sleepeeg3
11-30-2006, 10:04 PM
Managed to image a 160GB drive for a Series 1 unit, but I am trying to install the LBA48 patch. Problem I am having is mounting the forsaken CD drive.
Have tried dmesg to pull the boot info and can not find the drive listed there. Shift-PGUP does not move the screen up, so I can not see if it is listed there.
Is there any way to list currently connected drives in Linux?
Tried:
/mount /dev/hdX# /mnt
/mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
/mountcd /dev/cdrom /cdrom
/mountcd cdrom
copykern does not work, because it will only allow you to select drives up to hdg.
Have tried mirroring the copykern command line, which looks similar to:
tpip -s -o kernel.orig -k kernel.vmlinux-3.0.px /dev/hdg
...which is also what was suggested in this guide: http://www.courtesan.com/tivo/bigdisk.html
Again, back to the unmounted cd drive. :mad:
Looked for the vmlinux-3.0.px package under the s1_kernels folder and there is not one to be found.
Again, back to the unmounted cd drive. :mad:
Thank God Linux accepted "dir" as a basic DOS command or I would have been totally lost.
How can Linux install itself on a CDROM and not automatically mount the CDROM? That's as insane as a chicken without an egg!
/Rant This install has been a major headache... Finding the banned image, finding the applicable directions, burning the tools, realizing need patch for 137GB+ drive, burning the correct tools, realizing I only have one port and a 2 device IDE cable and have no way of running 2 drives and a CDROM at the same time, download tools for a floppy, try to use a virtual floppy to extract the tools and put the image and tools on a USB drive, plunder a floppy drive from another computer when the virtual floppy software fails to work, scrounge up an old 30GB backup drive and format to FAT32, learn basic Linux commands, image drive after methodically going through all drive "letters" up to hdj due to 4 unusable channels dedicated to master/slave SATA, because my main drives are in RAID on a SATA controller card.
Just imaged a 250GB ReplayTV drive. Do you know what it took? Downloading the image, downloading RTVPatch, specifying the master/slave drive and hitting a button. 15 seconds later it was done! Such a shame their business failed. Learning Linux to install a drive is UNBELIEVABLY RIDICULOUS! /endrant
Have tried dmesg to pull the boot info and can not find the drive listed there. Shift-PGUP does not move the screen up, so I can not see if it is listed there.
Is there any way to list currently connected drives in Linux?
Tried:
/mount /dev/hdX# /mnt
/mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
/mountcd /dev/cdrom /cdrom
/mountcd cdrom
copykern does not work, because it will only allow you to select drives up to hdg.
Have tried mirroring the copykern command line, which looks similar to:
tpip -s -o kernel.orig -k kernel.vmlinux-3.0.px /dev/hdg
...which is also what was suggested in this guide: http://www.courtesan.com/tivo/bigdisk.html
Again, back to the unmounted cd drive. :mad:
Looked for the vmlinux-3.0.px package under the s1_kernels folder and there is not one to be found.
Again, back to the unmounted cd drive. :mad:
Thank God Linux accepted "dir" as a basic DOS command or I would have been totally lost.
How can Linux install itself on a CDROM and not automatically mount the CDROM? That's as insane as a chicken without an egg!
/Rant This install has been a major headache... Finding the banned image, finding the applicable directions, burning the tools, realizing need patch for 137GB+ drive, burning the correct tools, realizing I only have one port and a 2 device IDE cable and have no way of running 2 drives and a CDROM at the same time, download tools for a floppy, try to use a virtual floppy to extract the tools and put the image and tools on a USB drive, plunder a floppy drive from another computer when the virtual floppy software fails to work, scrounge up an old 30GB backup drive and format to FAT32, learn basic Linux commands, image drive after methodically going through all drive "letters" up to hdj due to 4 unusable channels dedicated to master/slave SATA, because my main drives are in RAID on a SATA controller card.
Just imaged a 250GB ReplayTV drive. Do you know what it took? Downloading the image, downloading RTVPatch, specifying the master/slave drive and hitting a button. 15 seconds later it was done! Such a shame their business failed. Learning Linux to install a drive is UNBELIEVABLY RIDICULOUS! /endrant