Hack 32 Clean Up and Shut Down

After mounting TiVo's drives in your PC and fiddling with configuration files, you need to carefully clean up and shut down the PC to preserve your changes.

If you've made any changes to TiVo's configuration files, you must carefully unmount the TiVo partitions and shut down the PC to which your drives are connected, in order to make sure everything's saved as it should be. Do not just turn off your machine, or you risk leaving changes uncommitted and—worse still—leaving your TiVo partitions in an unusable state.

Unmount the partitions you mounted before, like so:

# cd /
# umount /mnt4 /mnt7 /mnt9

Of course, you should bother to unmount only the partitions you mounted in the first place; if you did not mount partition 4 at /mnt4 or partition 7 to /mnt7, leave them out of the previous command line.

If you mounted your floppy drive to copy across the Unix utilities [Hack #31], don't forget to unmount that drive too:

# umount /floppy

Notice that the command is umount (pronounced "yoo-mount") not unmount ("un-mount") as one might expect.

Now, you can issue an exit command to log you out of the Linux shell and return you to the Linux login prompt:

# exit

At this point, it's safe to Control-Alt-Delete your PC, watch it reboot, and, at the first sign it is returning to life (beginning to boot up again), turn it off.

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Now you're ready to reinstall your TiVo's drives back into TiVo [Hack #27]. That done, if your goal has been to get the Bash shell over serial connection, carry on to connecting to your TiVo with the serial cable [Hack #33].