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HELP!: HD Upgrade & Green Screen of Death Reboot
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Posted by: andyd

Hi,

My Tivo keeps cycling powering up, almost there, then a green screen appears for 1/2 second and the box reboots

I decided to upgrade my 3 month old Thomson tivo (40gb quantum) yesterday and eagerly followed the instructions at www.steveconrad.co.uk/tivo

Or rather I didn't, in my haste to start the upgrade I didn't read the instructions thoroughly; here's what I did!

Connected new and old hardrives to a old pc with no hard drive of it's own exactly as stated in steve's site, booted from the Tivomad floppy and the original drive was detected as 10M, so I booted from a DOS disk with qunlock on and entered qunlock 2. Once more I booted from the Tivomad floppy and both the original Tivo Quantum and the new Western Digital 120MB were picked up correctly.

Here's where I went wrong.

I didn't control-c at this point, in fact I answered all the questions, and eventully Tivomad told me to place the new drive in my Tivo. There were some initial errors displayed when tivomad ran (partition related, unable to re-read)

At this point typed dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdb bs=32k

after running for about 5 hours this process produced segmentation errors and dumped me back to the # prompt

Feeling reassured that at least I had a working original Tivo Quantum drive I put my Tivo back together only to have the GSOD reboot experience, then I tried the new drive 120GB and exactly the same experience.

So what do I do? I didn't think that I had written anything to the original drive and I know that the drives were connected and jumpered correctly.

I wish I had a backup image as I'm sure it would resolve this for me, otherwise I guess I have to start saving for a new Tivo. I'm missing the bloody thing already!

Thanks,
Andy.

Posted by: Robert S

You don't need a new TiVo but you do need a UK backup image to restore your A drive. TiVoMad probably corrupted it in some way.

Steve's instructions are very good, but you have to follow the to the letter!

Unfortunately Rob Bellis is on holiday and I don't know any other sources of UK images.

Your TiVo isn't physically damaged, but there's no way to revive it without a UK backup image.

Posted by: PaulK

I can send you a CD of an image if you like
alas it is pre 255 update, so maybe you can get a more up to date one off someone else but I am here if you need me.

Don't Panic, I did exactly the same thing (the reason I have a cd now)

Paul

Posted by: woody

The Pre 2.5.5 (i.e 1.5) is fine, tivo will update the software with the first phone call.

chris

Posted by: andyd

I would like to thank all those who posted here or emailed me directly, I have accepted an offer of help and hopefully will have my Tivo up and running on Tuesday (once I have worked out how to restore from a CD image!).

Lesson learned today: More haste, less speed.

Posted by: Robert S

Restoring from a CD image isn't hard, but

Hint: copy the image from the CD to your hard drive as c:\tivo.bak for minimum pain.

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