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The Slicer is a tool designed to allow your modified TiVo to accept and install a software update without overwriting existing telnet/ftp or serial bash access.
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I have Slicer 1.9 and cannot get the script to install 6.3c OR 6.3e to my HR10-250 (3.1.5f).
I do not have the slices on the tivo yet, so I am trying to use the -d switch. 6.3c downloads, but does not put the slices in MFS correctly. The event switcher dies when it tries.
6.3e does not even download.
Ideas? Thoughts? Help!
I used the slicer last night to upgrade my hdrv2 from 6.3a to 6.3e. All worked well and I patched with the 6.3e patched. All looks very well but I have a problem with the sliced unit that sure wasn't happening with 6.3a. The unit has pixilation / blotching on every channel although the signal strength is excellent on every transponder / satellite. The message about not receiving signal on xxx tuner shows up. Unit is unwatchable. ANy ideas before I revert back to 6.3a?
I purchased Slicer v1.3 more than a year ago and was able to upgrade my HR10-250 from 3.1.5f to 6.3a to 6.3b to 6.3c. I've run the echo mls /SwSystem | tivosh and see the 6.3e-01-2-357 software downloaded to my system. When I try to run ./slicer 6.3e-01-2-357 , I get the following messages:
bash-2.02#
bash-2.02# echo mls /SwSystem | tivosh
Directory of /SwSystem starting at ''
Name Type FsId Date Time Size
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
6.3a-01-2-357 tyDb 572808 02/27/07 04:06 772
6.3c-01-2-357 tyDb 1147837 02/27/07 04:06 796
6.3e-01-2-357 tyDb 1946383 08/11/07 10:40 780
ACTIVE tyDb 1147837 02/27/07 04:06 796
bash-2.02# ./slicer 6.3e-01-2-357
./slicer: ?xml: No such file or directory
./slicer: !--TransferQueueItems--: No such file or directory
./slicer: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `'/slicer: line 3: `1
bash-2.02#
bash-2.02#
Any ideas?
Ellipse, if you weren't able to figure it out yet, I had the saome problem and fixed it. Here's what I did:
Downloaded
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/software/update_tool/6.3c-0.slices.tgz
named the file slices.tgz.
FTPd slices.tgz to /var/packages/
Made a script containing just the extraction part:
##########################
cd /var/packages echo "Unpacking archive..." echo "" tar xzvf slices.tgz rm -rf slices.tgz for file in /var/packages/*.gz; do echo -n "Uncompressing $file..." echo "" gzip -d $file echo "" done ./dbload ./GZcore*.slice ./dbload ./GZhpk*.slice ./dbload ./GZkernel*.slice ./dbload ./swsystem*.slice ./dbload ./utils*.slice sleep 30 echo "Now lets see if there are slices loaded..." echo "" echo mls /SwSystem | tivosh echo "" echo "Presumably, your 6.3c slices are now listed above and if that" echo "is the case, you can go ahead and run The Slicer by typing this" echo "in the directory that contains the program:" echo "" echo " ./slicer 6.3c-01-2-357" echo "" echo "Bye!" echo ""
#################################
Which I put in /var/packages and ran (as opposed to running the getslices script from)
http://www.dvrupgrade.com/software/update_tool/6.3c-get_and_load_slices
And that worked! I'm now running 6.3c on my HR10-250. So if the -d option never worked for you, give this a try.
Thanks. I was able to obtain a 1.9 version of Slicer and that worked. It looks like my 1.3 version may have been corrupted? I notice that 1.9 is 63 kB, but 1.3 was only 1 kB?
I've got The Slicer 6.3a and am looking to Slice my HR10-250 from 6.3a to 6.3e. Will this older version of The Slicer be fine?
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
I used the slicer to update my software from 6.3d to 6.3e, all went well except that my encryption no longer works and I lost my 30 second skip. The other thing that happened is that I no longer have a "network" option in my Tivo Setup, just PHONE shows up. I am able to Telnet into my Tivo, TivoWebPlus and TyTools works so I do have network comm's. Any idea?
Thanks,
Bill
Well, I sliced fine, except for one major problem: as usual, I lost all bash access via Tera Term Pro. Worse, I can't even connect via serial now. Having lost all my hacks in the process, this rather ticks me off. 
Peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power. Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
Just wanted everyone to know that the official support forums for DVRupgrade products, like the Slicer, have moved to the new DVRupgrade forums on their home site. Please difect support questions to these new forums.
Also feel free to discuss this and other DVR-related products in general in our forums.
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