Re: Re: NOW Doh.. Killed Tivo WAS Tivo / Linux command

[David Paterson <david.paterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 22:51:30 +0100, you wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:58:35 -0000, you wrote:
>
>>ISTR that Linux doesn't need/use the BIOS to access the hard
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>>which is why you can use large disks in old machines. I would
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>>setting the BIOS to NONE and then booting the MFS CD.  I could
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>>talking total B***x though!
>>Cheers
>>Allan
>
>Another good idea, thanks.
>
>I've been busy tonight so it's now a bit late for trying stuff, but
I'll
>have a go at these suggestions tomorrow and let you know what works, in
>case anybody else gets stuck with the same problem.

Well, I tried this and it worked!  So that's handy to know for the
future :)

Unfortunately I'm not much further on, as I can't figure out how to
mount the disk once I boot into MFSTools / Unix.

It's attached as the master on the second IDE channel, so I used :-

mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/dos

but I get the following errors :-

/dev/hdc1: invalid argument
hdc1: bad access: block=3D0, count=3D1
end request: I/O error, dev 16:01 (hdc) sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
mount: you must specify the file system type

I get the same errors with the original Tivo drive, but my PC Windows
drive mounts OK as /dev/hda1.  Most odd :{

I've had a look for clues on the net but haven't found anything yet.
I'll try tomorrow from work where I've got a much faster connection and
can actually do some proper searching.

If anybody has any ideas though, please let me know.

David P.

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