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Help in upgrading Hughes DTIVO
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Posted by: Tivotony

Sorry for the urgency but I am stumped.

I have four Tivo units, 3 DTivos (one DSR6000 and two GXBOT's) and one old Phillips unit. Long story short, one of my GXBOT's died three months ago so I sent it back to Hughes and finally received it back yesterday. Well I unpluged my other (working) GXBOT to move it back upstairs and guess what, IT DIED. Same "powering up..." problem everyone else is having.

I don't want to sent it back in so I figured this is a good time for an upgrade since I've been hoarding drives in my closet when they go on sale. I downloaded the ISO image and set my PC up as instructed (Primary Master-C Drive, Primary slave - nothing, Secondary Master- working A drive from GXBOT, Secondary slave, CDROM).

Now here's the weird thing. I put the boot disk in the CDROM and the computer hangs up, it will not access the CDROM to boot up in Linux. I then replaced the TIVO A drive on the Secondary Master chain with a 'normal' data drive with data on it and tried the same thing and it boots into Linux as it should.... I am stumped. Anyone have any ideas what's going on. I check the jumpers and all cables, no luck.

Posted by: weaknees

Just a thought---but have you tried making your CD ROM Primary Slave, TiVo A drive Secondary Master and new TiVo B drive Secondary Slave? What is the boot sequence in your bios?

Good luck!
Michael
www.weaknees.com