the cables. 10 minutes is too long.

The cables are fine. I reconnected the original drive and it boots up OK. It seems like something is wrong with the hack.
I run it three times. CD-ROM was HDA, original drive HDC and new drive HDD. I don't have the sw 6.2 on the CD because I have it on the original drive.
During zipp I got the following info:
Root Filesystem is located on /dev/hdc4
Boot Partition /dev/hdc3

Don't know if this tells you anything.

Any idea?

P.s. is there a way to look at the dirve and its content in Windows... :o ?

Edit: Now I am really confused. As I mentioned I put the original drive back (the 40GB) and I see that the FA120 is "alive". So I telnet to the TiVo and guess what I am getting - bash-2.02#
How the hell can this be? Aren't the USB ports suppose to be "locked"?

[Gunnyman]

SBI as I told someone else today 99.99% of the time, the problem you are having results from grabbing the wrong kernel from the 5 dollar boot disk.
Make absoutly sure your tools disk has the kernel from the 3.1.5 folder from the BOOT CD.

[SBI]

SBI as I told someone else today 99.99% of the time, the problem you are having results from grabbing the wrong kernel from the 5 dollar boot disk.
Make absoutly sure your tools disk has the kernel from the 3.1.5 folder from the BOOT CD.

Yes, the file VMLINUX_.GZ is in the tool disk.

[Gunnyman]

that's the thing every kernel on that disc, and there are several, is called VMLINUX_.GZ

[Gunnyman]

The cables are fine. I reconnected the original drive and it boots up OK. It seems like something is wrong with the hack.
I run it three times. CD-ROM was HDA, original drive HDC and new drive HDD. I don't have the sw 6.2 on the CD because I have it on the original drive.
During zipp I got the following info:
Root Filesystem is located on /dev/hdc4
Boot Partition /dev/hdc3

Don't know if this tells you anything.

Any idea?

P.s. is there a way to look at the dirve and its content in Windows... :o ?

Edit: Now I am really confused. As I mentioned I put the original drive back (the 40GB) and I see that the FA120 is "alive". So I telnet to the TiVo and guess what I am getting - bash-2.02#
How the hell can this be? Aren't the USB ports suppose to be "locked"?
I bet you zippered your factory drive and not the other one :p

[SBI]

I bet you zippered your factory drive and not the other one :p

I don't know how that could happen, I did exactly as the instruction said.
Oh, well. At least I didn't loose my recordings :)

Can you look at my previous post and tell me if I connected the drives correct?

[Gunnyman]

did you back up your image from the 40 gig drive then restore it to the new one?
Or were both drives connected to your PC when you ran Zipper?
Zipper DOES NOT backup from old drive and restore to new. Hinsdale's guide (linked in the INSTRUCTIONS) covers that.

[SBI]

that's the thing every kernel on that disc, and there are several, is called VMLINUX_.GZ

That's the only one I have. I am 100% sure I copied the correct one from the "$5 CD".

[SBI]

did you back up your image from the 40 gig drive then restore it to the new one?
Or were both drives connected to your PC when you ran Zipper?
Zipper DOES NOT backup from old drive and restore to new. Hinsdale's guide (linked in the INSTRUCTIONS) covers that.


Both drives were connected when I run Zipper... :confused:

[SBI]

:confused:

[Gunnyman]

ummm
ok
like I said you zippered your factory drive. It is UP TO YOU to back up your factory drive and restore it to a larger one if you want to preserve recordings....
This is covered in the directions. No harm done though. look here.
http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php

[Gunnyman]

ok night shift take over I'm going to bed....

[rbautch]

:confused: It's not stuck, it just takes a few minutes. Patience is a virtue.

[SBI]

OK, many thanks Gunny and rbautch....have a good night sleep, I'll probably need you again on Thursday (Lost tomorrow, Tivo must be connected :) ).

Good night, and again - Thanks!!

[k_yarina]

I replaced the 40 in my "new" DVR4ME with a 320GB WD and zippered (Thanks!) it, and found a problem with channel prefs backups - trying to backup my channel list gets an error:

Saving current Receive and Favorite flag settings to "/tivowebplus/backups/channelprefs_save", please wait......

ERROR - Could not open file "/tivowebplus/backups/channelprefs_save" for writing


It looks like /tivowebplus is mounted in a read-only filesystem, so the backups won't work. Any fix? I'd sure like this to work, so I could sync the channel lists between my HDVR2s.

[rbautch]

I replaced the 40 in my "new" DVR4ME with a 320GB WD and zippered (Thanks!) it, and found a problem with channel prefs backups - trying to backup my channel list gets an error:

Saving current Receive and Favorite flag settings to "/tivowebplus/backups/channelprefs_save", please wait......

ERROR - Could not open file "/tivowebplus/backups/channelprefs_save" for writing


It looks like /tivowebplus is mounted in a read-only filesystem, so the backups won't work. Any fix? I'd sure like this to work, so I could sync the channel lists between my HDVR2s.
type rw at bash

[cjs226]

I'm assuming even after running the zipper, using applications such as Galleon are still out of touch as we're still not running v7 of the Tivo OS?

[Gunnyman]

you assume correctly

[classic079]

Alright... I've been using zipper a few days and I have a few questions... How do I make the drive read/writeable right now its read only.. tried chmod but did nothing for me.

Why when sometimes when I go to now play list its black and I have to hold up or down untill it finaly finds my recorded shows. Thanks, John

[Gunnyman]

for read write do rw from bash
change it back with ro
for teh empty looking now playing list check the faq on http://zipperwiki.thewallens.net

[chubb]

http://zipperwiki.thewallens.net

I posted a couple of suggestions on the Zipperwiki.

On a somewhat-related note, is it okay to post/ask questions, I guess not directly related to the zipper, but as a result of the functionality of the hacked tivo provided by the zipper, on the zipperwiki? i.e. is it okay to ask questions about the "topic we are not allowed to discuss here" on the zipperwiki?

It would be immensely helpful (I would imagine to rbautch and gunny) to just point people to the zipperwiki for all the follow-up questions that usually end up on this thread.... or for that matter the "other forum" which has so much information but not in a consolidated fashion...

Dunno... just makng suggestions. If there are obvious reasons or I am overstepping some bounds that I don't know of, please let me know and I will drop it.

-chubb

[pendragn]

I've noticed some strangeness with the Zipper. Once zippering ignored my static IP and used DHCP when I put the drive into the TiVo. Another didn't. From my very limited testing, and from another friend's experiences, it seems that this stems from what kind of NIC is used. The old Belkin NIC disregarded the stuff I put into zipper.sh and used DHCP once in the TiVo. The USM200M v1 did not. All of this was pre tweak.sh. Am I imaging things or is this expected behavior?

tk

[Gunnyman]

I posted a couple of suggestions on the Zipperwiki.

On a somewhat-related note, is it okay to post/ask questions, I guess not directly related to the zipper, but as a result of the functionality of the hacked tivo provided by the zipper, on the zipperwiki? i.e. is it okay to ask questions about the "topic we are not allowed to discuss here" on the zipperwiki?

It would be immensely helpful (I would imagine to rbautch and gunny) to just point people to the zipperwiki for all the follow-up questions that usually end up on this thread.... or for that matter the "other forum" which has so much information but not in a consolidated fashion...

Dunno... just makng suggestions. If there are obvious reasons or I am overstepping some bounds that I don't know of, please let me know and I will drop it.

-chubb
The Only restriction I have put on the Wiki is discussion of Service Theft of any kind.
Of course we can talk about that word that rhymes with distraction. :)

[Finnstang]

I've noticed some strangeness with the Zipper. Once zippering ignored my static IP and used DHCP when I put the drive into the TiVo. Another didn't. From my very limited testing, and from another friend's experiences, it seems that this stems from what kind of NIC is used. The old Belkin NIC disregarded the stuff I put into zipper.sh and used DHCP once in the TiVo. The USM200M v1 did not. All of this was pre tweak.sh. Am I imaging things or is this expected behavior?

tk
I have done four DTiVos now all using FA120s. The first two I did, used DHCP during the first boot, then switched to the static that I had assigned after being rebooted, but the second two used their static IPs immediately.

[rbautch]

I've noticed some strangeness with the Zipper. Once zippering ignored my static IP and used DHCP when I put the drive into the TiVo. Another didn't. From my very limited testing, and from another friend's experiences, it seems that this stems from what kind of NIC is used. The old Belkin NIC disregarded the stuff I put into zipper.sh and used DHCP once in the TiVo. The USM200M v1 did not. All of this was pre tweak.sh. Am I imaging things or is this expected behavior?

tkIt's not expected. One possibility is that you connected to the tivo without rebooting it first, which doesn't give the network script a chance to set your IP parameters permanently in MFS. If you don't mind pulling a drive, give it a test with the lastest Zipper, which will reboot your tivo automatically after the initial boot up.

[pendragn]

It's not expected. One possibility is that you connected to the tivo without rebooting it first, which doesn't give the network script a chance to set your IP parameters permanently in MFS. If you don't mind pulling a drive, give it a test with the lastest Zipper, which will reboot your tivo automatically after the initial boot up.
The machine in question, and the Belkin NIC are a buddy's and after setting it up I returned it to him. I have a couple of HDVR2s at home that I could do with the Linksys adapters.

Would it be possible to add a "use dhcp" option in zipper.sh? I use DHCP with reservations on all my TiVos at home so I really don't like being forced to put IPs in. It's a great option, but I don't like it being mandatory.

tk

[chubb]

The Only restriction I have put on the Wiki is discussion of Service Theft of any kind.
Of course we can talk about that word that rhymes with distraction. :)

Cool. Will keep that in mind when posting here or on the Wiki.

[rbautch]

The machine in question, and the Belkin NIC are a buddy's and after setting it up I returned it to him. I have a couple of HDVR2s at home that I could do with the Linksys adapters.

Would it be possible to add a "use dhcp" option in zipper.sh? I use DHCP with reservations on all my TiVos at home so I really don't like being forced to put IPs in. It's a great option, but I don't like it being mandatory.

tk It's easy enough to change back to dhcp using TWP once you're up and running. I just wanted to head off the "how to I find my IP address" questions.

[pendragn]

It's easy enough to change back to dhcp using TWP once you're up and running. I just wanted to head off the "how to I find my IP address" questions.
The problem is that at least once for me, and once for a buddy we were forced to put in an IP and the machine used DHCP anyway, which lead to "how do I find my IP address." Only now it's more frustrating because I was forced to do something I didn't want to and it didn't work as well as the thing I wanted to do in the first place. Both times it defaulted to DHCP (the thing I wanted in the first place) was with the Belkin NIC. It didn't seem to do that with the Linksys NIC. Both my buddy and I saw this behavior.

tk

[SBI]

look here. http://tivo.upgrade-instructions.com/index.php

Gunny, does this option saves all recordings from the old drive, or do I have to use the long option in the Hinsdale one in order to preserve recordings?

[Gunnyman]

just step thru it you get customized directions based on your situation.

[SBI]

just step thru it you get customized directions based on your situation.

Thanks Gunny.

[rbautch]

The problem is that at least once for me, and once for a buddy we were forced to put in an IP and the machine used DHCP anyway, which lead to "how do I find my IP address." Only now it's more frustrating because I was forced to do something I didn't want to and it didn't work as well as the thing I wanted to do in the first place. Both times it defaulted to DHCP (the thing I wanted in the first place) was with the Belkin NIC. It didn't seem to do that with the Linksys NIC. Both my buddy and I saw this behavior.

tkIf IP parameters are set in MFS, it won't use DHCP no matter what adapter you use. If a DHCP address was assigned, that means that the network script never ran, or it ran and you didn't reboot before trying to connect. You can confirm that it ran by checking for a file in /hacks called mfs_network.

[kimsan]

The Only restriction I have put on the Wiki is discussion of Service Theft of any kind.
Of course we can talk about that word that rhymes with distraction. :)

LOL! I'll try to help on that if I can. Input from a succesful newbie/HR10-250 owner might be useful.

[pendragn]

If IP parameters are set in MFS, it won't use DHCP no matter what adapter you use.
Since the zipper.sh part only writes to rc.sysinit.author I assume that any IP information I enter when zipper.sh asks ends up there and has no chance of being in the MFS.


If a DHCP address was assigned, that means that the network script never ran, or it ran and you didn't reboot before trying to connect. You can confirm that it ran by checking for a file in /hacks called mfs_network.
I can verify that after putting the zippered drive into the TiVo we attempted to access it immediately, we did not power the TiVo up, then unplug it, power it up again and telnet in. I guess I didn't know we were supposed to power cycle it once before running tweak.sh.

tk

[rbautch]

Since the zipper.sh part only writes to rc.sysinit.author I assume that any IP information I enter when zipper.sh asks ends up there and has no chance of being in the MFS. It puts a command in your author file to run the network.tcl script with the aguments you just entered. As soon as you boot for the first time, the author file runs the network script and puts the params in MFS. However, those MFS settings are not active until the tivo reboots. I figured out a way to make the tivo reboot automatically, so unplugging and replugging is no longer necessary to force that initial reboot.

I can verify that after putting the zippered drive into the TiVo we attempted to access it immediately, we did not power the TiVo up, then unplug it, power it up again and telnet in. I guess I didn't know we were supposed to power cycle it once before running tweak.sh. There you go!

[joshhuggins]

Going over my steps againg. I pulled the file out of the .iso file using ISOBuster application. Now looking back at ISObuster, I now see that there is a differance in the files listed in the ISO section of the disc and the RR section in reguards to the kernel file.

In the ISO section (where I got my file) it's shows the file VMLINUX_.GZ
In the RR section, it shows a VMLINUX.px.gz

Should I have used the VMLINUX.px.gz file? I will take the file from the actual burned disc to avoid anymore confusion and see how that works.


Well, I took the kernel from the burned disk, and the system boot properly. Now I am getting the "Input / Output error" when I try to cd/ to the hacks directory. I can see the hacks directory at the bash prompt, and can cd to other directories, up to a root area, and back and forth, but I can't get into the hacks directory. I can now FTP to the tivo's IP, but no sign of a hacks directory. I searched and saw a few others have had this problem, but they didn't say how they fixed it. Any ideas guys?

[redmars]

rbautch,

I thank you very much for the Zipper. The install of my drive went great.

I wanted to ask you about updates to applications that are new now and others that soon will come out. I found that hackman is 4.0.2 in the zipper install on the authors site he has 4.1.0. I'm just figuring out all the modules that are installed.

Can I simply remove the current hackman and replace it with the new version? Or simply run your uninstall script and then rerun the new script when you come out with a new update to the zipper.

I see that the TWP will have a new version 1.2.2 soon but don't know when.

Again Thank you very much for all your hard work.

-RM

[rbautch]

Well, I took the kernel from the burned disk, and the system boot properly. Now I am getting the "Input / Output error" when I try to cd/ to the hacks directory. I can see the hacks directory at the bash prompt, and can cd to other directories, up to a root area, and back and forth, but I can't get into the hacks directory. I can now FTP to the tivo's IP, but no sign of a hacks directory. I searched and saw a few others have had this problem, but they didn't say how they fixed it. Any ideas guys? Not sure. Try starting over from scratch letting the Zipper install and image, and making sure the correct kernel is on the disk. If still no luck, try a different hard drive.

[rbautch]

rbautch,

I thank you very much for the Zipper. The install of my drive went great.

I wanted to ask you about updates to applications that are new now and others that soon will come out. I found that hackman is 4.0.2 in the zipper install on the authors site he has 4.1.0. I'm just figuring out all the modules that are installed.

Can I simply remove the current hackman and replace it with the new version? Or simply run your uninstall script and then rerun the new script when you come out with a new update to the zipper.

I see that the TWP will have a new version 1.2.2 soon but don't know when.

Again Thank you very much for all your hard work.

-RM Just replace the module, no need to uninstall.

[dylanursula]

You won't like the answers (out of order)....

2) Yes, you can Zipper first and add the adapter later. You may need to reboot after attaching the adapter.

1 & 3) If you need that level of instruction, you shouldn't try to do it. No step-by-step can account for every single variable you may encounter. If you really know nothing about Linux or IDE hardware configuration, or even command line level utilities, you will just run into trouble and end up with a non-booting TiVo.

Hey all.... last week I asked you guys for help and rightly so you told me to read some more. So I did... this whole thread. I already had good IDE and PC knowledge. just brushed up on FTP/Telnet and Linux and I can happily report that as of today I have zippered a new 160Gb drive.

Sure, I had some issues on the way.
1. My 000001 image would not work with zipper - so instead I applied the image first and then went back to Zipper/
2. Was having the clear line feeds issues and that resolved thanks to the right unclear settting first.

Just want to say a massive thanks to all..... esp :up: RB & Gunny :up: - you guys rock - I love you man (in a non sexual way....) :up:

Next questions, with all the hacks I did any pointers about learning about tivowebplus and what I need to learn about it and where? My drive is a clean fresh zipper virgin at this point :)

[HUGE2U]

I had previously hacked a HR10-250, and then ran the enhancement script and everything went fine. I then upgraded from 3.1.5 to 3.1.5d and kept all the hacks and all was well. Now I have lost all connectiivity to the box, including serial (meaning the Tivo still works, but no network or serial). So it looks like I have to pull the drive. My question is can I just run Zipper on it to re-install hacks and will it keep my recorded shows?

Thanks,

HUGE

[Gunnyman]

yes you only lose your shows if you WANT to :)

[pendragn]

It puts a command in your author file to run the network.tcl script with the aguments you just entered. As soon as you boot for the first time, the author file runs the network script and puts the params in MFS. However, those MFS settings are not active until the tivo reboots. I figured out a way to make the tivo reboot automatically, so unplugging and replugging is no longer necessary to force that initial reboot.
Okay, cool. Glad we got that all figured out, it was bugging me. Now, any chance we can get a "use DHCP" option when running zipper.sh? :)

tk

[Tonedeaf]

Still getting "could not open connection to the host, on port 23" when I try to telnet with my Tivo.

I am able to use ftp to get to it, also able to use TWP with it. Is there any reason why I shouldn't be able to use telnet to it?

[Gunnyman]

telnet may not be running for some reason.
do you have hackman installed in TWP?
if so, is telnet listed in the main menu and does it say start? or stop? if it says start, then start it.
If it says stop, you have somethng blocking port 23 on your network

[Tonedeaf]

telnet may not be running for some reason.
do you have hackman installed in TWP?
if so, is telnet listed in the main menu and does it say start? or stop? if it says start, then start it.
If it says stop, you have somethng blocking port 23 on your network
Will have to check when I get home. Thanks.
If I don't have hackman installed in TWP how do I install it?

[Gunnyman]

download the hackman module (referenced in this forum) and follow the directions.
:)

[Tonedeaf]

download the hackman module (referenced in this forum) and follow the directions.
:)
Thanks for your help. :up:

[SBI]

First TiVo is now upgraded and hacked. Thank you!!

However, I do have a small problem - the Advance button on the remote doesn't work...it does not "fast forwarding and/or rewinding" :(

[Gunnyman]

it's now a permanent 30 second skip button
turn it off with select play select 3 0 select.

[SBI]

it's now a permanent 30 second skip button
turn it off with select play select 3 0 select.

Is this part of the "backdoor codes"?

[Gunnyman]

yep

[SBI]

yep

OK, I'll check it out tonight.
Where can I find some kind of a list of all other things that were changed by default?

[Gunnyman]

the readme file in the tools disk download :p

[SBI]

the readme file in the tools disk download :p

Thanks Gunny!

[twh3842]

telnet may not be running for some reason.
do you have hackman installed in TWP?
if so, is telnet listed in the main menu and does it say start? or stop? if it says start, then start it.
If it says stop, you have somethng blocking port 23 on your network

I am having the same problem. I just zippered my Direct Tivo DVR40 and I'm getting the same message when I try to telnet in. You asked ToneDeaf if he had hackman installed in TWP. STUPID QUESTION WARNING!!! What is TWP?

[Tonedeaf]

I am having the same problem. I just zippered my Direct Tivo DVR40 and I'm getting the same message when I try to telnet in. You asked ToneDeaf if he had hackman installed in TWP. STUPID QUESTION WARNING!!! What is TWP?
TivoWebPlus.
In a browser, type in the IP address of your tivo. I was so excited when I finally figured that one out. :)

[twh3842]

When asked to enter the IP address for the tivo I entered the address used as an example in the installation instructions (not knowing the actual IP address). Now that it is up and running I can see the address in my DCHP settings for my router. Do I need to re-zipper and use the correct IP address or is there a way to change it after the fact?

[Tonedeaf]

When asked to enter the IP address for the tivo I entered the address used as an example in the installation instructions (not knowing the actual IP address). Now that it is up and running I can see the address in my DCHP settings for my router. Do I need to re-zipper and use the correct IP address or is there a way to change it after the fact?
Someone more knowledgable will answer, but I think you can change with TWP.

[Jolly1]

Sorry if this has been asked before - I've done a lot of searching and I can't find the answer.

I hacked my first tivo with the zipper. I used an IP address of 192.168.42.8, but this was an error - it should have been 192.168.1.8.

I was able to get into the box by setting up a private network and I changed the address via sh net-lauch.sh, but when the box boots it still has the 192.168.42.8 address. Here's the strange part - if I reboot again, it comes up with the correct address 192.168.1.8.

I've looked through the file system trying to find where 192.168.42.8 might still be listed, to no avail. Any help?

[twh3842]

TivoWebPlus.
In a browser, type in the IP address of your tivo. I was so excited when I finally figured that one out. :)

Thanks Tonedeaf,

I tried this but just got a message saying can't find it. Is TWP a windows application I need to install?

Tom

[Markman07]

No TWP is installed on your TIVO now after using the Zipper. You just use your Internet browser and browse to the IP of you TIVO BOX (which you setup when you ran zipper). If you used DHCP then you might have to look at your router's web/administration page to determine what IP is being assigned to your TIVO and then connect to it like http://192.168.1.190

[ttodd1]

TWP also has to be running on the DTivo.

[hyde76]

I zippered my new refurb finally last night when I could connect to it from my computer. I had recordings that I could not play after zippering. Is that a result of zippering with existing recordings? Also, I noticed that Standby was moved from DTV Central to Messages and Setup. Any way to move it back to DTV Central? If there is a FAQ please just point me to it.

[Gunnyman]

recordings should play just fine after zippering.
Are you getting an error message?

[ttodd1]

The standby "move" has been mentioned in this thread so a search on standby should point you in the right direction.

[hyde76]

When I tried to play a recording directly after zippering there was no message I can recall, it just looked like it jumped to the end of the program though it never went into the program and asked if I wanted to delete the recording. Very odd and did it for all 3 recordings I had. I started a new recording and it worked and played fine so I figured something in the zipper changed the status of the recordings. no big deal, just have to zipper before recording anything. now to find standby move...

[Gunnyman]

look on ddb for superpatchstandby
there's a little script you run that moves it back to the main screen.

[hyde76]

Thanks!

[ttodd1]

look on ddb for superpatchstandby
there's a little script you run that moves it back to the main screen.

I kinda thought that but was too lazy to look - but hey I did remember it was mentioned..... :D

[Gunnyman]

yes yes you did :p

[hyde76]

It's superpatch67standby.tcl for anyone interested. I'll try it tonight. Those that have tried it appear to be pleased with what it did.

[MartyBoy00]

I have a couple of questions before I get started on this. (I upgrade my Ultimate TV years ago.. and actually put in a larger hard drive on my Hughes HDVR2 a couple years ago... so these are probably gonna sound stupid, but I think I can do it).

(1)Once I complete The Zipper (which is very cool)

[Gunnyman]

It's superpatch67standby.tcl for anyone interested. I'll try it tonight. Those that have tried it appear to be pleased with what it did.
yep that's teh one I used and it worked great!

[MartyBoy00]

Note.. never hit tab in your message or it ends...

ok... so (1) Once I complete the Zipper, would I be able to not only network within my house and my TiVo's, but also with other TiVo's that have had the Zipper run on them that are on the Internet...? (for instance, I can pull up my programs on other TiVo's in the house.. could I pull them up from my friend in Dallas?)

(2) Let's say I have 3 TiVo's.... could I buy 3 160 GB HardDrives... do the steps on each hard drive.. and then replace the hard drives in each unit with the one I have created?

It really does sound 100 times easier than just upgrading was last time. (I added a second drive to my TiVo). It almost sounds "too" easy and with almost no risk at all if you aren't doing anything to your TiVo drive but removing the original and putting this one in after you run The Zipper)

Thanks so much.. !!!

[Gunnyman]

Note.. never hit tab in your message or it ends...

ok... so (1) Once I complete the Zipper, would I be able to not only network within my house and my TiVo's, but also with other TiVo's that have had the Zipper run on them that are on the Internet...? (for instance, I can pull up my programs on other TiVo's in the house.. could I pull them up from my friend in Dallas?)

(2) Let's say I have 3 TiVo's.... could I buy 3 160 GB HardDrives... do the steps on each hard drive.. and then replace the hard drives in each unit with the one I have created?

It really does sound 100 times easier than just upgrading was last time. (I added a second drive to my TiVo). It almost sounds "too" easy and with almost no risk at all if you aren't doing anything to your TiVo drive but removing the original and putting this one in after you run The Zipper)

Thanks so much.. !!!
1) nope but that would be cool :)
2) yes
3) You're quite welcome

[twh3842]

OK I re-zippered the drive, entered the correct IP address and I can now get a bash prompt but when I run the "sh tweak.sh" command I get this message:

bash-2.02# cd /hacks
bash-2.02# dir
bash: dir: command not found
bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
tweak.sh: wget: command not found
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]:

Can anyone tell what is happening?

[twh3842]

Another problem is I can connect via telnet but not via TWP or FTP.

[twh3842]

OK I re-zippered the drive, entered the correct IP address and I can now get a bash prompt but when I run the "sh tweak.sh" command I get this message:

bash-2.02# cd /hacks
bash-2.02# dir
bash: dir: command not found
bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
tweak.sh: wget: command not found
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]:

Can anyone tell what is happening?


Gunnyman can you help me with this? I don't know anything about linux.

[pendragn]

Gunnyman can you help me with this? I don't know anything about linux.
Can anybody help or just Gunny?

Do you have the busybox tools installed? I think that's where wget comes from. Also, do an LS in that directory (instead of dir) and post what files are there. If the right files are there, tweaks.sh won't try to wget an update.

tk

[twh3842]

Can anybody help or just Gunny?

Do you have the busybox tools installed? I think that's where wget comes from. Also, do an LS in that directory (instead of dir) and post what files are there. If the right files are there, tweaks.sh won't try to wget an update.

tk

Thanks, I'll take help from anyone. I have tried the ls and dir and get the "command not found" message

I used the zipper cd I downloaded and I thought it should have all the files necessary. I must have done something wrong.

[twh3842]

When I re-ran the zipper I got some interesting messages. I wrote them down so here they are. Maybe this will mean something to you.

mkdir: Cannot create directory '/tivo/busybox': File exists
tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Only read 3408 bytes from archive/cdrom/tivotools.tar
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Disabling firewall...
Copying author file...
Creating flag for enhancements script...
Copying hacks to tivo drive...
mkdir: Cannot create directory '/tivo/hacks': File exists
Copying hacked kernel to tivo drive...
VMLINUX_.GZ: 40.4%--replaced with VMLINUX.

1+1 records in
1+1 records out

Please enter a static IP address for your Tivo:

After I entered the IP addresses I got the message:

Success! Your drive is now hacked. Install in your Tivo and boot

Any problems with this I should be concerned with?

[Willy]

Thank you for the Zipper tool. I have used MFSTools in the past to enlarge Dtivos but it was a while back and I'm a little rusty. But I did read through everything and it looks very doable. Thanks.

I am in the middle of trying to zipper my "new" refurbished HDVR2. I assembled the tools...$5 PTV 4.02 tools for the hacked kernel, I made the zipper disk. I pulled the drive from the HDVR2. It showed version 3.1.1e. I made a backup of it using mfstools from the PTV disk and I restored the backup image onto a new 300 GB drive. To test it, I put it back in and it was fine.

Now, onto Zipper. I zippered the drive and put it back into the Tivo, but I got a reboot loop on Welcome ... I could hear the HD rebooting about every 15 seconds. Hmm.. So I started from scratch. I restored my virgin image onto the 300 GB HD once more and it tested fine. Now I tried to rezipper again and I noticed that one of the messages said it detected the unit as an HR10-250. Is that the problem? Why would it think that? Is there any way to tell zipper that it is a HDRV2?

Following the 2nd zipper attempt, again I got the same reboot loop. I tried to follow the guide specifically but I could use a little help. Thanks.

[Gunnyman]

Thanks, I'll take help from anyone. I have tried the ls and dir and get the "command not found" message

I used the zipper cd I downloaded and I thought it should have all the files necessary. I must have done something wrong.
yep you need to build teh tools cd and add tivotool.tar and superpatch too.
go back and re-read the directions.

[twh3842]

yep you need to build teh tools cd and add tivotool.tar and superpatch too.
go back and re-read the directions.

There is a file calle tivotools.tar on the cd and superpatch-67all-Nutkase-1.1.tcl

Is the "s" in tivotools.tar incorrect?

[Gunnyman]

you have it correct

[twh3842]

you have it correct


OK so if my tools cd is correct then what else could be the problem?

[Gunnyman]

per http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3766359&&#post3766359
you are missing the rbautch_files.tgz
read the post right after the linked one.

[twh3842]

per http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3766359&&#post3766359
you are missing the rbautch_files.tgz
read the post right after the linked one.

It probably seems like I'm not doing the research to do this myself but I am. I've searched through the posts trying to figure out what the problem is but I'm not having any luck. I have read the post you referenced and made sure that I have the rbautch_files.tgz.

Let me list the files that are on the cd to avoid any confusion.
000001
bootpage
network.tcl
rbautch_files.tgz
rc.sysinit.author
set_mrv_name_67.tcl
superpatch-67all-nutkase-1.1.tcl
tivotools.tar
tweak.sh
tweak_uninstall.sh
VMLINUX_.GZ
zipper.sh

Am I missing something?

[kimsan]

Gunnyman,

I posted in response to your appeal for a guide in the Zipper Wiki (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) as ...um...a distraction.

Never used a Wiki before. Please let me know if you think I should clarify/correct/throw it away or whatever :)

Just trying to "pay it forward" a bit.

I gotta figure out this Wiki entry structure so I can do it more elegantly.

My thanks continue to be all Zippered up! :up:

[stevecon]

I ran Zipper on 4 Tivos & worked fine. The 5th unit - an RCA DVR40 went w/o a hitch until I installed in the Tivo. Stuck at "Powering Up" Ok, grabbed a 40G drive from a Hughes unit - Zippered it up, again, no problems. Installed in Tivo, booted up. I am unable to access via telnet. I reran the Zipper 2 more times, each time indicates its ready. I've got it connected to where a Zippered Tivo is connected - so the network should be good - status lights on the FA120 & router indicate connection. What did I miss??

Steve

[Gunnyman]

Gunnyman,

I posted in response to your appeal for a guide in the Zipper Wiki (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) as ...um...a distraction.

Never used a Wiki before. Please let me know if you think I should clarify/correct/throw it away or whatever :)

Just trying to "pay it forward" a bit.

I gotta figure out this Wiki entry structure so I can do it more elegantly.

My thanks continue to be all Zippered up! :up:
I saw it and Thanks
just (if you haven't yet) create an account and put sig/timestamp on your entries.

[kimsan]

I saw it and Thanks
just (if you haven't yet) create an account and put sig/timestamp on your entries.

I figured you *had* to have an account to post, so that's done. I'll tag it.

[Gunnyman]

It probably seems like I'm not doing the research to do this myself but I am. I've searched through the posts trying to figure out what the problem is but I'm not having any luck. I have read the post you referenced and made sure that I have the rbautch_files.tgz.

Let me list the files that are on the cd to avoid any confusion.
000001
bootpage
network.tcl
rbautch_files.tgz
rc.sysinit.author
set_mrv_name_67.tcl
superpatch-67all-nutkase-1.1.tcl
tivotools.tar
tweak.sh
tweak_uninstall.sh
VMLINUX_.GZ
zipper.sh

Am I missing something?
Looks good, scratching my head though.

[Gunnyman]

I ran Zipper on 4 Tivos & worked fine. The 5th unit - an RCA DVR40 went w/o a hitch until I installed in the Tivo. Stuck at "Powering Up" Ok, grabbed a 40G drive from a Hughes unit - Zippered it up, again, no problems. Installed in Tivo, booted up. I am unable to access via telnet. I reran the Zipper 2 more times, each time indicates its ready. I've got it connected to where a Zippered Tivo is connected - so the network should be good - status lights on the FA120 & router indicate connection. What did I miss??

Steve
Steve are you using a bridge, or a switch on that 5th unit? is it perhaps not connected to the same subnet as the rest of your network?

[twh3842]

Looks good, scratching my head though.

OK I think I may have figured it out. I downloaded the tivotools.tar file from DDB but it was called tivotools[1].tar.rar. I changed the name of this file to tivotools.tar thinking it was misnamed. Reading the post again it say to extract the tivotools.tar file from that. Is the .rar file an archive file and if so how do I extract it? Windows does not recognize the .rar extension.

Thanks Gunny for all of your help.

[Gunnyman]

a HA!

winrar :)

[stevecon]

Steve are you using a bridge, or a switch on that 5th unit? is it perhaps not connected to the same subnet as the rest of your network?

Right now, it's connected to the same router (192.168.0.3) my hr10-250 is on. The HR10-250 is 192.168.0.200, the trouble Tivo is 192.168.0.204.

Pinging 192.168.0.200 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.0.200: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.200: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.200: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.0.200: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.200:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:


Pinging 192.168.0.204 with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.0.204:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 3ms

???????

Thanks

[cjs226]

It appears /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten with the default statements following the scheduled reboot of my tivo last night.

1. Should I add some code into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author to rebuild resolv.conf upon bootup?
2. What else might have been overwritten?
3. How necessary are the scheduled reboots?

[willardcpa]

strevecon, I know about zip about networking. Pickup up most of what little I know from "hows this work". ;)
But that being said, is there a chance that address 204 is outside of the range your router will support??
Just remember I know about zip, just vaguely recalling some other comments I've read here.

[bnm81002]

Thank you for the Zipper tool. I have used MFSTools in the past to enlarge Dtivos but it was a while back and I'm a little rusty. But I did read through everything and it looks very doable. Thanks.

I am in the middle of trying to zipper my "new" refurbished HDVR2. I assembled the tools...$5 PTV 4.02 tools for the hacked kernel, I made the zipper disk. I pulled the drive from the HDVR2. It showed version 3.1.1e. I made a backup of it using mfstools from the PTV disk and I restored the backup image onto a new 300 GB drive. To test it, I put it back in and it was fine.

Now, onto Zipper. I zippered the drive and put it back into the Tivo, but I got a reboot loop on Welcome ... I could hear the HD rebooting about every 15 seconds. Hmm.. So I started from scratch. I restored my virgin image onto the 300 GB HD once more and it tested fine. Now I tried to rezipper again and I noticed that one of the messages said it detected the unit as an HR10-250. Is that the problem? Why would it think that? Is there any way to tell zipper that it is a HDRV2?

Following the 2nd zipper attempt, again I got the same reboot loop. I tried to follow the guide specifically but I could use a little help. Thanks.




The Zipper requires 6.2 software version, put the original drive back in the unit and force a phone call and see if it gets updated to 6.2 from 3.1.1e, it will eventually, just dunno when though, then you can go ahead and Zipper it

[TechniKal]

Is there anyway to change the phone settings after Zipper is installed? I don't want to call the 'mothership', but it would be nice to be able to order PPV through the remote and have CallerID. However, I have settings in my 'Call Prefix' line that prevent the phone from connecting. I can't change the settings because it tries to do a test call and it seems that no call can complete now - not even to pick up the listing of local call in numbers.

Is there anyway to change the settings without doing a test call? Or anyway to allow the test call to complete under Zipper, then reenable the call out block?

[Gunnyman]

the ppv call is totally separate from the tivo call so you should be fine.
to temporarily let a test call go through, look at the etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author file
comment out the two route commands with a "#" reboot tivo using a unix friendly text editor like metapad
make the test call
edit author file again removing the "#" symbols.

[TechniKal]

Thanks - is there any reason I can't edit the rc.sysinit.author file with the Joe text editor via telnet?

[MartyBoy00]

One more question... (I'm hoping)... I have made the disks and I am ready to go... bought a 160 GB Seagate HD to do it on... when it comes to the prompt for the IP address for the TiVo unit, do I make it up? Or is there one... ? I am using a Netgear wireless router, but I will be connecting via wireline... (I would do wireless, but I don't know what extra equipment I might need)... I am very excited to try this... No risk really because the original TiVo HD will be untouched.. so if I mess up, I can put it back in.. :) Thanks again.. hope I don't seem to 'dumb'... I am just very anal about asking questions before the fact..

[Gunnyman]

if you are using dhcp then assign one within your dhcp server's (router) range of ip's if you are not, then make sure it is in the same subnet of the rest of your network.

[Gunnyman]

Thanks - is there any reason I can't edit the rc.sysinit.author file with the Joe text editor via telnet?
no in fact it's preferable :)

[rbautch]

It appears /etc/resolv.conf was overwritten with the default statements following the scheduled reboot of my tivo last night.

1. Should I add some code into /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author to rebuild resolv.conf upon bootup?
2. What else might have been overwritten?
3. How necessary are the scheduled reboots? I cant think of any reason why resolv.conf would get overwritten. Is it possible that your edits didn't take because the filesystem was mounted ro? Reboots are discussed at length in this and the enhancement script thread.

[twh3842]

Thanks Gunnyman. The Tivo is zippered and working propperly. Good jos on the zipper. It works really well when you have the right files on the cd.

Tom

[HUGE2U]

I was messing around, and re-installing the enhancement script and ran into some trouble where I lost my network connection to my HR10-250. I zippered to to fix it but no dice, and now I am stuck in a rebooting loop and I cannot figure out how to get out of it. I plugged in the serial cable and logged the output, I am hoping someone can figure this out so I do not have to start with a fresh image.


The trouble is obviously at the end, but I have no idea what it means.




is: 00005430
FPU revision is: 00005410
Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.20 (build@buildmaster5) (gcc version 3.0) #22 Fri Feb 20 18:19
:25 PST 2004
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
zone(0): 32768 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware
=false
Monotonic time calibrated: 81.00 counts per usec
Calibrating delay loop... 161.79 BogoMIPS
Contiguous region 1: 12582912 bytes @ address 0x80583000
Contiguous region 2: 2097152 bytes @ address 0x81183000
Contiguous region 8: 23068672 bytes @ address 0x81383000
Contiguous region of 37748736 bytes total reserved at 0x80583000.
Memory: 91240k/131072k available (1222k kernel code, 39832k reserved, 81k data,
64k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at port 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en
abled
ttyS00 at 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS02 at 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: WDC WD2500LB-55EDA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD2500JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x400-0x407,0x438 on irq 87
hda: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
hdb: 488397168 sectors (250059 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=30401/255/63
Partition check:
hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13
hda14
hdb: [mac] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3[M]
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1024 buckets, 8192 max) - 152 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
## MIPS ## arch-specific shell functions defined
Starting rc.sysinit
Releasing /initrd and clearing ramdisk, if they exist
umount: /initrd: not mounted
Activating swap partitions
Adding Swap: 130044k swap-space (priority -1)
Loading i2c driver
Loading core system drivers
Parallel modem driver loaded, 1 ports starting at /dev/ttyS1
Loading ircatch ...
IRMC registry var is 0 (AVR not present).
Loading irblast ...
Checking for Kickstart panic signal
exit_code = 0
Found rev 'F' Si2433 modem on /dev/cua1
Cleanup /dev/hda9 pass 1
/dev/hda9 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Inode 2050, i_blocks wrong 1288 (counted=1284). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 2052, i_blocks wrong 326 (counted=322). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 2059, i_blocks wrong 2232 (counted=2224). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 2056, i_blocks wrong 6120 (counted=6118). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Inode 2057, i_blocks wrong 954 (counted=948). Set i_blocks to counted? yes

Fix summary information? yes

/dev/hda9: 437/32768 files (7.1% non-contiguous), 36756/131072 blocks
Cleanup /dev/hda9 pass 2
/dev/hda9: clean, 437/32768 files, 36756/131072 blocks
/dev/hda9 is clean after pass 2
Mounting /var
/dev/hda9 on /var type ext2 (rw)
Cleaning up /var/mtab...
Using default TIVO_SVR_ADDR
Mounting initial environment...
Loading input section drivers
cobra module was successfully installed, LNBPA 0x10 LNBPB 0x12
Cleaning up temporary files in /var/tmp and /var/run
Cleaning up old slices and bundles in /var/packages...
Checking space in /var
Found Silicon Labs "Si2433" modem, rev F, skipping modem patch
Scanning for phase1 repair scripts
Initializing TiVo extension...
Set up environment vars for hardware configuration...
Remote control is TIVO
MFS partition on /dev/hda10
Loading media drivers...
Loading ideturbo ...
TiVo disk statistics module loaded
Disk cautionlevel is 3
hda: Generic ATA management
Auto-detecting oslink module (asic 5).
Not Installing oslink module.
Loading fan ...
Loading therm ...
Loading output section drivers ...
Using dual-tuner HD client priorities
/tvbin/atscapp: ATSC Interface Version 0.4, compiled on Feb 10 2004
2004 probe
Changed Broadcom output format to 4801
Broadcom DVI colorspace set to RGB
Splash the screen...
Loading AV chip dssapp
/tvbin/dssappAV: DSS Interface Version 1.16, compiled on Jan 23 2004
Look for debug board ...
Enabling local route...
Setting TCP keepalive parameters...
Starting logging daemons...
Check for PROM update ...
Updating system clock UID=0
Time set to: Fri Feb 17 06:17:24 2006
Have a nice day.
Checking for additional disk...
Starting EventSwitcher...
Not going to start Test service with NULL executable
Not going to start Epg Manager (/tvbin/EpgManager isn't an existing executable)
Not going to start thttpd (/tvbin/thttpd isn't an existing executable)
Not going to start DmComponent (/tvbin/DmComponent isn't an existing executable)
Not going to start IdlComponent (/tvbin/idl-component isn't an existing executab
le)
Not going to start Falcon (/tvbin/falcon isn't an existing executable)
Start fan control...
Terminal temp: 71
Critical temp: 62
Logging temp: 60
Target temp: 50
Scanning for phase2 repair scripts
Checking for database conversions...
Not upgrading software
Scanning for phase3 repair scripts
Starting Services.
Scanning for phase4 repair scripts
PCI: 00:0d.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correctin
g to 32
insmod: /lib/modules/ehci-hcd.o: No such file or directory
MCP startup complete
Calling Run...
ApgLogFrequency( 0 sec )
Finished creating ApgDriverFrameIter
Using a smartSorter!
Creating ApgReader
**Transition from unpaired to paired card.**
Initialize with 2 live caches
ApgManager Transition from state INIT to ACQUIRE_MARKER
No response when asking version info, tried 10 times.
Microcode version is TiVo!
ApgManager Transition from state ACQUIRE_MARKER to BOOT
Adding networks of interest...ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgManager Transition from state BOOT to SECONDARY_BOOT
ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgManager Transition from state SECONDARY_BOOT to FAST_LOAD
In ClearChannels
Out ClearChannels
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: /var/hack/tivowebplus/tivoweb: No such file or dire
ctory
Starting fakecall
fakecall Installed
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: /enhancements/TWPrun.sh: No such file or directory
crond: /var/spool/cron/crontabs: No such file or directory
rc.sysinit is complete
bash: no job control in this shell
bash-2.02# ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to PREP_SETUP
ApgManager Transition from state PREP_SETUP to EXPRESSION_EVALUATION
ApgManager Transition from state EXPRESSION_EVALUATION to STEADY_STATE
emulate_load_store_insn: sending signal 11 to myworld(188)
$0 : 00000000 9001d400 00000001 00000007 100688f0 000000e5 000000f1 7f5c42cc
$8 : 00000001 7f5c40dc 7f5c417c 7f5c4224 00000000 fa000000 000dd807 7c000000
$16: 00000001 7f61a694 7f5f3d54 7f6ca6cc 00000001 7f61a6a4 7fff74a8 7fff74b0
$24: 00000000 0073c3f0 100484c0 7fff72b0 7fff77a0 0073899c
Hi : 00000000
Lo : 00000000
epc : 007389b8 Not tainted
Status: 8001d413
Cause : 00000014
8001e9fc 8001eac0 80022bb4 80021568 8001d7b8 007389b8
007389b8 100484c0 (Bad trace)
Tmk Fatal Error: Thread ContextMgr event handler <188> died due to signal 11
pc 0x7389bc status 0x8001d413 cause 0x000014 bva 0x000091 hi 00000000 lo 0000000
0
R00 0x00000000 R01 0x9001d400 R02 0x00000001 R03 0x00000007
R04 0x100688f0 R05 0x000000e5 R06 0x000000f1 R07 0x7f5c42cc
R08 0x00000001 R09 0x7f5c40dc R10 0x7f5c417c R11 0x7f5c4224
R12 0x00000000 R13 0xfa000000 R14 0x000dd807 R15 0x7c000000
R16 0x00000001 R17 0x7f61a694 R18 0x7f5f3d54 R19 0x7f6ca6cc
R20 0x00000001 R21 0x7f61a6a4 R22 0x7fff74a8 R23 0x7fff74b0
R24 0x00000000 R25 0x0073c3f0 R26 0x00ed1cd0 R27 0x00000000
R28 0x100484c0 R29 0x7fff72b0 R30 0x7fff77a0 R31 0x0073899c
7389bc 100484c0 Illegal read at 0fff6594
do_page_fault #2: sending signal 11 to myworld(188)
$0 : 00000000 1003c2a8 03e00000 00000001 27bd0000 7fff6fe8 7fff6fec 7fff6ff0
$8 : 0fff6590 100070b4 0fff6594 7fff6fe4 100484c0 03c0e821 03a0f021 00000000
$16: 00000000 04000000 fc0c0000 10000000 b0000000 7fff72d8 afbe0000 afbf0000
$24: 00000000 00000000 100484c0 7fff6d80 8fbe0000 00e036e0
Hi : 17b46908
Lo : b684df2f
epc : 00e030f0 Not tainted
Status: 8001d413
Cause : 00000008
8001e9fc 8001eac0 80022bb4 80022d74 80024db8 00e030f0
00e030f0 00e036e0 7fff7028 (Bad trace)
flushing ide devices: hda hdb
Restarting system.

Thanks for any help,

HUGE

[emherrma]

Hey guys, I just went through the procedure on your website to upgrade my HDVR2. I bought a virgin 200GB HD and ran the zipper instructions. I got to step L and my tivo booted fine after running the zipper and installing a new image. The problem is that it never rebooted like the instructions mentioned it would to setup the network parameters. After it finished booting, I couldnt telnet to it. I am using a Netgear FA120 as my USB adapter. My Motorola SBG1000 router seems to see that the LAN cable is plugged in from its end and the FA120 seems to have all the framilliar blinking lights like it sees my router. I tried re-running the zipper program a few times afterward. Once with the image, once without. Neither seemed to matter. Any ideas?

[Gunnyman]

what happens when you telnet? connection refused? or another error?

[emherrma]

wow. That was quick. Found the problem was that the tivo ip address was set outside the range of my DHCP router . Just fixed it and it rebooted as expected now. Thanks for the help!

[Gunnyman]

no problem

[Tonedeaf]

Gunny, thanks for your help yesterday on my telnet issue. Got it resolved and installed Hackman aswell. Love what you and rbautch have done for the community here. Kudos to both of you. :up:

[Gunnyman]

:up:
glad to hear it.

[emherrma]

Gunny,
question about when I run the tweak.sh script. Getting some messages that I dont think I should be getting.


bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Original unpatched tivoapp found in /tvbin. This takes up lots of space and may
interfere with running this script. Enter r to remove it, k to keep it, or e to
exit this this script now so you can FTP it to your PC. Enter r k or e here: k

Continuing...
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: mastersav Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: Make sure your Tivo is connect
ed to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

Not sure why it is trying to go to mastersav. Any ideas?

[rbautch]

The trouble is obviously at the end, but I have no idea what it means.
That makes two of us. However you can try a few things shy of re-imaging. First replace the kernel. If that doesn't work, restore a new image to a spare hard drive, and try copying the entire root filesystem from the newly restored drive to the problem drive using dd. Put both drives in a PC to do this. If your root filesystem is on hda4, then the command would look something like this dd if=/dev/hda4 of=/dev/hdb4 Note that when you run the enhancement script on an HR10-250, it manually patches your tivoapp to disable encryption, etc., but only does it if software ver 3.1.5e or 3.1.5f is detected. I thought I remember you had an older version of the software. This shouldn't cause your tivo not to boot, unless the patches ran somehow and screwed up your tivoapp.

[Gunnyman]

Gunny,
question about when I run the tweak.sh script. Getting some messages that I dont think I should be getting.


bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Original unpatched tivoapp found in /tvbin. This takes up lots of space and may
interfere with running this script. Enter r to remove it, k to keep it, or e to
exit this this script now so you can FTP it to your PC. Enter r k or e here: k

Continuing...
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: mastersav Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: Make sure your Tivo is connect
ed to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

Not sure why it is trying to go to mastersav. Any ideas?
the tweak script goes to masersav (rbautch's site) to get the latest and greatest rbautch.tgz.
can your tivo get to the internet? and is rbautch_files.tgz on your tools disk?

[rbautch]

Gunny,
question about when I run the tweak.sh script. Getting some messages that I dont think I should be getting.


bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Original unpatched tivoapp found in /tvbin. This takes up lots of space and may
interfere with running this script. Enter r to remove it, k to keep it, or e to
exit this this script now so you can FTP it to your PC. Enter r k or e here: k

Continuing...
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: mastersav Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: Make sure your Tivo is connect
ed to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#

Not sure why it is trying to go to mastersav. Any ideas?It goes to mastersav (my site) to get the latest version of the rbautch_files.tgz archive. You have two options. One is to fix your DNS settings. Two is to extract the files archive from the tools disk and stick it in the same directory as tweak.sh. Tweak.sh will recognize the archive is there already and will not try to download it.

[emherrma]

My tivo "should" be able to access the internet. Checking the router settings a little closer now.

The rbautch_files.tgz IS on my tools disk though. Is there a way I can copy them directly to the tivo instead?

[HUGE2U]

That makes two of us. However you can try a few things shy of re-imaging. First replace the kernel. If that doesn't work, restore a new image to a spare hard drive, and try copying the entire root filesystem from the newly restored drive to the problem drive using dd. Put both drives in a PC to do this. If your root filesystem is on hda4, then the command would look something like this dd if=/dev/hda4 of=/dev/hdb4 Note that when you run the enhancement script on an HR10-250, it manually patches your tivoapp to disable encryption, etc., but only does it if software ver 3.1.5e or 3.1.5f is detected. I thought I remember you had an older version of the software. This shouldn't cause your tivo not to boot, unless the patches ran somehow and screwed up your tivoapp.

It is at 3.1.5f, but that does give me some new things to try. If the Tivoapp is messed up, I can just restore a a backup one right ?

HUGE

[rbautch]

It is at 3.1.5f, but that does give me some new things to try. If the Tivoapp is messed up, I can just restore a a backup one right ?

HUGEYes.

[emherrma]

Ok, I hate to ask. But I cant seem to get my DNS settings right for this guy. Im a newbie (obviously). So what command(s) could I use to copy your file from my tools disk to the appropriate dir?

[Gunnyman]

if ftp is working, just ftp the file to same directory as tweak.sh

[HUGE2U]

Yes.


Cool - now, assuming that works, I will want to re-patch it. Which script pacthes the tivoapp to disable encryption etc? superpatch?

HUGE

[stevecon]

strevecon, I know about zip about networking. Pickup up most of what little I know from "hows this work". ;)
But that being said, is there a chance that address 204 is outside of the range your router will support??
Just remember I know about zip, just vaguely recalling some other comments I've read here.

Hi Willard - 255 is the end of the rope for addresses before you have to index up ie:
192.168.0.255 + 1 = 192.168.1.0. But, good catch. I did try again with 192.168.0.199, same problem. I spent hours on it yesterday - so I gave up on it until this afternoon when I'll try some other addresses.

[rbautch]

Cool - now, assuming that works, I will want to re-patch it. Which script pacthes the tivoapp to disable encryption etc? superpatch?

HUGEtweak.sh will do it. Superpatch does not work on an HR10-250.

[emherrma]

Thanks for the ftp idea! Getting much closer now. Still get an error though. Looks like it cannot extract proplery for the tweak.sh to run. Should I extract on my hd, then ftp all the files?



bash-2.02# cd /hacks
bash-2.02# dir
mfs_network superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.1.tcl
network.tcl tweak.sh
rbautch_files.tgz tweak_uninstall.sh
set_mrv_name_67.tcl
bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Existing rbautch_files.tgz archive found in /hacks/
Skipping new script download...

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: inflate error 2
tar: Unable to read all data
tar: Unable to read all data
mv: /enhancements/tweak_uninstall.sh: No such file or directory
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]:

[HUGE2U]

tweak.sh will do it. Superpatch does not work on an HR10-250.
Awesome, and it will automatically know which version of tivoapp I have right? I started with 3.1.5, upgraded to 3.1.5f - but if I restoer form a backup I will not know which version it is from.

HUGE

[Gunnyman]

try making tivo file system writeable from bash with "rw" first.

[emherrma]

doent seem to be a "rw" command. There is a "readonly" command

[Gunnyman]

oh hang on I forgot you don't have teh aliases installed yet. :P my fault
do this at BASH prompt
mount -o remount,rw /

[emherrma]

Darn. Same error after the command

[Gunnyman]

odd
untar on your pc 1st then

[rbautch]

Awesome, and it will automatically know which version of tivoapp I have right? I started with 3.1.5, upgraded to 3.1.5f - but if I restoer form a backup I will not know which version it is from.

HUGE Yes, it will know. If it's not a 3.1.5f or 3.1.5e, it will skip the tivoapp patch.

[rbautch]

Darn. Same error after the command Did you transfer in binary mode?

[emherrma]

that was the problem. Good call. Just ran the scripts and everything worked great! Thanks again guys!

[emherrma]

Ok. Now that I have successfully installed the zipper (Thanks again guys). I would like, if possible, to instal a second (my original unhacked 6.2) HD. I read through as many of the 3k+ posts as time would allow, but didnt see anything quite like this.

I think I should have done some planning beforehand from the sounds of it. Also, mfsadd seems like what I should be using correct? A pointer in the right direction would be much appreciated.

[Gunnyman]

yes mfsadd
and a bracket and a fan kit from weaknees.
Honestly though a 1 drive system is better less heat and easier to figure out which drive has gone bad on you.

[emherrma]

Agreed. Plus, a 40Gig HD isnt much use in a TiVo these days anyway.

Ok. You convinced me. I will just use my new one. So is there an easy way to copy my existing data from my old 40 gig to my new one? Dont know the directory structure on them well enough yet. Do I still use the mfsadd or is there an eaiser way?

[Gunnyman]

you should have started with hinsdale's guide and done a piped mfsbackup|mfsrestore

[starbiker99]

Agreed. Plus, a 40Gig HD isnt much use in a TiVo these days anyway.

Ok. You convinced me. I will just use my new one. So is there an easy way to copy my existing data from my old 40 gig to my new one? Dont know the directory structure on them well enough yet. Do I still use the mfsadd or is there an eaiser way?

If I were you I would copy the the old try to the new drive which basically writes over everything then you can re Zipper the new drive. Just a thought that way you keep all stuff and get the bells and whistles. :)

[HUGE2U]

Yes, it will know. If it's not a 3.1.5f or 3.1.5e, it will skip the tivoapp patch.


After restoring and old tivoapp everythig worked fine. I then re-ran the enhancement script. The script patched my tivoapp on my 3.1.5f but that resulted in a rebooting loop. I could not figure out which tivoapp was actually my orignal unhacked 3.1.5f tivoapp (there are a few different backups), so I used my 3.1.5d one instead. The script did not patch it (I did it manually to disable encryption) and all seems to be well. Is there any sense in me tracking down a 3.1.5f tivoapp or will the one I am be ok?

Thanks again,

HUGE

[MartyBoy00]

I finished... too awesome. It was easier than I could possibly have imagined. (I am ordering a 2nd HDVR2 and I already zippered a hard drive for it with a different IP address)

Couldn't thank you enough... curious, now that it is up and running, is there a thread that shows me how to do all the fun stuff you have helped me enable?

[rbautch]

After restoring and old tivoapp everythig worked fine. I then re-ran the enhancement script. The script patched my tivoapp on my 3.1.5f but that resulted in a rebooting loop. I could not figure out which tivoapp was actually my orignal unhacked 3.1.5f tivoapp (there are a few different backups), so I used my 3.1.5d one instead. The script did not patch it (I did it manually to disable encryption) and all seems to be well. Is there any sense in me tracking down a 3.1.5f tivoapp or will the one I am be ok?

Thanks again,

HUGE If you have 3.1.5f software, you should be using a 3.1.5f tivoapp.
I'd appreciate if you would take a look at the tivoapp patches in /enhancements/start.sh and try them one by one to see if they work. You're the first person who has reported a problem with the patches in the script.

[hyde76]

New issue though it could be any number of things. Zippered the HDVR2 and it seemed to work well enough. Yesterday I applied the standby 62 patch and it worked however, now, my HDVR2 seems to be stuck in an endless reboot after a few minutes of being up and running. I am traveling all next week and did not have time to fiddle with it so I pulled the zippered drive and reinstalled the original which seems to work well enough without reboots.

Only thing I can think of that caused this was a problem transferring the Tuikhelper.tcl that was associated with the standby patch. Could this be part of the problem causing reboots? I don't know much about the utility and it's admittedly not well documented. I'm going to rezipper when I get back home and try it again from scratch but I'm interested to hear if anyone else has experienced this issue. Thanks.

[Gunnyman]

sounds like your tivoapp patching didn't go well.
restore the original (called tivoapp.original) located in tvbin.
after that you MAY need to re-run superpatch.

[Culverinc]

Quote:
Originally Posted by stevecon
To all you hacked HR10-250 owners out there: When you point your browser at your HR10-250's IP addy, and click "SCREEN" (http://192.168.0.xxx/screen/), what do you see? I get:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_screen '/' ''
invalid command name "SendKeyAndWait"
while executing
"SendKeyAndWait dumpState"
(procedure "::action_screen" line 14)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--

Any thoughts?

Go to your tivowebplus directory and delete hackman.ini and hackman.cfg if they are there. Then restart TWP.

I'm getting this same error message on (2) HR10-250's. I've deleted the hackman files and restarted as suggested with both 4.0.2 and 4.1.0 versions of Hackman with the same result. Anything else I should try?

Dennis

[TechniKal]

Two more questions - The CallerID info displays way at the top of the screen - getting cut off. Is there any way to adjust where it displays on the screen?

Secondly, the DWL-122 that I've been using without issue all the sudden doesn't work anymore. I haven't changed the router. I did run the setSSIDwep script to see about enabling WEP, but didn't turn on WEP. Wired connection still works. The wireless adaptor works when plugged into a PC. I've reran teh setSSIDwep script again to verify the ssid and lack of wep, rebooted multiple times - but still no link. Any idea what could be going on?

[blueshoo]

The CallerID info displays way at the top of the screen - getting cut off. Is there any way to adjust where it displays on the screen?

Not sure if it will work or not, but it may work to modify the OPTSTIVO variable in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/ncid to include -l# where # is the line number to display the caller ID.

I modified one of the DisplayText TWP modules to use out2osd since I couldn't get the other on screen display apps to work, but knew out2osd was okay since ncid was using it. Anyway, the -l paramter will do the trick, but don't know if it will work in that script or not. out2osd --help to display all options.

[Gunnyman]

Just wanted to thank the contributors at zipperwiki.thewallens.net.
It's really shaping up nicely!

[Tracy RainH2o]

Just wanted to thank the contributors at zipperwiki.thewallens.net.
It's really shaping up nicely!

Gunnyman,

Zipper Wiki? You really do not want any free time on your hands do you? ;)

[Gunnyman]

all I did was set it up and has for help :D

[SBI]

the readme file in the tools disk download :p

Gunny, I don't have a readme file in the Tools Disk...

[pacor]

:confused: I have a question. I got the PTV instant cake for a DSR704, and the question I have is that I don't find the kernel. I burned the CD image I downloaded and looked on it and I see the 00001 disk image, but I don't find a VMLINUX_.GZ file, I have a VMLINUZ file(no extension), that I think is a kernel because I went ahead and ran the PTV upgrade on a new hard driver and I see it loading that file when doing the LINUX boot. The question I have is do I need to gzip that file and create a VMLINUX_.GZ from it to run the zipper? Thanks

[Gunnyman]

no you also need the 5 dollar boot cd. the kernel you want is on there.

[Gunnyman]

Gunny, I don't have a readme file in the Tools Disk...
dig deeper it's in rbautch_files.tgz

[clover_kid]

Downloaded and ran the ZIPPER on my 15.00 DTivo..Worked like a champ. Thanks for all your work...This one was so much EASIER to do using the zipper rather than the UnGuide...Thanks AGAIN

[gobble]

I need to copy some files to my HR10-250 which I believe is done by FTP. I've been searching for the last hour for a how-to guide on FTP but haven't found anything. Does anyone have any thoughts on where I should look to learn this? How do I copy a file from my PC to the already hacked Tivo?

Edit: I found mfs_ftp and the instructions for it which says it must first be copied to my Tivo. How do I copy this or any file to the Tivo? I can access the Tivo via Telnet and TivoWeBPlus, but can't figure out how to copy files to it.

[Gunnyman]

ftp daemon should be running on the tivo
just get an ftp program like filezilla and connect to the tivo
mfs_ftp is not going to do what you want.

[SBI]

dig deeper it's in rbautch_files.tgz


Thanks!!

[gobble]

ftp daemon should be running on the tivo
just get an ftp program like filezilla and connect to the tivo
mfs_ftp is not going to do what you want.

Thanks. Filezilla is a slick tool. I'm working on something (you can probably guess what it is) that requires me to copy ciphercheck.tcl into the /var/mfs_ftp directory according to the guide I'm following. It appears that the zipper doesn't put mfs_ftp on the Tivo. Am I going to create a problem if I add this?

[Gunnyman]

no not at all
you should be fine

[bretnj]

I'm having the same problem. Tried making it readwrite like you posted, but it still gives me the same error when I do 'sh tweak.sh'. Any ideas?

[Tomaroosky]

Scratching my head!

About 6 months ago I ran through the Unguide and hacked my Series 2 successfully. A couple weeks ago I ran the tweak script and that also went through successfully. A couple days ago I restarted my tivo and when it came back up the networking no longer worked, couldn't ping, telnet, MRV, anything. I tried restarting again, switched to a wired connection still no worky...

So today I pulled the drive and ran the zipper process, keeping my current image intact. The zipper worked fine and I put it back in the Tivo and upon boot up was able to telnet back in, MRV worked as well. However, the following strange things are happening.

1. I type LS for a directory listing and I get a Unzip 5.50 help screen.
2. I try to run the tweak script and it comes up with the you must uninstall script first.
3. I ran the uninstall and got the following message

MSTRBROOM-TiVo# sh tweak_uninstall.sh
Removing directories and files...
skipping TWP uninstall...
Skipping cron uninstall...
Skipping CallerID uninstall...
Skipping fakecall restore...
Skipping USB 2.0 driver restore...
No bakup profile found, skipping profile restore...
Restoring original rc.sysinit.author file
mv: rc.sysinit.author.bak: No such file or directory
No backup splash screen found, skipping splash restore...
Done!
4. I try to run tweak again and see the Unzip Help screen message followed by a message that tells me the download failed adjust my dns settings. I answer yes, after following the steps it tells me to rerun tweak. When I run again it comes up with the same message.

5. When I do a dir, cuz I can't do a LS as mentioned above, none of the directories or files show up with colors like they do in LS - is this normal?

6. I then reran the zipper process - but I still have the same problem.

Any ideas?

[rbautch]

Sounds like some of your binaries in /busybox may be corrupt. I've had the unzip thing happen before. FTP tivotools.tar to your /busybox directory and untar it, replacing everything that's in there now.

[llurkin]

Question 1. In my attempt to resolve the problem that's being discussed, my attempt to ftp tivotools.tar to /busybox, I get the following:

ftp> cd busybox
250 Directory change successful.
ftp> put tivotools.tar
200 PORT command successful.
550 Error opening file; Read-only file system.
ftp>

Is the Read-only file system in my PC or the Tivo.. and how do I cure this?

Question 2. It appears that when rbautch_files.tgz is "unzipped", it is then deleted. I receive the same message when I try to send rbautch_files.tgz to the tivo by ftp. At the moment I have run "uninstall",removed the Tivo drive, put it in my PC and zippered it about 5 times.

Each time it is reinstalled into the tivo, a similar problem is encountered.. Unzip , Download, directories not found.

Then I went to mastersav to get the newest file.. Nice site, but where do you hide the files?

Like Edison, I know many ways not to make the zipper work. What method should be used to make it work?

[rbautch]

Type rw at bash to mount read-write. Then try again. The rbautch_files.tgz archive is contained in the tools disk download.

[llurkin]

bash-2.02# cd /busybox
bash-2.02# rw
bash: rw: command not found
bash-2.02#

Now what next??

[Gunnyman]

sounds like you don't have profiles installed either
the command you want is mount -o remount,rw /

[danny7481]

do you have to have a network to use the zipper? i plan on getting a wireless router later, but dont have it yet. thanks.

[Gunnyman]

you don't HAVE to, you can connect with a crossover cable between the tivo and your PC.
Just set up the tivo and the PC with static IP's in the same subnet.

[SBI]

Does the Zipper do anything to un-scramble?

Can someone point to a procedure for unscrambling after Zipper?

Thank you.

[Gunnyman]

Does the Zipper do anything to un-scramble?

Can someone point to a procedure for unscrambling after Zipper?

Thank you.

Nothing the zipper does touches "existing recordings"
you are going to have to search over on ddb for further help.

[tkenney]

Alright...call me a dummy (although I have hacked many Tivos before manually). When I burned my Tools CD (using "Commandburner" - I don't have Nero), here's how the 6.2 image is listed on the CD:

instantcake-sddvr40-6[1].2-01-2-351

The file type is an ISO image. Am I doing something wrong here or will The Zipper recognize this image?


Tim

[ttodd1]

An ISO file is an image, you have to do a burn from image type of cd.

[tkenney]

ttodd1,

So how is that accomplished? I downloaded the Instantcake file from PTV and the ISO image file os on my Desktop. Are you saying I need to burn that to a cd first and copy the 0000001 image file back to my desktop? I huess I am missing the point?

[pacor]

:) First Thank You Gunnyman for your response. I was able to run the Zipper and it worked great. I do have a question, that I'm not sure if this is the correct thread, if not, let me know. I hacked my DSR704 and everything looks fine. The main reason I did it was to have HMO and be able to transfer recordings between it and my S2 standalone. My S2 standalone is not hacked. The thing is I can see the Dtivo in the now playing from the S2 and viceversa, but I'm not allowed to do any transfers. It has a different message on each machine, but both referred me to the tivo/manage page. Is there is some other setup I need to do or something else I need to run? The S2 is setup to do transfers on the tivo page. I also tried runing tivo desktop and it only see's the S2. Thanks

[ttodd1]

I have never heard of Commandburner, you would have to check its documentation on how to burn ISO files.

[RxMan]

I am having trouble establishing a network connection with my HR10-250 . I have hacked several DTivos in the past including a different HR10-250. I ran zipper and everything went fine. I set the IP address on the DTivo to 192.168.1.109 and the router to 192.168.1.1 which I believe to be correct. My DHCP table shows nothing over 192.168.1.104 so I am assuming that there is no conflict. I am using a Linksys 100TX Usb adapter which I tested on my computer and it does work. When connected to the Dtivo though, I get no lights at all. Is it possible I have bad USB ports or am I missing something else? I also tested the cables by connecting my xbox and it connected fine. THANKS!!

[pacor]

Tkenney, you are correct. I just went thru the same thing. You need to burn the CD image to a CD and then copy the 00001 from the CD back to the PC to the directory where you have the other things required for the zipper and them burn all that into a CD to create the "zipper" or tools CD. The same thing applies to the kernel, if you download the $5 cd, you will need to burn it first and them look for the Kernel in the CD and copy it from there.

[ttodd1]

:) First Thank You Gunnyman for your response. I was able to run the Zipper and it worked great. I do have a question, that I'm not sure if this is the correct thread, if not, let me know. I hacked my DSR704 and everything looks fine. The main reason I did it was to have HMO and be able to transfer recordings between it and my S2 standalone. My S2 standalone is not hacked. The thing is I can see the Dtivo in the now playing from the S2 and viceversa, but I'm not allowed to do any transfers. It has a different message on each machine, but both referred me to the tivo/manage page. Is there is some other setup I need to do or something else I need to run? The S2 is setup to do transfers on the tivo page. I also tried runing tivo desktop and it only see's the S2. Thanks

As I understand it both units have to be hacked in order to MRV between them. TivoDesktop cannot be used to pull recording from the DTivo.

[tkenney]

pacor,

Thanks so much...it's Sunday morning and my mind isn't working yet. I am all set now!

[ttodd1]

I am having trouble establishing a network connection with my HR10-250 . I have hacked several DTivos in the past including a different HR10-250. I ran zipper and everything went fine. I set the IP address on the DTivo to 192.168.1.109 and the router to 192.168.1.1 which I believe to be correct. My DHCP table shows nothing over 192.168.1.104 so I am assuming that there is no conflict. I am using a Linksys 100TX Usb adapter which I tested on my computer and it does work. When connected to the Dtivo though, I get no lights at all. Is it possible I have bad USB ports or am I missing something else? I also tested the cables by connecting my xbox and it connected fine. THANKS!!

I've had similar issue, I got it to work by moving the adapter to the other USB port and rebooting the unit. It worked fine then.

[RxMan]

I have tried that as well with no luck. I'll try moving the ip well out of DHCP range. I don't know what else to try.

[ttodd1]

I have tried that as well with no luck. I'll try moving the ip well out of DHCP range. I don't know what else to try.

If the lights are not coming on it is not the IP address that is the problem.

[RxMan]

I guess I have 2 bad usb ports then. :(

[ttodd1]

Have you tried unplugging it then after the unit is up plug it in? Also you try using one from another unit that you know is working on this one to see (and visa versa)

[rbautch]

Alright...call me a dummy (although I have hacked many Tivos before manually). When I burned my Tools CD (using "Commandburner" - I don't have Nero), here's how the 6.2 image is listed on the CD:

instantcake-sddvr40-6[1].2-01-2-351

The file type is an ISO image. Am I doing something wrong here or will The Zipper recognize this image?


Tim You have to extract the 6.2 software image from the iso and put it on the tools disk. The tools disk is not an iso.

[RxMan]

I tried moving it to each of the usb ports once the unit was booted up.
I tested the usb adpater on my computer and it is fine.
The cables to router are also fine.

The only other thing I can think of is that the kenal is not getting replaced. The usb ports aren't active by default are they?

I do have the vmlinux_.gz on the disk just like the guide says.
VMLINUX_.GZ 1,777kb

I thought that might be the problem because the guide says it is located in /s2_kernels/3.1.5/VMLINUX_.GZ. I pulled VMLINUX.GZ out of the 3.1.5 folder but did nothing else with it. I am assuming that this is correct.

[Gunnyman]

I THINK and I may be wrong here, the adapter you have won't work in a DTivo.
Do you have another tivo hacked you can test it on?

[llurkin]

Gunny man.. here's what the Tivo says with the mount remount command you suggested:

bash-2.02# mount -o remount rw, /
mount: warning: cannot change mounted device with a remount
bash-2.02#

is that what it is supposed to say?

[RxMan]

I used this exact same adapter on a previous HR10-250 and also a Series 1.

[Gunnyman]

Comment to llurkin:

no
not at all normal
you doing this from bash after telneting in?

[RxMan]

I guess I can try to get bash via serial and still install some of the enhancements that I need. I really wanted to have TivoWeb this time though.

[Gunnyman]

I used this exact same adapter on a previous HR10-250 and also a Series 1.
in that case, I'm stymied.
Your USB ports on the unit may indeed be bad.

[Gunnyman]

I guess I can try to get bash via serial and still install some of the enhancements that I need. I really wanted to have TivoWeb this time though.
sorry my comments were ambiguous and meant for llurkin.

[TechniKal]

Not sure if it will work or not, but it may work to modify the OPTSTIVO variable in /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/ncid to include -l# where # is the line number to display the caller ID.

I modified one of the DisplayText TWP modules to use out2osd since I couldn't get the other on screen display apps to work, but knew out2osd was okay since ncid was using it. Anyway, the -l paramter will do the trick, but don't know if it will work in that script or not. out2osd --help to display all options.

Thanks for the tip. I was able to adjust it by modifying the out2osd.conf file located in the /enhancements/varhacks/hack/etc directory. I added a 'set line = 2' entry and it's showing where it needs to show now.

[llurkin]

Gunnyman..Yes, while I'm not using telnet, ttermpro seems to be easier. What should I be using?

[llurkin]

Also, when I study the directory structure, /enhancements is not there. Does the zipper create it, or should I?

[Gunnyman]

you're still telneting in.even with tterm pro, and yet again I have no idea why you can't mount your file system rw
try cd /
first then try the command again.

[llurkin]

Here's the sequence again..

bash-2.02# cd /
bash-2.02# dir
LICENSE etc install proc tmp
bin etccombo lib ptvupgrade tvbin
busybox hacks lost+found remountrandomtestfile tvlib
dev init mnt sbin var
dist initrd opt test.conf zipper_flag
bash-2.02# mount -o remount rw, /
mount: warning: cannot change mounted device with a remount
bash-2.02#

[pendragn]

I used this exact same adapter on a previous HR10-250 and also a Series 1.
Series 1 boxes don't have USB ports. How are you connecting it to the Series 1 that it works on?

tk

[Gunnyman]

aHA!
you have a comma out of place
its remount,rw / note there is NO space between the remount the comma and teh rw.

[llurkin]

That was it.. now to the next question.

Does zipper create the /enhancement directory, or ??

[Gunnyman]

yes it does.

[llurkin]

I'll be back. But, should I run tweak_uninstall or just rerun zipper in my PC again?

[Gunnyman]

tweak_uninstall should do the trick.

[llurkin]

I'll uninstall, then I'll yank the drive, run zipper again, and get back on the job..

And thanks for your quick responses.

[Gunnyman]

oh wait up if you're PULLING the drive you need to re-zipper
tweak script runs INSIDE the tivo.

[llurkin]

It only takes a minute to remove the drive, and stick it in the PC. It takes longer for the PC to reboot. ;)

[RxMan]

Series 1 boxes don't have USB ports. How are you connecting it to the Series 1 that it works on?

tk

Sorry. I had a turbonet card in the series one. I did use this adpater on a previous HR10-250.

[ttodd1]

I tried moving it to each of the usb ports once the unit was booted up.
I tested the usb adpater on my computer and it is fine.
The cables to router are also fine.

The only other thing I can think of is that the kenal is not getting replaced. The usb ports aren't active by default are they?

I do have the vmlinux_.gz on the disk just like the guide says.
VMLINUX_.GZ 1,777kb

I thought that might be the problem because the guide says it is located in /s2_kernels/3.1.5/VMLINUX_.GZ. I pulled VMLINUX.GZ out of the 3.1.5 folder but did nothing else with it. I am assuming that this is correct.

The one thing you did not say you tried was to pull an adapter from one of the other already hacked units you have and try it on this one. If that does not work then you may indeed have bad USB ports. :(

[RxMan]

It looks like I do have bad USB ports. Weird.

I got in using a serial cable. I made a few mistakes when I was running the enhancements script. I didn't realize that I could have Showcases on the HR10-250 and incorrectly responded yes to an MRV question that I don't need.

Do I simply re-run sh tweak.sh from bash or do I need to do something else first.

Thanks for the help.
Great tool!!

[rbautch]

Bad tivo usb ports are rare, and in fact I've never heard of it. You might try starting from scratch and see if you messed up somewhere.

[rpdre1]

hey rbautch you should add the zipper wiki to your sig :]

[RxMan]

I did it from scratch three times. I don't know what else to do. This is also about the 5th DTivo I have done. Maybe I will try one of the not so easy ways.
Can I re-run sh tweak.sh from serial bash or do I need to do something else first? This would at least get me some of the functions I need for now.

[Tomaroosky]

Sounds like some of your binaries in /busybox may be corrupt. I've had the unzip thing happen before. FTP tivotools.tar to your /busybox directory and untar it, replacing everything that's in there now.


It would appear that you are correct. I copied the chown command over from another working unit. I then just ran chown with no paremeters, all of a sudden all the commands worked, and the enhancement script now worked properly,

Thanks for the help!

[themelon]

I went throught he process of paying for it via paypal, I have an invoice that shows that I completed the transaction but no way to download.

I have not recieved anything in my email with download instuctions either.

What do I have to do?

[Gunnyman]

it SHOULD have redirected you back to the download page
go back to your email and make sure you dont have download directions with your receipt
contact lou at ptvupgrade for assistance if you are still stuck.

[charlestwaters]

I just had to re-zipper one of my HR10-250's due to something I screwed up. However, now that I have redone it, when I bring up the TivoWeb via Internet Exploder, I don't have "hackman" on my list anymore. However, when I telnet or ftp into the modules directory, it is there..

I am using the version of TWP that came with Zipper. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong!?

--- Goobz!

[themelon]

The only receipt I have is the one from PayPal. Should I have recieved one from ptvupgrade?

I will email lou right now.

Thanks Gunny.


it SHOULD have redirected you back to the download page
go back to your email and make sure you dont have download directions with your receipt
contact lou at ptvupgrade for assistance if you are still stuck.

[Gunnyman]

I just had to re-zipper one of my HR10-250's due to something I screwed up. However, now that I have redone it, when I bring up the TivoWeb via Internet Exploder, I don't have "hackman" on my list anymore. However, when I telnet or ftp into the modules directory, it is there..

I am using the version of TWP that came with Zipper. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong!?

--- Goobz!
remove hackman.ini and hackman cfg and restart twp.

[llurkin]

Gunnyman.. Am I incorrect in assessing the zipper as a batch file as would have been used in DOS?

It appears that there is a sequence of commands that implement various hacks that have been developed over the past 24 months. While it is a great process for the second, third,etc Tivo that is modified, the absence of knowing exactly what it is doing retards the learning process.


In some schools, calculators are not introduced until the basics of Math are understood by the students.

What I'm leading to is to determine if anyone has segmented and isolated each step of the zipper so that there may be more understanding for those of us that have an insatiable curiosity.

At this point my frustration with my specific Zipper results leads to a desire to understand what it is really doing.

Would this be the function of your Wiki??

[Gunnyman]

the wiki was created to give us a break from having to answer the same questions over and over.
as for a step by step of what the zipper does you need to look at two things
1) My original DIY hacking 6.2 guide found at http://www.thewallens.net/tivo/Tivo_unguide.html
2) Rbautch's thread entitled "enhance your tivo with this script"
The zipper is in simplest terms the automation of my guide and the installation of Russ' script.
It's meant for novices and veterans alike. Novices wanting to learn should of course do everything by hand and there are plenty of resources available for that at DDB. :)

[RxMan]

OK. I have taken a few steps backwards now.
I decided to re-run the enhancements script because I had things running that I did not need and stuff I wanted running that was not.
I HAD bash and did a sh uninstall_tweak.sh which appeared to uninstall things.
I then ran sh tweak.sh that would not run without connecting to net which I cannot do from my tivo. It asked about removing tivoapp as well.
So...I pulled the drive and completely re-installed zipper for the 4th time. Everything appeared to go fine. Tivo booted than rebooted as expected. I connected the serial cable and cannot get a bash prompt. Basically stuck now. My HD-Tivo does boot up and run, but I have no access to it.

Any ideas???

[danny7481]

you don't HAVE to, you can connect with a crossover cable between the tivo and your PC.
Just set up the tivo and the PC with static IP's in the same subnet.
what exactly is a crossover cable?

[rbautch]

OK. I have taken a few steps backwards now.
I decided to re-run the enhancements script because I had things running that I did not need and stuff I wanted running that was not.
I HAD bash and did a sh uninstall_tweak.sh which appeared to uninstall things.
I then ran sh tweak.sh that would not run without connecting to net which I cannot do from my tivo. It asked about removing tivoapp as well.
So...I pulled the drive and completely re-installed zipper for the 4th time. Everything appeared to go fine. Tivo booted than rebooted as expected. I connected the serial cable and cannot get a bash prompt. Basically stuck now. My HD-Tivo does boot up and run, but I have no access to it.

Any ideas??? 1. Check your serial cable. 2. Try to telnet to your tivo using a wired adapter. 3. Pull the drive and make sure the author file is on it, and has the proper command to enable serial bash.

[ttodd1]

what exactly is a crossover cable?


http://www.homenethelp.com/web/explain/about-ethernet-crossover.asp

http://www.makeitsimple.com/how-to/dyi_crossover.htm

[llurkin]

Thanks Gunnyman.. Those guides are exactly what was sought.

Like number 5, I seek more input..:)

[stevecon]

Maybe I missed it - but is there a way to uninstall the zipper? I had a drive that worked, I ran the zipper on it and when I returned it to the Tivo, it will not boot. It could be a coincidence that the drive failed - or some bone-headed move on my part. Either way, is there a way to do this?

[Finnstang]

Restore the image you made before messing around with your drive.