Mounting HDD in MeoBoot

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Hi, I have a fresh installation of BH 2.0.1.

1. First I updated Bootloader as of this thread.
2. Then installed BH 2.0.1 in internal flash as of this tread:
3. I then updated BH by online BH image updater.
4. After that i installed MeoBoot on a 32GB USB-stick formatted with ext3 and 100MB Fat32 as matrix10 in this thread suggests.
5. At last i innstalled BH 2.0.1 in meoboot and updated online.

But when I connect my 150GB HDD and go into Devices Manager I only have the choice to mount it as /media/meoboot.

How should i proceed to get this mounted for videorecording?
I have read this thread, but i do not want to use /universes.
Any tips is much appreciated!

Past2Present · Mar 4, 2013

What you can try is start the flash image in meoboot, check if your devices are mounted correctly, if yes.
Make a personal backup on the usb stick, start your blackhole image in meoboot and start your personal backup and set devices to yes and see if your lucky.

grt.

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Thank you, I will try it and tell you how it goes.

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Past2Present said:
What you can try is start the flash image in meoboot, check if your devices are mounted correctly, if yes.
Make a personal backup on the usb stick, start your blackhole image in meoboot and start your personal backup and set devices to yes and see if your lucky.

grt.

Darn..

did not work.. mounted the HDD as /media/hdd in original flash image.. restartet box.. checked that mount still was OK.. backed up as personal backup on /media/USB and restored it after booting up the USB-image in meoboot.. no difference.. still "NOT MAPPED" in devices manager.. and only option is still /media/meoboot

hmmm...

Can you think of something else i can try?

Past2Present · Mar 4, 2013

What do you got inside the file fstab in /etc/fstab

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Is it possible to manually write in the location for mountpoints somewhere?

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Past2Present said:
What do you got inside the file fstab in /etc/fstab

Code:

rootfs              /                    auto      defaults              1 1
proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0
devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0
usbdevfs            /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      defaults              0 0
#/dev/mtdblock2      /boot                jffs2      rw                    0 0
tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      mode=0755            0 0
tmpfs                /dev/shm            tmpfs      mode=0777            0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2830e028-3498-4562-8fae-c8c7d7ac8d7a    /media/usb    auto  defaults    0  0

Past2Present · Mar 4, 2013

Now look in the one you`ve got in your flash image, normally it should be something like this.

Code:

rootfs              /                    auto      defaults              1 1
proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0
devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0
usbdevfs            /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      defaults              0 0
/dev/mtdblock2      /boot                jffs2      rw                    0 0
tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      mode=0755            0 0
tmpfs                /dev/shm            tmpfs      mode=0777            0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/1405-46DF    /media/personal    auto  defaults    0  0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/effe3a3b-4a54-443f-1997-aac1bc79e69f    /media/usb    auto  defaults    0  0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f6467b90-0260-4b6e-a652-050000171e59    /media/hdd    auto  defaults    0  0

2 partitions for the usb stick and 1 for the hdd

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

It's identical :/

Code:

rootfs              /                    auto      defaults              1 1
proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0
devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0
usbdevfs            /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      defaults              0 0
#/dev/mtdblock2      /boot                jffs2      rw                    0 0
tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      mode=0755            0 0
tmpfs                /dev/shm            tmpfs      mode=0777            0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2830e028-3498-4562-8fae-c8c7d7ac8d7a    /media/usb    auto  defaults    0  0

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

I just double checked if HDD was still mounted in "flash-image". It is.

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

I have not initialised it though.. just formatted in Fat32 from PC and connected and mounted in uv+solo

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

partitioning and formating as ext3 via usb wizard now.. lets see if that helps...

darian23 · Mar 4, 2013

it's not identical
telnet to your box and enter
fdisk -l
that's l for LIMA

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

Code:

BlackHole 2.0.1 vusolo
 
vusolo login: root
root@vusolo:~# fdisk -l
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock0: 121 MB, 121634816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock1: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock2: 4 MB, 4194304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock2 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock3: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock3 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock4: 0 MB, 524288 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock4 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock5: 0 MB, 524288 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock5 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock6: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
Disk /dev/mtdblock6 doesn't contain a valid partition table
 
Disk /dev/sda: 31.6 GB, 31641829376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3846 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1              1        3832    30780508+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2            3833        3846      112455  c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
 
Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/sdc1              1      19457  156288352  83 Linux
root@vusolo:~#

darian23 · Mar 4, 2013

and fstab entries again please

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

integrated flash-image fstab:

Code:

rootfs              /                    auto      defaults              1 1
proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0
devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0
usbdevfs            /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      defaults              0 0
#/dev/mtdblock2      /boot                jffs2      rw                    0 0
tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      mode=0755            0 0
tmpfs                /dev/shm            tmpfs      mode=0777            0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2830e028-3498-4562-8fae-c8c7d7ac8d7a    /media/usb    auto  defaults    0  0

image on USB fstab:

Code:

rootfs              /                    auto      defaults              1 1
proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0
devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0
usbdevfs            /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      defaults              0 0
#/dev/mtdblock2      /boot                jffs2      rw                    0 0
tmpfs                /var/volatile        tmpfs      mode=0755            0 0
tmpfs                /dev/shm            tmpfs      mode=0777            0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2830e028-3498-4562-8fae-c8c7d7ac8d7a    /media/usb    auto  defaults    0  0

darian23 · Mar 4, 2013

your hdd is not seen by flash image. Just USB.
I believe you initialised your hdd, partitioned and formatted it.
I had exactly the same problem with my usb hdd.
Try to re-flash original (vu - not bh) image and perform USB format of your HDD - if it is USB hdd (I know it's been formatted already, but try again with different image - I mean - original one)
Then mount it as HDD in original image.
Then flash BH 201 then mount your hdd as hdd.
Mount your USB stick.
Perform online update.
Don't edit fstab if you're using device manager.
That was the way I needed to do to mount my usb hdd. There were some changes in fstab, I believe, which did not allow me to mount my hdd at all.
I lost all of my data, but there was no way to mounted it as hdd.

Don't use meoboot until your drive is seen by flash image.

Sturlus stugi · Mar 4, 2013

ok, i will see if i get the time to do that this weekend.. it does take its time to flash and configure everything again and again... but thanks for your effort.. i will get back to you when it is done.. i guess i can downoad original vu image from their site? same flashing procedure?

edit: and the wife gets angry when she cant watch tv... ;-) hehe

darian23 · Mar 4, 2013

And at least - before using meoboot - please post your fstab entries in here.
Thanks

darian23 · Mar 4, 2013

Sturlus stugi said:
ok, i will see if i get the time to do that this weekend.. it does take its time to flash and configure everything again and again... but thanks for your effort.. i will get back to you when it is done.. i guess i can downoad original vu image from their site? same flashing procedure?

edit: and the wife gets angry when she cant watch tv... ;

yes, it is. Exactly the same. I used old 179-3 actually and it worked.
Just one question: can you telnet to your box and enter command: top
and copy your result in here please.
I'll be very kind

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