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Going Crazy Here: Help with image reinstall please!
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Posted by: dsmith48

My TiVo took a dump. I am trying to reinstall my original A drive image tivo.bak to a new 60GB drive which will be my new A.

I have no intentions on adding a B at this moment.

I have my fat32 drive with tivo.bak on C: set as master plugged into the Primary Master IDE. I have my 60GB (new drive) set as slaved plugged into my Primary Slave IDE. My CD ROM is set as slave and plugged into the Secondary Slave IDE. Currently nothing is plugged into the Secondary Master IDE.

I mount the C: drive with:

mkdir /mnt/dos

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

I run:

mfsrestore -s 127 -zpi /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

And then I get the error:

/mnt/dos/tivo.bak: No such file or directory

Can anyone please help!

Posted by: Robert S

Perhaps your C: drive isn't hda1? Try mounting hda2 or hda5 instead.

Posted by: ronsch

If you have it mounted correctly you should be able to do a ls -l /mnt/dos and be able to see tivo.bak.

Posted by: dsmith48

quote:
Originally posted by ronsch
If you have it mounted correctly you should be able to do a ls -l /mnt/dos and be able to see tivo.bak.

Tried the mounting to hda1 & hda5 and no dice...

I typed

'ls -l /mnt/dos' (with l being lowercase L)

And it replied: total 0

Posted by: ronsch

quote:
Originally posted by dsmith48
I mount the C: drive with:

[i]imkdir /mnt/dos

I'm assuming this is just a typo and you really keyed in:

mkdir /mnt/dos

??

Which drives actually show up when you boot the mfstools cd?

Posted by: Robert S

More to the point, you should see the partition table for your Windows drive printed out. How many partitions are listed?

Posted by: dsmith48

Yes, ronsch that was a typo. I am confident I typed in the correct information. Put it this away, I am confident I typed in the correct information at the very least once, considering I've tried this over and over. lol

As for the Windows drive. Although I am not in front of my home computer now, I am sure it only has one primary partition. I know this because I specifically wiped out this drive, set up a new partition, formatted it, and then installed Windows 98. It was an extra drive in which I intended to use specifically for this purpose being that I have W2K on my home computer. I then took the tivo.bak cd I made some time back and transfered that file to the C: directory.

I know you guys are trying to help, and I thank you very much. But this is driving me crazy.

:mad:

Posted by: Robert S

OK, lets assume your C: drive is hda1. Once you've mounted it, what does the output of mount and df look like?

Posted by: derick881

You can just boot up windows98 and use windows explorer to view the files on your windows hard drive. If your tivo.bak file is there you will see it. I recently restored my backup from my dos drive and it failed at first but a check showed that I had some how saved the file as "tivo.BAK" The uppercase letters make a difference in linux.

Posted by: dsmith48

When I originally upgraded my TiVo, the tivo.bak was placed on my C: drive after the backup process. I then burned the tivo.bak to a CD for storage and deleted tivo.bak from my C: drive.

Now that I am trying to restore, am I going about it the right way by simply copying tivo.bak from the CD-ROM to my C: drive?

Posted by: Robert S

That's certainly the easiest way as it matches the instructions in Hinsdale.

You can try getting it off the CD directly by doing

mount /dev/hdd /mnt/dos

Assuming your CD is secondary master.

Posted by: dsmith48

quote:
Originally posted by Robert S
OK, lets assume your C: drive is hda1. Once you've mounted it, what does the output of mount and df look like?

From the prompt I type mount and I get:

/dev/fd2 on / type minix (rw)
mone on /proc type proc (rw)

When I type df I get:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 15863 11301 4562 71% /

Although this is all chinese to me...

Posted by: Robert S

Is that before or after you mounted hda1?

Posted by: dsmith48

after... is that bad?

Posted by: Robert S

Yeah. I'd have expected to a see a line saying /dev/hda1 on /mnt/dos (rw) if hda1 had mounted.

Posted by: dsmith48

First off I would like to thank everyone that assisted in this thread! :)

I 'think' perhaps I am getting somewhere at this point. As you may have read above I could not seem to restore the tivo.bak image. I was trying to take my image of the stock 20GB drive that came with the HDR-212 and place that image on my new 60GB maxtor that I had lying around.

The A (TiVo's stock 20GB drive) and B (the 120GB drive I added) drives that I had been using for the last year were removed and placed on the back burner for now. This is why I was trying to restore from my image to a new 60GB drive which will now be my new A drive.

The problem:
When typing in the needed info to restore the backup I was entering

mfsrestore(1 space)-s(1 space)127(1 space)-xzpi(1 space)/mnt/dos/tivo.bak(1 space)/dev/hdc

Instead of

mfsrestore(2 spaces)-s(1 space)127 (1 space)-xzpi(3 spaces)/mnt/dos/tivo.bak(2 spaces)/dev/hdc

Do you see the difference in spaces? I did, but for some reason didn't think that they were there for any particular reason.

Since pluggin everything back in, TiVo showed the software version of 2.5.1-01-1-000. I imagine this is the software version that was being used when I created the backup. I manually forced TiVo to dial in and it updated the software to 3.0.01-1-000. It also made a change to reflect my lifetime subscription in which I did not have when the update was made. After it rebooted it still told me I needed to call in for program data. I was surprised it did not do this the first time it called and updated the software. Currently I am in the process of that call being made to update the program guide.

My only concern at this point is that TiVo still shows my available recording time as what was seen when TiVo was stock. It does not reflect the fact that the replaced drive is now 60GB. Instead of the 20GB is was when the image was created. Any suggestions would be appriciated.

I am off to research this new problem! :p

Edit: ACK! It took out my spaces... Therefore I added some text.

Posted by: stormsweeper

The spaces aren't it. Your drive wasn't mounting before for some reason. When it did mount, you were able to restore.

Also, are you using the new MFS Tools boot CD, or the same CD you did back when you did your original upgrade?

Posted by: derick881

After reinstalling your image to your new drive you have to run "mfsadd" per the hinsdale instructions before it will recognize your true drive size.