siegel
04-09-2011, 07:38 PM
Good { morning, afternoon, evening },
I'm trying to replace the hard drive in my Tivo HD, and having a little trouble getting InstantCake to do my bidding. I also realize that I'm pushing the envelope a bit - I'm using VMware Fusion 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.7, on a six-core Mac Pro. The drive I'm trying to prep is a 250GB Barracuda ES, connected through a USB->SATA adapter. (As I said, I'm pushing the envelope a bit…)
Getting a virtual machine set up and booting InstantCake is no problem, but I find that after the "Just hit <enter> and we will begin baking your InstantCake", IC does not wait for me to confirm anything else. Instead, it runs and auto-detects "SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)" which is the correct drive. Then, a few more lines of configuration feedback ("Write Protect is off", "assuming drive cache: write through", and both of those messages actually appear twice), and then:
sda: unknown partition table
sd 1:0:0:0 Attached scsi disk sda
...and then nothing. InstantCake appears to hang at this point, although control-C will kill the script and put me back at the "#" prompt.
I believe the "unknown partition table" is OK, because the drive has been zeroed and is unformatted. What I'm not sure about is whether InstantCake is getting confused because it's expecting to see a SATA or PATA device (it doesn't ask me which I'm using, although the instructions suggest that it should) and only sees the pseudo-SCSI device served up by the VMware host. And of course, any insight into why the script is hanging would be great.
I think I might have an old PC in mothballs somewhere, but I'd prefer to avoid hauling it out. (And installing the replacement drive in the Mac is unfortunately a nonstarter, because the InstantCake image won't boot Macs, and VMware won't serve up internal SATA devices to virtual machines.) On the other hand, if my problem is addressable by something on my end, or changes to InstantCake, then that might be a huge win for the intersection of Mac users and Tivo users...
Thanks for any advice!
I'm trying to replace the hard drive in my Tivo HD, and having a little trouble getting InstantCake to do my bidding. I also realize that I'm pushing the envelope a bit - I'm using VMware Fusion 3.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.7, on a six-core Mac Pro. The drive I'm trying to prep is a 250GB Barracuda ES, connected through a USB->SATA adapter. (As I said, I'm pushing the envelope a bit…)
Getting a virtual machine set up and booting InstantCake is no problem, but I find that after the "Just hit <enter> and we will begin baking your InstantCake", IC does not wait for me to confirm anything else. Instead, it runs and auto-detects "SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)" which is the correct drive. Then, a few more lines of configuration feedback ("Write Protect is off", "assuming drive cache: write through", and both of those messages actually appear twice), and then:
sda: unknown partition table
sd 1:0:0:0 Attached scsi disk sda
...and then nothing. InstantCake appears to hang at this point, although control-C will kill the script and put me back at the "#" prompt.
I believe the "unknown partition table" is OK, because the drive has been zeroed and is unformatted. What I'm not sure about is whether InstantCake is getting confused because it's expecting to see a SATA or PATA device (it doesn't ask me which I'm using, although the instructions suggest that it should) and only sees the pseudo-SCSI device served up by the VMware host. And of course, any insight into why the script is hanging would be great.
I think I might have an old PC in mothballs somewhere, but I'd prefer to avoid hauling it out. (And installing the replacement drive in the Mac is unfortunately a nonstarter, because the InstantCake image won't boot Macs, and VMware won't serve up internal SATA devices to virtual machines.) On the other hand, if my problem is addressable by something on my end, or changes to InstantCake, then that might be a huge win for the intersection of Mac users and Tivo users...
Thanks for any advice!