Free sat box taking an age to boot

vicwatson

Works fine when it boots, just takes about 30 mins

Any fix to this or is it on its last legs?

Capt'n Midnight

What model ?

Could be the HDD. - is it making clickky noises ?

Could be the power supply.

If you are using a Foxsat HDR with the custom firmware you can use a Maintenance Mode - 'fix-disk' check and repair utility to sort out sofware errors and do a disc scan.

To enable maintenance mode it is simply a matter of opening a telnet session and entering the 'fix-disk' command.
The Foxsat-HDR will then display some information about the utility, after which a reboot into maintenance mode will be initiated.
Once rebooted, re-open a telnet session and enter the 'fix-disk' command once again. Then sit back for an hour or so while it does it's magic.
A log file of e2fsck partition checking operations will be created at /mnt/hd1/fix-disk.log. This can safely be deleted.

Linux gurus can initiate maintenance mode manually by entering the command 'touch /usr/data/.MAINTENANCE_MODE' then rebooting.
All of the above mentioned utilities are then available to you should you wish to perform partition checking without the aid of the 'fix-disk' script.
A second reboot restores the Foxsat-HDR to normal set top box operation.

Atlantic Dawn

What % full is the hard drive?

Harry Palmr

Blimey I thought the 45 seconds my Manhattan takes was a bit tardy.

Capt'n Midnight

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

What % full is the hard drive?

Oh yeah, you can tell if every menu item takes forever


Sometimes it's the number of things saved in the main folder, so start there

vicwatson

Thanks for replies


Doesnt have a hard drive, its a Humax, can't remember the model number (in work, can post later) it's about 8 years old, its a HD box anyway

Capt'n Midnight

This one ?

https://humax-foxsat-not-booting.webs.com/

vicwatson

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

This one ?

https://humax-foxsat-not-booting.webs.com/

that link won’t load