Argh, Tivo won't boot now...

[otakucode]

Not sure what's going on here. I have a Philips HDR212. I've changed out the original hard drive, added a second, installed a turbonet card. Those changes have been in ther and fine for at
least a year, probably closer to 2. I had TyStudio installed and decided to uninstall it. So, I go and remount /dev/hda7 as read-write and change /etc/rc.sysinit. Reboot Tivo and it gets stuck at "Your recorder is starting up" screen. Well, I had put the line to remount / as rw in the rc.sysinit and thought maybe it didn't like that. So, I yanked the drive, hooked it to this PC and booted up with a Linux boot cd with tivo utilities on it.

Mounted the system partition, edited the rc.sysinit after verifying it was the one I changed (make sure I was on the right partition).
OK, so I copied the origjnal rc.sysinit file over top of the one I had edited. Shut everything down, go hook drive back into Tivo... and I get the same result. "Your recorder is starting up. Please wait a moment....".

Any idea what could be wrong? Tivo has been working fine for a long time, but now won't boot even with original rc.sysinit file. I don't think I missed anything as far as removing TyStudio, I am pretty sure it only modifies rc.sysinit.

I don't have a serial cable, so I can't check output there. Anyone have any ideas of what I could try?

Thanks,
OtakuCODE

[Raydog1677]

sounds like your jumpers are not set correctly

[otakucode]

I didn't touch the jumpers and cables are hooked exactly as before...

Thanks for the reply though, this is very frustrating since I don't know what to do.


OtakuCODE

[Barneyd]

I have the exact same problem. I remounted the partition with RW permission and edited the rc.sysinit to comment out the tystudio lines. I was distracted and forgot to remount read only before I rebooted. Now I hang at the "your recorder is starting up screen". Did you remount the partition as read only when you had it connected to your PC?

[BubbleLamp]

Not mounting it ro by itself wouldn't cause a problem. But, if you rebooted immediately after making the change, it might not have been properly flushed. The command to remount as ro is normally used like this to make sure it is:

mount -o remount,ro /; sync

[flyingmnky]

I had this same exact problem after removing Tystudio as well, and after freaking out and missing a night's worth of season pass recording, I checked the rights of the rc.sysinit file, and discovered is was not executable. I chmod 755 the file, and it booted right up. Hope that this all that is wrong with your system as well, and that this info helps.

[salsa]

Thank you!!! I've been screwing with my TiVo for 2 days now trying to get it to boot again :) ...Yup, rc.sysinit wasn't executable. It honestly never occurred to me to check it. And even if I had, I didn't know how to fix it :) Yall taught me both, thanks!!!
Off to donate :)