Release Note:
MFSLive Release v1.0  1-24-2007

MFSLive is a Linux Live boot CD just for TiVo users. Most of the basic
tools are included in the release to make adding, upgrading and replacing your
TiVo ard drive a snap.

As many of you know, current release of mfstools 2.0 boot CD and many
variations of the CD out there have few bugs: 

1. Alternate root/kernel size bug 
2. Swap greater than 127GB will fail due to bad signature for linux swap v1.

Also, you no longer need to reboot after restore. Unlike previous release of
mfstools, partition table is refreshed after restore. 

Few other bug fixes and improvements are made to mfstools.

In addition, linux kernel and drivers are updated to suppport
newer hardware so it will be lot faster in newer machines.
Kernel is LBA48 aware as well.

Known Issue:
Currently this CD does not boot on AMD K6-2, VIA C3 based machines.

 
This boot cd will support Serial ATA (SATA), USB drives, USB flash stick as well as 

IDE devices will be mounted:

hda (primary master) 
hdb (primary slave) 
hdc (secondary master) 
hdd (secondary slave)
hde (w/ pci ide card) 
hdf (w/ pci ide card)
hdg (w/ pci ide card)
hdh (w/ pci ide card)

USB and SATA devices will be mounted: 

sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde 

 
To mount dos drive 

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /dos 

To mount cdrom:

mount /cdrom 

or

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom


To mount a USB flash stick or USB drive: 

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /dos


To view partition info:

pdisk -l /dev/hdd

 

Using Drives Greater Than 250GB 

Most old computers' bios don't support hard drives larger than 250GB so
reported size will be wrong. This is ok if you are using mfstools. 

 

Using USB to IDE adapter 

If you are using USB to IDE adapter, make sure your device support large hard
drives. Most of the ones out there can support upto 400GB. Good thing about
using USB is you don't have to reboot to connect drives. Just plug it in and
it should be recognized. USB is little slower though using PATA or SATA
interface. 


Byteswapping

If you want to work on TiVo Series 1 drive, byte swapping can be turned 
on/off only for hdc and hdd drives. So if you want to access root or var 
file system, mount your drive on hdc or hdd.

DMA Setting 

DMA should be tuned on by default to speed things up.
You can check the DMA setting by doing:

hdparm -d /dev/hdc 

where /dev/hdc is secondary master. 

To turn DMA on secondary master drive: 

hdparm -d1 /dev/hdc

To turn DMA off on secondary master drive: 

hdparm -d0 /dev/hdd 



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For more upto date documentation goto http://www.mfslive.org/fullguide.htm
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