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Accidently "re-blessed" my A drive, it's not working
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Posted by: noone001

Help! Very stupid mistake!

Series 1- HDR312, upgraded to 120GB. System 3.0

I was about to install my new TurboNet card and thought I should backup my drive first which I haven't done since I originally upgraded my HDR312 to 120GB single drive (with TivoMad) when I had a virgin TIVO.

I brought the drive to my office (only place I have access to a Wintel machine), hooked it up, but was having problems booting with my mfstools2 CD.

I accidentally booted up with my TivoMad floppy (I thought it was the Dylan disk) and did not realize this until it ran the script and re-expanded or re-blessed the drive, whatever you call it.

I then backed up the (screwed up?) drive with mfstools using the CD. But then I wasn't able to mount any of the partitions (dev/hdd4, etc.), though, to activate my telnet service for the ethernet card. (I got a message saying I needed to specify the file system for mount)

Now (back in my TIVO) I keep getting the green "serious error occurred" screen.

Is there any way to fix this without restoring my _old_ mfstools2 backup? Will that fix it?

If I do that, will I lose all my programs, or just my thumbsup stuff?

Sorry to be such a moron.

Bob

Posted by: Robert S

Did you answer all the questions to the end of the TiVoMad script?

Did you tell it your drive set was larger than 140Gb?

Is the green screen staying up or does it reboot every few minutes?

Posted by: noone001

Yeah, I answered the questions. Dumb, huh - I just didn't realize it was TIVOMad. It's been so long since I went through this stuff before, I didn't remember.

I told it that it was a single drive, less than 140GB. (I just have the one 120GB) I had a heart attack when I saw a message about "creating partitions".

The green screen comes on, then it reboots. over and over!

So what did TivoMad do? Did it work on both partition 4 and 7? Did it wipe out my programs?

If I do a mfs2.0 restore from my old image, do I need to run TivoMad again to make it a 120GB Tivo?

Posted by: Robert S

Perhaps you should try the 'rescue' from the third post of the Fixes thread. I don't know if it'll help, but it could be that TiVoMad has damaged your swap in some way.

I think you'll be incredibly lucky if you can fix this without resorting to a backup.

Posted by: noone001

OK, I give up. I will go back to my old backup. But my question: Once I do a mfsrestore, Do I have to do the mfsadd?

Posted by: Robert S

mfsrestore restores backup files. mfsadd expands TiVo images. mfsrestore can take a -x option which causes it to do mfsadd automatically.