[LIVE] HOW-TO mount hard disk drives on XBMC Live 9.04

vikjon0 Wrote:If you have enough skills to do it with out breaking anything you can shrink and move your existing partition and install a new / next to it.

i definitely don't have enough linux skills to do this! haha. my 1tb is nearly full anyways, so i might just go ahead and get a 2tb.

Quote:Why not start by booting from a liveCD or USB to verify that it works?

yeah so i tried this and automount does indeed work, with a lovely little popup message. BUT, for some reason none of my audio was working over HDMI, and i was getting loads of green artefacts on my videos...how peculiar. anyway that's another issue.

Sorry but I don't find syslinux.cfg Coult you told me where is?

sudo nano //syslinux.cfg

l.capriotti Wrote:Due to previous incidents where mounting local drives in special configurations lead to data corruptions, a new token has been introduced in the kernel parameter "xbmc".

By default XBMC Live does not mount fixed fisks any more; ito run the automount script at boot you need to remove the token "nodiskmount" form the kernel command line.

There are two ways to achieve this:

1. for temporary use: use the grub functionalities and edit the kernel line when booting. The change will be limited to the session only.

2. for permanent use: open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, remove the token and save the file.

Thanks, this work for me.

I'm also having trouble getting my internal drive to work. I just bought it so it's not formatted. But didn't read it should matter.

Thing is I don't have the /boot/grub/menu.lst or syslinux.cfg files.

I'm using xbmc live 10.0-beta1 r33324

I'd really appreciaty some help on this tnx!

Its changed to /etc/default/grub

You might have to format it before it can mount.

cheers

harryzimm Wrote:Its changed to /etc/default/grub

You might have to format it before it can mount.

cheers

That's what I thought, but I don't know how to format it. I tried this and this, but "ls hd*" doesn't show anything and I don't have lshw (and I don't know how to install that either) so I don't know which device my HD is. I only know I can see it in the bios.

//edit nvm.. found how to install it

From the first link you posted, start at the "fdisk -l" stage only use "sudo fdisk -l" instead (without the quotes) so you can identify your drive. Then continue with the guide.

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harryzimm Wrote:From the first link you posted, start at the "fdisk -l" stage only use "sudo fdisk -l" instead (without the quotes) so you can identify your drive. Then continue with the guide.

cheers

Ok, I have the drive working. Sort of. I followed this guide which lets me see my drive in XBMC. But I cannot copy file from main drive to the new drive. It doesn't give a specific error, it just says it doesn't work. They are both formatted as ext4.

I had my system running just the way I wanted but decided to fiddle with it and now I have had to do a re-install.

I am having a couple of problems.

I have installed beta version of Dharma.

I want to edit the menu.lst so that I can change the names of the OS and also the boot time. When I attempt this by typing sudo pico /boot/grub/menu.lst in terminal, all I get is a blank page. There is nothing in there to edit.

I also want to have my drive from my windows 7 partition visible in XBMC, no luck there either.

Quote:I want to edit the menu.lst so that I can change the names of the OS and also the boot time. When I attempt this by typing sudo pico /boot/grub/menu.lst in terminal, all I get is a blank page. There is nothing in there to edit.

It is now GRUB2 which is different.