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Tivo locks up after upgrade
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Posted by: redvoid

I followed the directions for adding a second drive and I put in a Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB drive. After the upgrade it appeared everything was working - I had 133 Hours of Basic Quality. Then it started to lock up after a few minutes of use. I would have to cycle the power to get the thing going again. Then after a few cycles the thing refused to boot - it would get stuck on the "just a few more seconds" screen.

I have a Sony 30 GB SVR-2000.

I am now trying to restore the backup to the original drive so I can start over. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

To make things worse, I didn't know you were supposed to shutdown myworld before doing the backup, so my backup might be flaky too. Someone should update the FAQ to mention that if you're gonna do an in-TiVo backup, its a good idea to turn myworld off on the boot string.

Any ideas on what might be wrong with my 80GB would be appreciated.

Thanks,
-Jon

Posted by: janedoe4997

Since no one else has gotten back to you yet, I will try...

It sounds like you first did a disk A backup?
Did you back up to a non-quantum disk A drive? If so you need
to enable or disable the ide turbo boot parameter or that A drive
will always lock up during boot.

It could also be because you didn't kill myworld before the backup. If you believe that is so, you could start over with
the backup and upgrade process.

I don't know what you mean by turning myworld off 'on the bootstring'. What I would do is be certain to enable the backdoors parameter on the bootstring, then use the remote control special sequence to kill myworld before attempting
the backup or upgrade.

Whenever you think you have a clean upgrade, you can run
'mfscheck' without arguments, and it will check over your mfs
partitions and report any problems it sees if any.

Posted by: janedoe4997

better double-check your master/slave jumpers while you are at
it as well...

Posted by: redvoid

Thanks for the tips.

I was aware of the runideturbo=false option and I did turn that off. The thing booted a few times with no problems and the then run for like 10 minutes and then freeze, but after 3 or 4 boots it would just freeze on the boot.

Also, I was turning off myworld by putting runmyworld=false on the end of the "bootstring":
root=/dev/hda7 runideturbo=false runmyworld=false
and when I did a ps, myworld wasn't running. . .

Incidentally, I ran the Maxtor PowerMax re-certification tests and the drive failed so Maxtor is sending me a new drive. Hopefully this was the problem.