make tivo bootable file

[Tjkreed]

Does anybody know if Make Tivo Bootable file is already bootable to be put and used onto a floppy? I just want to make sure that the floppy will be bootable when performing this task.

[sk33t3r]

It doesnt look like it.

[Tjkreed]

Does anyone know why I'm getting "command not found" for MakeTivoBootable? Is this a real file that would be recognized in Linux? Are there step by step commands that I can really go by?

[sk33t3r]

Are you trying to execute it? try ./MakeTivoBootable note the ./

[Tjkreed]

Yes, I am. I first downloaded the file. Second, I unzipped it to a floppy and even copied to my C drive. So when I tried to execute MakeTivoBootable it doesn't recognize the file.

So are the following steps correct?
Type the following command to mount your FAT32 drive, so that you can run MAKETIVOBOOTABLE:
mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

9. Type the following command to change to the directory on which maketivobootable is mounted:
cd /mnt

10. Type one of the following commands to reset the boot sector of your TiVo drive (mine was the first command).

MakeTiVoBootable -d /dev/hdX --pk 3 --ak 6 --bp root=/dev/hda4

if that doesn't work, try this:

MakeTiVoBootable -d /dev/hdX --pk 6 --ak 3 --bp root=/dev/hda7

[Tjkreed]

UPDATE: I realized I had to put back in the MFSTools 2.0 and boot that CD and then use MakeTivoBootable. Yes, I got it to work by typing in this command/step ---
./MakeTiVoBootable -d /dev/hdc --pk 6 --ak 3 --bp root=/dev/hda7
The command will warn you that it could damage your drive, and you will need to hit Y to continue. It takes less than a second, and it will return you to the prompt without any other output when it's done.

So my question is(if anybody can help) which is the last step that is correct between these two sites? (1)The command will warn you that it could damage your drive, and you will need to hit Y to continue. It takes less than a second, and it will return you to the prompt without any other output when it's done.
Execute the command sync three times (to sync any data writes to disk) and then hit Control+Alt+Delete to reboot. Once the system has shut down, turn it off, pull drive B out, and plug it into your TiVo. http://www.alt.org/wiki/index.php/MakeTivoBootable
OR
(2)11. That's it. Hit CNTL + ALT + DELETE and turn off your computer's power after unix backs out. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=117404&page=2&pp=30

[Finnstang]

UPDATE: I realized I had to put back in the MFSTools 2.0 and boot that CD and then use MakeTivoBootable. Yes, I got it to work by typing in this command/step ---
./MakeTiVoBootable -d /dev/hdc --pk 6 --ak 3 --bp root=/dev/hda7
The command will warn you that it could damage your drive, and you will need to hit Y to continue. It takes less than a second, and it will return you to the prompt without any other output when it's done.

So my question is(if anybody can help) which is the last step that is correct between these two sites? (1)The command will warn you that it could damage your drive, and you will need to hit Y to continue. It takes less than a second, and it will return you to the prompt without any other output when it's done.
Execute the command sync three times (to sync any data writes to disk) and then hit Control+Alt+Delete to reboot. Once the system has shut down, turn it off, pull drive B out, and plug it into your TiVo. http://www.alt.org/wiki/index.php/MakeTivoBootable
OR
(2)11. That's it. Hit CNTL + ALT + DELETE and turn off your computer's power after unix backs out. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=117404&page=2&pp=30


The first one is safer, but either will technically work.

[Tjkreed]

YES!!! It worked. After I followed these instructions/suggestions, I went back and then used MFSTools 2.0 and did the commands to mount and back up my image and recordings and then in Linux the statement came up -
"Scanning source drive."
I waited 10 minutes and finally the result I was looking for: "Source drive is 78 hrs. Uncompressed 260MB of 260MB.
Backup done!

I finally got to my first step!
Thanks guys.