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Not able to Boot
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Posted by: WylieDog

Sorry but I'm a newbie at this stuff and I'm having issues getting past the very first boot. All the directions skip past this step and say just <Hit Enter to accept the default Boot Options>. I do this and I get the following:

boot:
Loading vmlinus...isolinux: Disk error 80, drive 9F
Boot failed: press a key to retry...

I've tried over several times and it is in an endless loop. Am I doing something wrong at this step?

Backup info:
This drive works fine in TiVo, I'm trying to upgrade to AirNet so this is the first time I've tried to hack into it.
I have created the MFS 2.0 boot disk using the iso
I have a FAT32 partition on my primary drive that is 1G (WinXP system)
My primary IDE has my regular hard drive on master and the slave is another hard drive in my system
My secondary IDE has TiVo drive as the Master and CDROM as Slave

Posted by: lantech

Basic question, but can you see all 4 drives in the system bios OK?

Posted by: WylieDog

No, I'm unable to see them all in the BIOS. I unpluged my Primary Slave and just have the TiVo drive connected to the Secondary Master but it is not reading it. (CDROM is on secondary slave)

Any suggestions?

Posted by: WylieDog

Never Mind....got it. Something is wrong with my secondary IDE channel on this old machine. I moved the TiVo to the Primary slave and it worked and booted just fine.

Thanks for the help...I was scouring the TiVo community when I should have just been looking at my own PC.

;) WylieDog

Posted by: lantech

No, problem. Thats why "dumb" or "simple" questions are never that... When it doesn't make sense, start back at the basics... After 10 years in computers I STILL have to remind myself to do that. Sometimes it just takes asking someone who can look from a "clean" perspective...

I wish my issue was this simple... :)

Posted by: WylieDog

Right on. Hopefully someone reads this and doesn't make the same mistake.

I did end up finding out why my secondary IDE channel wasn't working. The darn CDROM drive had the jumpers set to MASTER and when I tried to put it in as a slave...well, you get the picture.

WylieDog