Help! Stuck at powering up screen :(

[SledgeHammer]

I have a single drive Sony SAT-T60 that is running v2.0. I want to replace that drive with a new 120GB drive that I bought.

I downloaded an image (2.5.2), hooked the new drive up to my PC (Maxtor Diamond Max) and booted off the MFStools CD.

Now this part is a little different, so here is my setup:

Drive C: 36GB SCSI drive formatted in NTFS
Drive D: SCSI CD-ROM
Drive E: SCSI CD-RW
Drive F: IDE DVD-R(W) (primary master)

So I burnt the MFS tools ISO and then burnt the images to another CD.

I disconnected drive C.

Put the MFSTools in Drive D
Put the images CD in Drive F
Hooked the new Maxtor as Secondary Master

booted up

the IDE DVD-R(w) came up as hda
the maxtor came up as hdc

I issued:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls -al (the IDE DVD-R(W) CD was listed here)

mfsrestore -s 127 -xzpi backup.bak /dev/hdc

the backup completed successfully, but mfstools reported only 90hrs?

I then hit ctrl-alt-delete to halt

and put the drive back in the tivo and got stuck at the power on screen.

any ideas? Did I miss a step?

Thanks.

NOTE: Tried a different image (v2.5) and this time I get stuck in a reboot loop.

[captain_video]

Try a different 2.5Xtreme image. The ones from www.tivostuff.com are supposed to be working pretty well. I've never tried doing a restore from a CD but it sounds like the image may have been corrupted somehow. You might want to consider getting a small IDE drive (approx 1-5GB is perfect) formatted as FAT32 for backing up and restoring Tivo images. Upgrade to 2.5.2 using Superzap's upgrade after you've gotten the 2.5Xtreme image working in your DTivo and the EEPROM has been flashed.

The -s 127 option is not necessary for a 120GB drive unless you intend to add a B drive larger than 20GB at a later date. It increases the size of the swap file to accommodate a total drive capacity greater than 140GB. It doesn't hurt to have the larger swap file but I just thought I'd mention it as a point of interest.

Getting stuck on the boot screens or getting into a reboot loop usually means you've got a bad image. Sometimes downloading a working image is a hit or miss proposition. You need a wideband connection for downloading and even the slightest glitch during the download can apparently corrupt the image. I don't know why this is so but Tivos seem to be real finnicky about backup images. If they're not perfect it will simply choke on them.

[bbbbb11111]

This was my setup, might help you out, or not, but here ya go anyways:

Downloaded image from www.tivostuff.com
Burned image to cd, turned off computer.

Unhooked all of PC Drives.
Took Tivo A Drive, set it as Secondary Master, making it 'hdc'
CD-ROM, Primary master.

Turned computer on, w/xtreme 2.5 disc in CD-ROM (Obviously Set computer to boot from CD)
Keystrokes:
<enter>
<enter>
xtreme25 <enter>
hdc <enter>
Y <enter>

After the image loads, it will ask you some more questions, just answer them, it'll finish up, then say: Enjoy

Turned computer uoff, took Tivo 'A' Drive out, back in Tivo.
Powered up, and that was it.

I'm new too, but I've upgraded 4 Tivo's just like that w/out a hitch, besides the one w/the bad tuner.

Another thing I'll mention, although it doesn't sound like your problem, if you get stuck on "Almost There, A Few More Seconds" Chances are you have a bad modem.

cd /tvbin
rm modemtest

Restart Tivo

B

[SledgeHammer]

I've tried 2 of the images from Tivostuff. The 2.5.2 one hangs at the welcome screen, the 2.5 one goes into an infinite boot loop.

From reading around, I think to go from 2.0 to 2.5 I need to flash the prom?

I thought both of these images, on the first boot are supposed to flash the prom?

I downloaded the xupgrade.iso image. Is that going to flash the prom? If not, how do I flash the prom?

[fixn278]

If the machine was never hacked before, you will need to run 25xtreme first. After it runs, put it back in the Tivo and let it boot up and finish the install. This will flash the prom. Then, you can overlay whatever image you want.

[SledgeHammer]

Ah... ok... I think I see where I went wrong. I downloaded the virgin 2.5 image and the 2.5.2 xtreme image. I downloaded the 2.5 xtreme image this morning and that was in ISO format. So I will try run that tonight after work.

[captain_video]

Yep. That's most likely your problem. The stock 2.5 image doesn't flash your EEPROM nor does the 2.5.2Xtreme image. The result is you're trying to run a newer OS version with the old EEPROM data and the two don't jive.

[SledgeHammer]

Yup, that was it. Its now on the "Updating database, this will take a long time" screen. Damn... I gotta head back to work :). I couldn't wait til after work, so I headed home at lunch. :)

[Ferdo]

Sledge im having same prob, what did u do to fix. I got my image from tivostuff.

I had 2.5.2 on and I went back to 2.5 is that the prob?

[Ferdo]

Sledge im having same prob, what did u do to fix. I got my image from tivostuff.

I had 2.5.2 on and I went back to 2.5 is that the prob?

[SledgeHammer]

I got the 2.5 xtreme image burned the ISO. I then booted off of it and ran 25xtreme and thats it. The 2.5.2 doesn't flash the prom.
This should all happen automatically when you install 25xtreme.