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#11 Swap > 127 not initialized

Release 2.0
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nobody
Restore (4)
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2005-08-19
2005-08-19
Anonymous
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The "-s" option on the restore allows you to specify
the new swap size. This is necesaru for larger drive
support. When the size specified is greater than 127Mb,
the swap space is not initialized properly, but no
errors are generated. The swap space IS allocated, but
the header is wrong.

When the Tivo is started it fails to boot because the
swap space won't initialize. Workaround is to run
another software called "tpip" with the following flags

tpip v1.1 : tpip -s --swapped /dev/<drive>
tpip v1.2 : tpip -s -1 /dev/<drive>

tpip seems to write out the right header info so that
swap is properly initialized. Tested with "-s 192"
worked fine. Other sizes reported working as well.

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