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Help editing the rc.sysinit file with Boot Cd/Tivomad floppy
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Posted by: hinsdale

Can someone spell out simply the exact commands/steps needed to edit the rc.sysinit file with the runideturbo=false change.

Need easiest command/steps using the TiVoMad Boot floppy (v3.2) (use edit_bootparms?):

Need easiest command/steps using the Boot CD (v2.6i)(use Joe?): If your at a linux prompt can you just follow the hack faq instructions from step 3?

And perhaps spell out any potential problems with use of either of these methods on standalones or DirecTiVo's running software v1.3, v2.01, v2.5 - any chattr requirements?

Thanks in advance.

[This message has been edited by hinsdale (edited 08-27-2001).]

Posted by: kazymyr

The only commentr I can make is: there are multiple text editors on the CD to choose from: joe, which is Wordstar-like; vi, which is... well, vi; and pico, which comes in handy if you've spent years reading your email in pine, like I did. The default "edit" symlink is for joe, though.

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Posted by: hinsdale

quote:
Originally posted by kazymyr:
The only commentr I can make is: there are multiple text editors on the CD to choose from: joe, which is Wordstar-like; vi, which is... well, vi; and pico, which comes in handy if you've spent years reading your email in pine, like I did. The default "edit" symlink is for joe, though.

So if your at a linux # prompt can you just follow the hack faq instructions
http://tivo.samba.org/index.cgi?req...e=faq04.010.htp

from step 3 and at step 5 type "joe rc.sysinit" as instructed, etc? Meaning it will follow the haq faq exactly.. no adjustments need to be made?

Sorry just want to verify and dont have a TiVo drive not currently in use to test on.

Posted by: Scott Stevens

I'm trying to do it right now on a 60gig Western Digital, and if I start at step 3 I get a message that says:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

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Posted by: hinsdale

quote:
Originally posted by Scott Stevens:
I'm trying to do it right now on a 60gig Western Digital, and if I start at step 3 I get a message that says:

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

If you are unable to mount /dev/hdX4 then use /dev/hdX7.. should work for you.

Posted by: Scott Stevens

quote:
Originally posted by hinsdale:

If you are unable to mount /dev/hdX4 then use /dev/hdX7.. should work for you.

That worked fine. I moved down one line and added the runideturbo=false. I could never get hdb4 to work though.

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"Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You're not being the ball, Danny"

Scott

Posted by: nsysblh

The easiest way to do it is to add "runideturbo=false" to the boot parms.

You can run a program to edit the boot parms (bootpage on the TiVo, and something like edit_bootparms on the pc), or use the boot menu (I think it is under the extended menu, X maybe, the maybe B...)

for example:
current: root=/dev/hda4
new : root=/dev/hda4 runideturbo=false

that said, I commented that section out of my rc.sysinit. Go figure.

Posted by: Electron

I can tell you that on a Directivo setting runideturbo=false
in the rc.sysinit will not work, You must use edit_bootparms.

And if the Dtivo has ver 2.01 you must set runideturbo=false with a non quantum drive or it will not boot.

Electron

Posted by: Scott Stevens

quote:
Originally posted by Electron:
I can tell you that on a Directivo setting runideturbo=false
in the rc.sysinit will not work, You must use edit_bootparms.

And if the Dtivo has ver 2.01 you must set runideturbo=false with a non quantum drive or it will not boot.

Electron

I'm not sure what you mean by "it won't work". I did it on my DSR6000, using a Western Digital as the A drive and it booted fine.

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"Just be the ball, be the ball, be the ball. You're not being the ball, Danny"

Scott