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Green Screen on Each Reboot
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Posted by: mikellanes

Hello,

I brought a Philips HDR212 TiVo, The person who sold it to me upgraded the "A" drive to a 120GB drive, I set it up and everything worked great.... until we had an electrical power outage 3 times in a row (have since brought a battery backup) and the TiVo got the "green screen" and after a few days of it going "reboot-green-reboot-green" I gave up on it.

I pulled the 120GB drive and set it up as the "B" drive (I only have a Macintosh and I dont know of any tools to make an "A" drive) and used the origional 20GB drive as the "A" drive, started up, setup everything peachy.

A few calls later It needed to reboot for the new software (3.0) and it goes back to the green screen. It eventually turned back on (after 4 sessions of green-reboot-green, etc)

Now anytime i reboot it (I was seeing if a reboot would speed it up as the 120GB alone seemed much faster than the 2 drives together) it goes through about 4 sessions of the green-reboot phase (about 1 1/2 hrs total)

Any Ideas why? or any fixes?

Id hate to loose all the programming going back to 1 drive?...

Should I just not worry about it as a re-start is very infrequent, or does this point to larger problems later on?

Also, would the memory upgrade improve the speed of the unit? I have adequate soldering skills for the upgrade....

Thanks for any suggestions, im at a loss

Posted by: captain_video

One problem may be that your swap file never got increased when the upgrade was performed. If your total drive capacity exceeds 140GB then you need to increase the size of your swap file so you can recover from the green screen of death. Otherwise it will simply hang up at that screen and never recover. Your capacity is right at the edge so it could go either way but it's definitely a possibility. Check out the threads at the top of this forum about swap file fixes for MFS 2.0.

Posted by: Robert S

If the green screen were running out of swap it would reboot endlessly. Doing the 'rescue' maneuver shouldn't make any difference (although it won't do any harm) - it would be interesting if it did change things. The threshold for S1 standalones is about 155Gb - 30+120 is OK, 40+120 needs extra swap.

The fact that it recovers on its own means that the green screen is completing successfully. The mystery is why it repeats on rebooting.

I would have to think this is due to a hardware problem with the 120Gb drive, but it must be a rather odd one.

Posted by: mikellanes

Total drive size is around 135GB of actual space (drives may be smaller than they appear... LOL) so the swap shouldn't be a problem.

the 120GB drive was brand new (as was the whole unit, still sealed), and tested fine in all the integrity tests I performed... (BTW its an IBM brand drive)

I was looking through the backdoors threads and noticed I could read the logs with one of them, Should I look into them and see what is going on?

Posted by: mikellanes

I restarted it a few times last night and am glad to say after 3 rounds of the same problem it seeems to have "fsck" [fixed] itself :)

I also tried rebootign this morning and.. viola works as it should :)

Now im looking into the memory upgrade to see if that improves the speed, also 9th tee has a new cache system (for the channel data) they are working on, looks promising!

Thanks for the help/clarification