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Posted by: oldchat

I followed steve jenkins instruction to mount partitions, error can not find the partitions. Thanks for any help. I am upgrading a sa212 120 gig WD
hard drive clean install of ver. 3.0

Posted by: Robert S

Which boot disk did you use?

Posted by: oldchat

The boot disk from steve jenkins site.

Posted by: Robert S

In that case I would guess that you've got your drive set up wrong.

Watch the boot sequence, you should see the partitions on the TiVo drive listed.

If they are listed, it'll tell you to the devicenodes to use (hdc4, or whatever).

If they're not listed, your drive isn't connected properly.

You're not trying to use primary master, are you? You can't connect a TiVo drive on that channel with that boot disk.

Posted by: oldchat

I rebooted with the drive on ide channel 2 set up as master, it boots up saying unknown partition table.

Posted by: Robert S

It says 'Invalid partition signature (9214, should be 1492)' on hdc? That's a byte-swapping issue, but I don't understand how that's possible.

Does the drive work in the TiVo?

Posted by: oldchat

Yes It works great it say it is a 141 hour boots with no problem. When I put the drive back on the computer it said hdc = unknown partition table
Let me say this now thanks Robert S for all your help and writing back to me. Jim C

Posted by: Robert S

I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. Presumably you're just letting the disk boot without typing in anything before the login prompt comes up.

What happens if you use a different boot disk, say TiVoMad?

Posted by: oldchat

that is what I did I used BlessTiVo Version 3 boot disk and all the partition were there. And I completed the install Thanks so much for your help. My upgrade went great. The install instruction on the web were so help I am now enjoying a upgraded tivo.I would do it again if I had another tivo.

Posted by: Robert S

As you may have noticed I recommend against using BlessTiVo as TiVoes upgrade with MFS Tools 2.0 seem to slow down less, but it's a bit late for that.

I'm not really into TiVo hacking, so I don't know the details of what you're trying to do. It should be possible to run the scripts you require without using that boot CD.

If you copy the files on the CD to your hard drive you could boot Dylan and then mount the hard drive and run the scripts from the hard drive.