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green sceen reboot loop!

My original HD crashed, and I am attempting to place an 80GB drive into my GXCEBOT. I have used mfstools 2.0 boot cd to place a GXCDBOT 2.0.0 image onto the drive, and then used the Mad tools boot disk to change the ideturbo flag to false.

When I powered on the tivo it goes to almost there, then I get a GSOD, it stays on the GSOD for about 30 secs and reboots. Is this a swap problem, but I thought it wouldn't matter since it was only 80gb.

I used the following command:
mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi /mnt/dos/Hughes.bak /dev/hdb

The image was created with Mfstools-1.0:
mfstool backup /mnt/dos/Hughes.bak /dev/hdc

It said to use the following restore, but I could only find mfstools-2.0, and i used the one above.
mfstool restore /dev/hdc -i /mnt/XXX/Hughes.bak

Is that whats causing the problem?

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Registered: Jul 2002
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It's not the swap problem. -s 127 gives you enough swap for 274Gb of drive space. It also takes several minutes for the system to discover it's out of swap and reboot.

You might want to check the system logs (you'll have to mount the /var partition in your PC, sorry) to verify that swap is activating correctly.

Are you sure the drive is OK? I'd want to run the manufacturer's diagnostics on it to check for bad blocks.

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I have run powermax on the drive and it passed the manufacturers test.

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I'll assume you did the full surface scan and not just the quick test.

Have you tried doing the simplest restore?

mfsrestore -i /mnt/dos/Hughes.bak /dev/hdc

If that doesn't boot, you probably have a dud backup.

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Thanks for the help Rob!

I redid the entire process using the simple restore command and it worked like a charm.

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