Bash through parallel port?

[Shepdog]

Would this work? I have no serial port on my computer.

[JWThiers]

You can get a USB to serial Adapter.

[Shepdog]

Can one be made?

[JWThiers]

ANYTHING can be made , but is it easy to make, NO, it also needs drivers. They are cheap. less than $10. Page 12 on ebay search for "usb to serial" and buy it now prices are still less than $8

[jcorbin121]

JWThiers - Is the series 2 DirecTivo's bash disbled? I made a cable according to the wiki and I get no love on my RCA HD40

[Da Goon]

JWThiers - Is the series 2 DirecTivo's bash disbled? I made a cable according to the wiki and I get no love on my RCA HD40
All tivo's must be hacked for serial bash access.

[jcorbin121]

Sorry, yes it has been, used PTV Upgrade. Has been working for about 10 months no problems, last week lost networking. Can't telnet in, http in, nor ftp.... was hoping the serial would work so I could look around and see what happened. I have never tried serial access before

[Da Goon]

Pull your drive and check a few things. IIRC PTVnet sets terminal speed to 9600. Also, I believe that the call to bash in rc.sysinit.author is commented out initially. Check /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author and make sure it has /bin/bash </dev/ttyS2&> /dev/ttyS2& in there without a # in front of it.

[BTUx9]

Sorry, yes it has been, used PTV Upgrade. Has been working for about 10 months no problems, last week lost networking. Can't telnet in, http in, nor ftp.... was hoping the serial would work so I could look around and see what happened. I have never tried serial access before
I know it's unlikely, but thought I'd mention: PTVnet does NOT disable upgrades, so if you've received one, your tivo would now be effectively "unhacked"

[Da Goon]

I know it's unlikely, but thought I'd mention: PTVnet does NOT disable upgrades, so if you've received one, your tivo would now be effectively "unhacked"
Good point.

[jcorbin121]

Pull your drive and check a few things. IIRC PTVnet sets terminal speed to 9600. Also, I believe that the call to bash in rc.sysinit.author is commented out initially. Check /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author and make sure it has /bin/bash </dev/ttyS2&> /dev/ttyS2 in there without a # in front of it.

Yes, I believe it is commented out. I have an old copy of the rc.sysinit.author and it is so in there, and I don't remember ever uncommenting it. (lesson #1)

Pull the drive and check.... now I can pull the drive, mounting it is another question. Can I mount it using an external enclosure in Ubuntu, or should I use the PTV CD?

[Da Goon]

You could boot with mfslive and use a usb enclosure for your hdd.

[jcorbin121]

I booted off the MFSLive CD, plugged in the USB enclosure, but the drive wont mount:

mfslive# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /dos

mount: mounting /dev/sda on /dos failed

what am i doing wrong in the mount? I tried using ext2, ext3, auto... to no avail

[BTUx9]

you need to use a specific partition... /dev/sda is the drive, the root partition is either /dev/sda4 or /dev/sda7

use bootpage -p to see which one

[jcorbin121]

I'm an idiot - Worked great, thanks so much!

john