So now i got my box working again ~~(DM800) I now have the harrdrive issue still tried initialising (fails) and using TS panel to format (it says successful) but am unable to timeshift install/create swap manager and set crossepg location to hardrive. Any ideas i used a tutorial below:
but got lost off at the red underline as it did not want to do it any advise appreciated.
installed a 1TB Hitachi hdd in my cuberevo twin pvr running enigma2 0.50. Upon first run I ran hdd initialisation and it seemed to go through fine.
Upon reboot when i tried to record a stream it threw the error no hdd or not not initialised. So upon trying to reformat I got the "mkfs failed to format"
Using telnet I tried to manually format using:
fdisk -l (to view installed media and partitions)
hdd showed up as /dev/sda
so i created a single partition spanning 1000GB. by
fdisk /dev/sda
then type "n" to create new partition. "p" to create primary then press "1" for partition number. Finally allocate a size to the partition, I just pressed enter here to allow maximum size and then "w" to commit changes.
Next typed in
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
threw an error saying "Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock"
Key is to create a swap partition as the box runs out of ram to allocate for formatting blocks.
So using above method create two partitions
fdisk /dev/sda
press "d" to delete current partition
then "n" to create new partition following above procedure. When you get to setting size of the partition you can use "+ 'whateversize' GB" e.g. I used +990GB
similarly create partition 2 and you can press enter when it comes to allocating size as it will use remainder of disk space.
Here is where i failed all above worked perfect
to create the swap file:
mke2fs /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
Somebody did mention that you can use a spare usb to create the swapfile on. Process would be the same for creating sda2. Hopefully should save you a few MB's on your hdd.
Once it's completed creating the swap you can now format the main partition using
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Alternatively you can try formatting from enigma2 menu.
Hope it comes in handy to somebody.
Credits go to Ulyss62 from Asusforum.net
but got lost off at the red underline as it did not want to do it any advise appreciated.
installed a 1TB Hitachi hdd in my cuberevo twin pvr running enigma2 0.50. Upon first run I ran hdd initialisation and it seemed to go through fine.
Upon reboot when i tried to record a stream it threw the error no hdd or not not initialised. So upon trying to reformat I got the "mkfs failed to format"
Using telnet I tried to manually format using:
fdisk -l (to view installed media and partitions)
hdd showed up as /dev/sda
so i created a single partition spanning 1000GB. by
fdisk /dev/sda
then type "n" to create new partition. "p" to create primary then press "1" for partition number. Finally allocate a size to the partition, I just pressed enter here to allow maximum size and then "w" to commit changes.
Next typed in
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
threw an error saying "Memory allocation failed while setting up superblock"
Key is to create a swap partition as the box runs out of ram to allocate for formatting blocks.
So using above method create two partitions
fdisk /dev/sda
press "d" to delete current partition
then "n" to create new partition following above procedure. When you get to setting size of the partition you can use "+ 'whateversize' GB" e.g. I used +990GB
similarly create partition 2 and you can press enter when it comes to allocating size as it will use remainder of disk space.
Here is where i failed all above worked perfect
to create the swap file:
mke2fs /dev/sda2
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
Somebody did mention that you can use a spare usb to create the swapfile on. Process would be the same for creating sda2. Hopefully should save you a few MB's on your hdd.
Once it's completed creating the swap you can now format the main partition using
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
Alternatively you can try formatting from enigma2 menu.
Hope it comes in handy to somebody.
Credits go to Ulyss62 from Asusforum.net