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Newbie in Welcome/Reboot Loop Post-Upgrade!
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Posted by: GreggBert

Let me start by saying that I've NEVER seen Linux before starting this upgrade, and have only opened my PC once or twice before. Hinsdale's instructions were great, very simple even for someone like me. However, now I appear to be in trouble.

I've got a 30-hour Sony Series 1 Standalone, and I'm adding a 120GB Maxtor as a B drive. I used the "old" version of the upgrade software, since after reading through the threads I was concerned that the new version had not yet been fully tested.

All of the Linux commands went fine. I put both drives into my TiVo and was stuck on the "Welcome" screen for about 30 minutes, so I unplugged and disconnected the new B drive. The A booted up just fine, so I unplugged again and re-connected the B, double-checking my connections. Success, I now had 183 hours! I played for a bit, extending the life of a few programs, and unplugged so I could bring it back to my office to put the cover back on.

When I brought it back to my TV, I was once again getting the "Welcome" screen. Disconnected the B again, and now I'm in a "reboot loop" for A-only bootups. I'm assuming that once I extended the lengths of those programs, it started using the B drive and now I can't boot without it.

I did make an A-backup onto my PC, so I realize that's an option (losing my saved programs), but I can't get past the fact that it worked just fine before I put the cover back on! Am I missing something obvious? Should I give the "Welcome" screen more than 10-15 minutes to work? Help!

GreggBert, TiVo owner for 2 years and FINALLY got up the nerve to try this upgrade.......

Posted by: weaknees

You are right that once you put the B drive in, you can't use the TiVo without it - and this points to the most likely possibiity: when you put the cover back on, could you have loosened either the power or the IDE cable from either drive or the motherboard or power supply?

Michael

Posted by: GreggBert

I've tightened and retighted the connections multiple times, and at your suggestion just went through them all again. Still nothing.

Is it at all possible that I should be giving the Welcome screen more than 10 minutes to work? The one time that I got the system to recognize the second drive it blipped by the Welcome screen in about 3 seconds, so now once it takes more than 5 minutes I'm just shutting it off.

Posted by: GreggBert

I'm starting to get fidgety, and need to do SOMETHING, but I'm hesitant to overreact since there are about 20 hours of recordings sitting on my A drive.

If I were to remove the B and re-Bless it, could that fix the problem? Or is it now permanently married to my A, and I need to reload my original image to make both work?

Posted by: GreggBert

Okay, at this point I've decided to just take the backup image of my original A drive and use it to create a brand-new imaged A from my new Maxtor 120. However, the qunlock utility (which has been working fine the 100-or-so times I've used it over the last 2 days) has stopped working on the drive. I've tried moving the drive from primary slave to secondard master, and adjusting the qunlock command (qunlock 2 instead of qunlock 1), it still doesn't help.

Something else that may be contributing to the problem here: my PC would not recognize the Maxtor at all in the "slave" jumper position, so I've been doing everything from a "cable select" position, then moving it back into slave when I put it back into the TiVo. Don't know if this has any impact or not.

Bottom line: I seem to have a corrupted (reboot loop) original A drive and a non-working B drive that I can't even unlock to turn into an A image.

Please please please give me ideas! I'm snowed in today and can't just sit here with my favorite toy in pieces....