hi ppl how can i make skystar2 work on linvdr

I'm not sure, but I think error 18 means that mbr is bad. If so, you can try to repair it with SuperGrubDisk. You can download it eg here: http://www.linux-beginnerforum.de/upload/index.php?act=category&id=15
But as the installation of linvdr is easy, maybe you should try to install it again.

Good luck !
Kamikaze

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18 <-read more about error 18, install linvdr new. Or first try to install Linvdr0.6, anf then install linvdr0.7. The Grub install within Linvdr0.7 is sometimes a little buggy.

First read this
http://linvdr.org/projects/linvdr/index.en.php

Yes you need better Hardware:
The VDR ist for use with one FullFeatured-(SAT)-Card (with a Hardware mpeg-decoder on board)
Or one Budget-Card and one Outputdevice, this can be a drx3-Card (also a Hardware-mpeg-decoder) or Softdevice (a Software-mpeg-Decoder via VGA-card).
For Softdevice you need above 1GHz-Cpu and many know-how to get it to work for you.

If you want to view DivX on your VDR (with a FF-Card) you need minimal 1GHz.

A LinVDR is its work worth, mine runn like a clockwork, and none buyable reciver can do so mutch like a VDR.

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Original von Kamikaze
I'm not sure, but I think error 18 means that mbr is bad. If so, you can try to repair it with SuperGrubDisk. You can download it eg here: http://www.linux-beginnerforum.de/upload/index.php?act=category&id=15
But as the installation of linvdr is easy, maybe you should try to install it again.

Good luck !
Kamikaze

And I would try to install a newer version, e.g. my ISO based on linvdr 0.7 (see signature link). But without Full Featured DVB-Card (means a card with _Hardware_ MPeg Decoder) you will not see anything with this computer. 400MHz are much too slow for software decoding.

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