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TIVOMad 4 Unanticipated Messages
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Posted by: Alaparos

I was in the midst of a "configuration 2" upgrade of a two drive dtivo today, doing the final step of using TiVoMad 4.0 (maddtb4/setupcd.sh). The questions looked normal except:

Q5 and Q6 (Quantum Firebal and 2.0.1 questions) did not occur.

The "do you wish to continue" was first accompanied by a 1/2 screenful of messages talking about whether I wanted to reset some partitions.

I had just done a restore of my 2.5.2 backup to the A drive. I (possibly stupidly) hit enter and let it do its thing. It did *not* "only take a few seconds." It was certainly longer than blesstivo in the past. Quite a few messages came thru (screen long gone, so this is from memory) about various partitions. Then I got the text talking about what size I should expect, and to power off after a 3-finger salute.

All fingers crossed I did that, put TiVo back together, and powered it on. My new 80/80 configuration reported 145hours or thereabouts. All looked fine.

Then I powered off, put the cabinet back on, reconnected and powered back on. And got what looked like a normal boot, but a GSOD right after what I think was the 2nd boot up (right after where the welcome screen flashes for an instant).

So my question is... those unanticipated messages in conjunction with the "Do you want to continue?" message... Should I have let TiVoMad do all that partition work? Or did I in effect tell it to clobber my restore? Yet if the latter, that would not explain why it worked fine on the very first power up attempt.

Right now it's GSODing. Advice?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: hinsdale

DTiVoMad 4 has a slightly different script/question layout then TiVoMad 3.2 which is the basis for the How-To description. The questions and readouts you received are normal and you did it correctly. The GSOD you got was most likely due to the powerdown after testing - most likely it will recover itself within about 20minutes.

Posted by: Alaparos

Not being one to be patient, after 3 hours of GSOD I just pulled both drives, ran the Maxtor diags, restored, and let 'er rip.

It has survived 3 power shutdowns and so far is behaving itself nicely.

Thanks, Hinsdale for taking the time to respond