USB wont mount

[French]

I am trying to reinstall the firmware but now my usb stick wont even mount...
It just flickers once when I put it in then goes dead and the pbo's box office logo hangs.

Is there a way I can mount the flash disk through telnet and then install the .img file through it?

[digitalemu]

Should mount by itself with no problem. Mine was formatted as fat32. Could be an incompatible USB drive as it seems to completely hang the box. Get a Kinsgston USB drive as they tend to work well for most hardware.

[aasoror]

Should mount by itself with no problem. Mine was formatted as fat32. Could be an incompatible USB drive as it seems to completely hang the box. Get a Kinsgston USB drive as they tend to work well for most hardware.

You are missing some background .. French did some customization of his box. So the fix isn't that straight forward as the original post might indicate.

[snappy46]

Here's an idea but some knowledge of linux will be required. If you look at the img firmware file you will notice some bin files in there. One seems to be for video upgrade (video_firmware.install.bin) and another one for audio upgrade (audio_firmware.install.bin). If everything else fails I would put the install.img (extracted files (all of it with the directory structure) onto the PBO box internal drive if you have one using telnet; if not put the files on the USB connect to PBO box and see if you can mount it using telnet using the linux command (mount). It might be a little tricky to find the USB mount designation (try sdb1, sdb2 etc..). Look at the Busybox linux you might be able to find the USB mount designation usually given.

If you make it that far you will have to make the bin files (video_firmware.install.bin) and (audio_firmware.install.bin) executable. After that trying running any of those two and see what happen. There might be other files in the install image that might also help with your problem; look for any other bin file and follow the same process. You may want to try the file in the bootcode update folder; there is a bin file in there that look promising.

Hopefully something will work to get you to point where a normal upgrade can be done.

This is all hypothetical and I could be totally wrong with this approach but if your media player is just a brick right now I guess you have nothing to lose. It is good that you can still telnet to your PBO box this tells me that your linux kernel is working fine.

Good Luck

[IanC]

Have you disconnected the internal hard drive, then booted with the USB stick in?

I seem to recall reading posts where that solved a similar problem for others

[aasoror]

Have you disconnected the internal hard drive, then booted with the USB stick in?

I seem to recall reading posts where that solved a similar problem for others

This might work, an important part of the system is mounted read only (so it would be hard to brick the box). removing the HDD, and hard reset (using power switch) may enable the box to pickup the USB stick.

[French]

USB light dosent come on...dont have any hdd installed either
When I use umount to check for drives it dosent even pick up the flashdisk

[French]

I think the problem came when I tried to install busybox 1.15.2 over 1.3 and not on an external/internal sata hdd and somehow it removed/corrupted some files used for mounting the hdds

[foxeye]

Can you still telnet to the box? Perhaps try putting back the original Busybox?

[French]

Hi foxeye, just saw your reply on the other post, I can still telnet, it looks thou like it removed the package folder in the tmp directory

/tmp/package/samba/lib/smb_anonymous_head.conf
/tmp/package/samba/lib/smb_user_head.conf
/tmp/package/script/samba-security: not found
/usr/local/etc/hdd/volumes/: No such file or directory

dont know if this is probably the problem?

how would I try and reinstall the original files / busybox 1.3