On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Scott Souter wrote: > I have a MVP Model 86019 Rev H3 Lot 4606. I seem to have worked my way > through a fair bit of the major grief and now my MVP is stuck at the > www.mvpmc.org splash screen with four red squares and three green ones. I > assume that this could be related to my dongle.bin.config file, but I really > don't know. Here it is if someone can assist with some debugging that would > be great!
This reminded me that there's no information out there on what these different coloured squares actually mean, so I spent a bit of time looking at the startup scripts and sticking some information on a wiki page: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/startup.sequence You're stuck somewhere between the 7th and 8th square there. It sounds like it's either the tftp or something in your dongle.config that is failing. Since the telnet server should already be running (that starts between square 6 and 7), I'd start by telnetting to your mvp (login as root, no password required). The first thing to do is have a look for your dongle.bin.config file. If this successfully TFTPd then it should be in /etc/dongle.config, so try taking a look at it: # cat /etc/dongle.config should show you the contents of your /etc/dongle.config. If it doesn't then there's likely a problem with your TFTP/DHCP setup, take a look at /etc/udhcpc.config, it should come out something like: # cat /etc/udhcpc.config DONGLE=/tftpboot/dongle.bin SERVER=192.168.0.50 IP=192.168.0.57 ETH=eth0 HNAME= NTP="" If SERVER (derived from DHCP's next-server parameter) isn't set to the IP address of the machine you're running the TFTP server on then the TFTP won't work. If DONGLE isn't set to the name of your config filename with the .config taken off the end, then your TFTP will fail. Your dongle.config all looks reasonably okay, apart from a couple of things: > rdate -s time-a.nist.gov Whilst this might work, rdate is no longer the recommended way of setting/keeping the time on your MVP correct. NTP is the prefered method. Simply setting: NTP=pool.ntp.org Should be sufficient to get that to work correctly. > echo "192.168.0.50 mythtv.local.com> mythtv ">>/etc/hosts I think you're probably looking for the following: echo "192.168.0.50 mythtv.local.com mythtv ">>/etc/hosts > mkdir /data > /etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.50:/scott/home/data /data Shouldn't this be /home/scott/data not /scott/home/data? > mvpmc -f /etc/helvR10.fnt -y 192.168.0.50 -s 192.168.0.50 -r > /scott/home/data -t /usr/share/mvpmc/easy.xml --startup mythtv -u mythtv -p > mythtv -T mythconverg --vlc 192.168.0.50 & The -r parameter should contain the local path where you mounted the remote directory, so where you wrote /scott/home/data here, you should have just written /data Cheers, Simon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
