Tivo Series 2 Hardware

badgers · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 680 Location: Madison, WI

Is it possible to buy a Tivo series 2 and wipe the drive clean and install gentoo and MythTV?
I am looking at 500 bucks to build a PVR with a hauppauge 350 and I can get a tivo series 2 for 100 bucks, and get a bigger hard drive for 50 bucks after rebates.
From another thread I could use LVM2 to tie the two drives together as one logical volume.

any help or ideas?
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

badgers · l33t Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 680 Location: Madison, WI

I posted this here since I figured if I could get the kernel to run on this hardware the rest could be possible.

I didn't really want to put this in multimedia since I am not sure I could get even that far.
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Abit KD7-S
Athlon XP2500+
166mHz FSB
512 Meg PC3200 Ram running at 166mHz
LiteOn DVD dual Layer burner(hdc)

2.6.17 Suspend2 kernel with no scsi support

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

Any update as to whether you got this to work? I'd love to put MythTV of FreeVo on a Series 2.

KB7OEB · Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:37 am Post subject:

Tivo builds protection into the hardware so it only runs signed kernels, it can be bypassed but it takes more work IMHO than building a mythtv box.

tld · Veteran Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 1850

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoisation

That was an issue addressed in GPL3. I've always found that to be amazingly sleazy on Tivo's part. They obviously knew they were violating the spirit of the GPL if not the letter. Yea...I'll take my myth boxes any day.

Tom