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Downgrading from 2.0.1 to 1.3?
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Posted by: doom1701

OK, let the newbie quips fly...

What kind of problems (besides going back to a virgin Tivo with no recordings) would one expect if you took your Tivo that had been upgraded to 2.0.1 over the past couple weeks back down to 1.3? Most of us that have done hard drive upgrades (or plan to, as soon as the stupid drive comes in) have either images of our virgin 1.3 hard drive, or (as I do) have our original A drive sitting in a box in the basement.

If I let my machine upgrade to 2.0.1 (which it should do the next time it dials in), and then, at some point, have to go back to my original 1.3 A drive, what would happen? Will I bring Tivo Corp to a screeching halt? Will they shut me off? Or will I just be 1.3 again for a while?

Posted by: AndyK

You should be upgraded again though it has been noted that Tivo will know. If people do too many re upgrades they could get pissed and it could have a negative impact on Tivo's "acceptance" (ambivalence?) of hacking.

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Posted by: Otto

I don't see any problem with it now that the rollout is done. The main concern I had was that all the hackers would be upgrading twice during the rollout.

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Posted by: TVerBeek

quote:
Originally posted by doom1701:
If I let my machine upgrade to 2.0.1 (which it should do the next time it dials in), and then, at some point, have to go back to my original 1.3 A drive, what would happen? Will I bring Tivo Corp to a screeching halt? Will they shut me off? Or will I just be 1.3 again for a while?

Although nothing seriously bad is likely to happen should you downgrade your software like that (just requiring TiVo to download the upgrade to you again), there's also no real benefit to keeping your spare A drive at 1.3 instead of upgrading it to 2.0. That's why I suggested putting the original A drive back in and letting TiVo upgrade it [u]before[/b] you add the B drive. As long as you're keeping your original drive as your spare, why not have it at the current version instead of the old version?

Cheers, Todd

Posted by: jeddy

I agree with the upgrading your main spare thing, but...
You should really keep a drive that has the backup files from the two roots and the var partition of each version you go through. It would also be a good idea to keep backups of the kernels as they change, and maybe also the prom changes. The prom files should be on your root partitions, so you shouldn't have to actually read them back from the prom with getprom.

If you keep upgrading your "virgin" drive, you will loose alot of the cool tools and scripts that TiVo put on the original systems and wipes out when it creates a new root for you on an upgrade.

I have two TiVo's and I did upgrade one of the backups (orig drives) to 2.0. The other is still as it came from the factory. I will probably copy the files off onto a third drive to save space, and maintain an archive, but the new drives I ordered haven't come in yet.

Regular backups mean never having to say "OOPS! I know I had that file before the last upgrade"