Have to re-hack (again)

[DrSpalding]

Sigh. I had to reboot my DSR6000 tonight and when it booted up, all my hacks are gone (again). The initial boot after re-hacking due to the v3.5 update worked ok, except that tivowebplus didn't work so well. I would live with that...

Are there any issues with v3.5 and keeping the hacks applied? Of course, I used kill_initrd as usual to make sure it didn't wipe the hacks.

Was there some other minor update that swapped to the other partition again? I am not looking forward to having to rehack yet again, esp. if it ends up being useless...

If you could, let me know if I am pissing into the wind before I yank the HDs out of my DirecTV Tivo...

[BBQ Chicken]

I have the same problem, I was running a 3.1 image on mine and a reboot killed it, now i'm wondering about upgrading it to the latest tivo os or what is the process to do it these days? I haven't kept up. Let me know if I am hijacking your thread, just curious.

[DrSpalding]

I have the same problem, I was running a 3.1 image on mine and a reboot killed it, now i'm wondering about upgrading it to the latest tivo os or what is the process to do it these days? I haven't kept up. Let me know if I am hijacking your thread, just curious.
I was successful, so I thought, in reapplying the normal hacks to v3.5--it booted up fine, didn't wipe my rc.sysinit/rc.sysinit.author and other files, but tivowebplus didn't work so well. I finally rebooted tonight and it wiped me out again. That hasn't happened for a long time to me. Sometimes, it does decide for some reason to panic and start over, but v3.1 didn't do that ever as far as I know. The version previous to v3.1 did it a couple of times. If it turns out that it is every other boot up on v3.5, I'm gonna be in practice to reapply the hacks!

Pppphhhhffffftt.

I'll drag the HD out tomorrow and reapply. I'll let y'all know if it works more than once. I *will* reboot it manually a couple of times to see if it sticks.

[BTUx9]

A serial cable could help both in figuring out when/how the hacks were being wiped AND in allowing you to rehack without pulling the drive under many circumstances (if done properly)

[DrSpalding]

Somehow, in all my incantations and edits, rc.sysinit.author lost its execute attribute. And did you know that chmod is not on the Dylan boot floppy? Grrr.

I had to save the file to another name, delete the file, copy a different one that had the execute attr, and then cat backup > rc.sysinit.author in order to get the attribute in place.

I really should get a boot CD that works instead of the floppy...