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Almost there...
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Posted by: littlelibo

I need help.... One of my Hughes direcTivos stopped working about three months ago. I woke up one morning to find it stuck in the "Almost There..." screen and tried to reboot. It got stuck again. I called Hughes to get it replaced and it seems they are on eternal backorder. Then I tried these forums. i was told it was probably a hard drive problems, but have since tried two new hard drives with the same problem resulting. Any suggestions?

Posted by: trubin

what is a MODEM?

Posted by: stahta01

What Tivo image was on the replaced hard drive?

If it was an blank hard-drive it will most likely give the same message as an bad hard drive.

Tim S

Posted by: Robert S

If it gets to 'Almost there' it has loaded Linux and started the boot sequence, but the TiVo interface hasn't started. This can be caused by a faulty modem (try flashing the boot PROM and removing modemtest from rc.sysinit), corrupt MFS partitions (seem to have covered that) or a faulty power supply (call weaknees).

If you put a dead/blank/incorrectly jumpered/etc hard drive, it will stick at 'Welcome', which is highly diagnostic of a failed drive. Sticking at 'Almost there' has many more causes.

Posted by: trubin

Thank you, I was to lazy to type it all out.