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DTivo Turbonet Upgrade Gone Awry
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Posted by: deanlyman

First of all, the posters on this forum are outstanding. (You know when someone starts their post like this, they're going to ask for help so I won't disappoint.)

This morning I was installing the TurboNET card on my SAT-T60. I originally started following Steve Jenkins Newbie Guide, but found halfway through that doesn't apply to the DTivos. Found the Silicon Dust guide, followed it (except didn't back-up, realizing now that I should have!) to the end and get a CANNOT BOOT KERNAL message.

The flash step might not have worked, I was fiddling with some cables and didn't actually see the "glitch" and the reboot.

I found this thread:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...?threadid=90532
which seems to indicate I need to re-enable the initrd? How is that done? Then if I need to do the flash step again, will that hurt anything? What about the fact that I've already done the nic_install when I apparently didn't need to?

All help is appreciated... my wife is giving me the "If you don't fix this....." look.

Thanks

Posted by: deanlyman

Help please!

No TiVo for the weekend.... (gasp) ... suffering ... TiVo withdrawal ...

Posted by: jafa

Hi,

If it can't boot the kernel then tivoflash did not run correctly.

Run tivoflash again and let the tivo boot.

Nick

Posted by: deanlyman

Nick,

Thanks for your response. I hope we're able to get this working. Now when I run the /tivoflash/install command, I get the following:

.... (Normal messages I think)
Unmounting in-active Root ...
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
ERROR: Unmount of '/mnt/tivo' failed.
ERROR: The exit code was 16.
ERROR: Cannot continue.

...then back to the prompt. What can I delete to make space? The Now Playing was quite full, but as I can't get it to boot, I can't go and delete things. There are shows on there that I'd prefer to keep if possible.

Additional info, I did follow the Steve Jenkins newbie guide and put the files he recommended on there already into the /var/hack directory. Could I delete those to free up space?

Again thanks for your help, I'll be online until late looking for a response.

-Dean