Oh yeah, definitely. I did that several times. While there is no label on the partition,
it is listed as sda4, with a type of "Linux". I assume that means ext2 or ext3? I won't touch
the other partitiions, except to view them.

Where to now, boss?

shplad

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Hi shplad,

Check your format syntax, watch the case, nums & letters. You should be able to format it.
Here is what I run as a script, tweak as you need.


and these or simular need to exsist in /etc/fstab so you can do a mount /dev/sda4

/dev/sda3 /cache auto defaults,auto 0 2
/dev/sda4 /myth auto defaults,auto 0 2

you should be able to specify ext3 in place of the auto (myth)

Mike

Well, I had a hunch, and tried just booting to Knoppix from the KnoppMyth CD.
I managed to format /dev/sda4 with ext3. (God knows why). I then rebooted,
and KnoppMyth booted from the hard drive, mounting /dev/sda4 succesfully.

However, it looks like somehow, I managed to erase the .bz2 archive I had created
when backing up the /myth folder. I don't know how, as I swear I double and triple-checked
for the archive, but perhaps I left it in the Myth folder or something and that got blown away.

Was there anything in there that I can't reproduce? If there isn't, can I just recreate
the directory structure and have Myth work again?

Thanks


shplad

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Hi shplad,
Since I was up waiting for the jolly fat man to bring the kids some Christmas things......

Congrats on getting the sda4 formated.
Try an umount /dev/sda4 then ls /myth to see if your "stuff" isn't still there.

If so, mkdir /mnt/sda4 and try a mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 Then do a cp -r /myth/* /mnt/sda4/ When done, umount /mnt/sda4 and then do mount /myth

Mike

Mike:

Thanks for the info. You can bet I wasn't expecting any answers this evening.
As it turns out, I just manually recreated some of the directory structure on /dev/sda4
and Myth started working, with so far only a couple of glitches.

First, the backend doesn't seem to start automatically. I had to start it manually. No idea why.
Where is it again I'm supposed to check the mythbackend is inserted for automatic load at boot?


Second, many Myth functions seems to work, but when I try to play an mp3 in Mythmusic,
I get "Mythmusic has encountered the following error: DecoderMAD: Failed to
open input. Error 5" I'm definitely making progress here. Oh, did I mention that
BOTH tuners work simultaneously now?


Shplad

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Hi,
Check your setup for the music path, not as senior moments kick in once in awhile

Did you try the umount of /dev/sda4 and then do ls of /myth ?
If it was an upgrade it all should be there.

Mike

Ok, well, thanks to all of you, I have a working Mythbox again. All functions I've tried
so far seem to work. I can even schedule and record two shows in the same timeslot.

Only problem that remains is a minor one-Mythbackend doesn't start automatically.
Can anyone remind me where is the standard (out of the box) place to put the statement to
make it run on bootup?

Aside from not having the /myth partition set up correctly, I noticed something which
I was hoping could be clarified. In the KnoppMyth wiki, the text reads:

"You should now see six options. Choose Option 4. Load config. You should now see
/KNOPPIX/knoppmyth. Press <ENTER>. If you have an SATA drive, change this to
/KNOPPIX/knoppmyth-sata and press <ENTER>."

Now I must admit, on initial install, I forgot to type in the full path, I just typed "knopmyth-sata".
At that point, KnoppMyth complained that was not a recognized command. Was that part
of where I went wrong? Does that correct the device statements in fstab, or does it do
something more than that?

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