DIY Upgrade Receptor Motherboard

[umd]

As for partition backup/restore, you can always try to boot with a live CD and copy the partition with gnome partition editor.

(it's pretty straightforward, connect an usb/ide cd-rom drive or something, connect the disk you want to copy the partition to, go to Administration->(something like)partition editor, and copy it).

[oGG]

First off, I'd connect both the old IDE drive and the SATA drive and boot from the old one and check if the SATA drive is identiied by the kernel.

I've done it. I get root access following the steps of the FAQ, but I don't know how to check if the SATA drive has been identified by the kernel. As I've said, today is my first day with the penguin

I've tried to execute the command /dev/sda2 but I got the message "permission denied"

K, sorry.

Try typing

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# dmesg | grep -i hd

dmesg is for displaying the kernel/boot log, grep -i hd is for printing just the lines containing hd case insensitive.

You should get something like

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hda: ST360021A, ATA DISK drive

and if I'm correct also a

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sda: WHATEVER, SATA DISK drive

And the /dev/sda2 I mentioned is the actual device. So if you're mounting the 2:nd partition on the supposed sata drive, you'd type

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# mkdir /mnt/test
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/test

first command to create the mount directory. Second to mount it.

There are litterarly thounsands of guides to Linux. Google is your friend. This one might be useful: http://www.unixguide.net/linux/linuxshortcuts.shtml

Good luck and take it easy!


--
Olle Gustafsson

[Chankro]

Thank you very much Olle.
It's time to study a little bit

[nl3]

Hi brothers,
i somewhere read a post on this forum explaining with absolute details how to clone the Receptor HD, so try to recover it amongst KVR Forums.
It is always possible i saved (or printed) it onto a file i'm searching for on my pc...
Anyway, i'm absolutely 100% sure about reading it sometime a year ago at least.

PGi.

[Norman Schmidt]

Like Muse Reasearch, I certainly wouldn't encourage anyone to do this. It would be just too much of a shame to ruin a system that is working fine. Plus I prefer spending time learning and making music rather than hacking.

But oGG's Receptor FAQ has the information you need to do in in Linux single mode. Beware that it takes a while. Cloning a 160 GB drive with "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" took 6 hours! The same with "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024" got the job done in just less than an hour. Everything seems to work fine.

Norman

[cbreeze34]

for making/copying drive images, here's a tool i use at work: http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

i've only ever used it from a CD drive, but in theory you should be able to use it from a bootable pendrive as well.

as is to be expected, use at your own risk...

[bekenone]

oops!............ I posted but its already been covered

[emunity]

Hi brothers,
i somewhere read a post on this forum explaining with absolute details how to clone the Receptor HD, so try to recover it amongst KVR Forums.
It is always possible i saved (or printed) it onto a file i'm searching for on my pc...
Anyway, i'm absolutely 100% sure about reading it sometime a year ago at least.

PGi.

Were you able to find out if SATA is recognized by the Muse Receptor 2.4 kernel?

oGG showed you the grep command.