Cannot edit files on Instantcaked DirecTV Tivo

[moretoyswins]

I purchased Instantcake back in May of 2006, just finally got to setting up the networking side of it. I have telnet working but I am unable to edit any files, that is I cannot save them.

When I try to execute commands like id, su, chown, ... I get "Illegal Instruction". All of /gotomydvr and /ptvupgrade are owned by user 500, group 200, there is no /etc/passwd or /etc/group to modify but as uid 0 (I believe that is default uid for telnet) I should be able to edit anything.

I am running on a Series 1 DirecTV Tivo (Sony SAT T60).

Any help would be appreciated!

moretoyswins

[SilvrDrgn]

You probably need to mount the root filesystem as writable first. Execute the command:

mount -o remount,rw /

Then edit your files. Finally, execute this:

mount -o remount,ro /

to change it back to read only. To make whatever changes to did the files take effect, you'll probably have to restart the Tivo.

[moretoyswins]

You probably need to mount the root filesystem as writable first. Execute the command:

mount -o remount,rw /

Then edit your files. Finally, execute this:

mount -o remount,ro /

to change it back to read only. To make whatever changes to did the files take effect, you'll probably have to restart the Tivo.

Feel a little dumb for that one but at least it is working. Now I can try to figure out how to upgrade to a newer version of TivoWebPlus since I am at version 1.3.1.

Thank-you,

moretoyswins