Attempts using Dreambox 7000

[tennisod]

Happy New Year All,

My problem is I cannot get my Dreambox 7000 working. I tried everything to make it work and it was unsuccessful. I tried Gemini, Gbuster, Nitro images with Evo 1.2 add-ons, and etc. I did everything what I could to keep my DB alive and working. Followed Geno PDF guides and other sources like other Dreambox forums. I am about to give up unless, you guys help me to figure it out what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.
tennisod

First typing black in a black screen is very hard on the eyes.

Now that i got that off my chest i will look into your issue.

That Dreambox model is completly different from the others. It looks to be european. I am not to familiar with Dreambox so i don't claim to be an expert.

There are some websites specially for this unit, and in one of them i found the following. Give it a try:

C&P from another site.

Bij following this procedure it is possible to run a newer version of enigma with ORIGINAL images. I have tested this with release 1.02 and beta1.04a images. This procedure assumes that you are using /hdd/new_root for installation directory.

• Download script prepare.sh. and ftp to /var/tmp. The purpose of this script is to simplify the installation of the new enigma. You only need to run this scripts once. If you later on download a newer enigma you can just unpack it over the old one. The script prepare.sh does the following:
  • copy /bin /sbin /lib /etc /var to /hdd/new_root.
  • Create startup script for starting new enigma: /var/tuxbox/start_new_enigma
• Run script
  • sh /var/tmp/prepare.sh
• Download latest enigma and ftp to /var/tmp
• unpack enigma<date>.tar.gz in /hdd/new_root
  • cd /hdd/new_root
  • gzip -dc /var/tmp/enigma<date>.tar.gz | tar xf -
• replace in /var/tuxbox/start_enigma the line
  • /bin/enigma
• by
  • /var/tuxbox/start_new_enigma

That is all, you only need to reboot. Do you want, at a later time, to run a newer enigma you don't need to run prepare.sh just do the unpack commands.

I made a safty fallback into my start_new_enigma script. If enigma crashes within 2 minutes, my script will wait a while before doing the /sbin/halt. So it is possible in the case that enigma crashes to change the /var/tuxbox/start_enigma script again to the original state via telnet. To make sure that you can telnet to your DB I suggest to configure the network interface before starting enigma. This can be done by adding the following line in start_enigma before starting enigma:

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.29.150 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Don't forget to replace IP and Netmask with your values.

[EVD]

Have you tried going to dreamboxfornewbies.org ,all they do is Dreambox

[tennisod]

I tried all the guides available.
I will try it and use the instructions written above tonight. I will give you the respond tomorrow.
Thanks to all, I appreciate for your help.
tennisod