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Upgrading a pre-1.3 system (i.e. virgin HDR112) with a non-Quantum drive
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Posted by: txTiVo

I just learned a very valuable lesson while upgrading my virgin HDR112 system this past weekend.

As suggested in the FAQ, I backed up my A drive to another HD before ever running setup (aka virgin drive). I backed it up to a 27GB Maxtor since I had it laying around from an old system. I wanted to keep my virgin drive as a backup, so I configured the Maxtor to be the new A drive and stuck the original Quantum on a shelf. As instructed in the FAQ, I added the "runideturbo=false" command into line 2 of both rc.sysinit files and everything worked fine. That is until I came in the next morning to find my TiVo hung at the first "Wait a moment" screen. Needless to say I was quite bummed. After reviewing endless posts and trying a few things on my own I created a new post and thanks to Josh my problem was quickly remedied.

It turns out that my system upgraded itself to 1.3 the next morning and had overwritten the rc.sysinit on /dev/hdX4, but not the one at /dev/hdX7. So, all I had to do was reboot with Dylan's disk and add back the "runideturbo=false" line into line 2 of the first rc.sysinit and everything worked great.

Sorry for duplicating the remedy in this post, but I wanted save anybody else from going through this same issue.

Posted by: soundguy

This is exactly why it's much better to add it to the boot sector with a disk editor. A software upgrade (at least 1.2.x to 1.3) doesn't overwrite anything that you've added, so you only have to do it once.

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Posted by: HTH

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Originally posted by soundguy:
This is exactly why it's much better to add it to the boot sector with a disk editor. A software upgrade (at least 1.2.x to 1.3) doesn't overwrite anything that you've added, so you only have to do it once.

But a software upgrade does alter the boot sector. It changes what root partition to use. Depending on where in the boot sector you put it (before or after the root assignment) it could disappear upon software upgrade.

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Posted by: Tiger

It has been reported that altering the boot sector does not alter anything besides the root=blah parameter. Everything else remains intact.

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