Trouble Upgrading to 9.1

[id10t]

Tivo - SAS2 240, no PROM-mod necessary
NIC - TIvo brand Wireless G
Issue - Upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1 software

Alright...so, I took the plunge with upgrading to 9.1 software.
I ran The Slicer, everything ran as it should (as far as I know), it told me to reboot after it was done, so I did.
Tivo (240, non-PROM modded) installed the service update.
And...I can't get my Tivo brand Wireless adapter to connect to my network.

I try plugging in my wired USB to Ethernet connection, and the Tivo reboots. If I leave the USB wired device connected, it goes into a reboot loop.

I pull the drive, make sure that my stock 8.3 drivers are installed, re-monte my custom kernel (8.1 custom)...put everything back together...same problem.
(I totally forgot to backup the stock drivers for 9.1...when I ran Slicer and it asked if I wanted to keep my backports, I answered yes)

So, right now all of my drivers are from 8.3, I've got the monte'd 8.1 kernel, a wired USB ethernet adapter puts me into a reboot loop, the Tivo brand wireless adapter doesn't cause reboots, but Tivo also does not detect it (solid green light on the left, slow blinking green light on the right).

Can anyone point me in the right direction of what I should be doing here to get a network connection?

[ScanMan]

With the 240, two approaches should work:

1. killhdinitrd kernel with backport drivers should work fine with a wired adapter.

2. Boot a killhdinitrd kernel and monte into a stock 9.1 kernel (with null initrd) and use the stock 9.1 drivers is probably your best bet.

#2 might work with the custom 8.1 kernel using stock drivers. Problem no one here knows exactly what Slicer does, although it probably made a backup of your stock drivers somewhere. You need to find them or extract them again from MFS and copy them into place. There was a pretty good post on how to do that here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=5575626#post5575626) recently.

[id10t]

Thank you for the response.

I have decided that the commitment of having a hacked Tivo isn't worth it for me and overwrote the new partition with my old stock Tivo drive.

It upgraded itself to 9.1 and now I'm having new problems. I've been getting s03 errors while Loading the program information (usually at about 50%).
I am going through Guided Setup again...which turned out to be another place to find s03 errors, but I once again made it up to the Getting Program Info step, and am now stuck on "Preparing".
If it doesn't change relatively soon, I guess I will attempt a reboot.

I've already done a "kickstart" once, it only took maybe 15 minutes (I shut the TV off, when I turned it back on 15 minutes later, it was ready to go).

Anyone had any similar experiences?

[Jamie]

I have decided that the commitment of having a hacked Tivo isn't worth it for me and overwrote the new partition with my old stock Tivo drive.
Can you elaborate on exactly what you did? If you just replaced your root partition with one from an old drive, which probably had a different software version, that isn't likely to work. The MFS version has to match the software version in the root partition.

[id10t]

Can you elaborate on exactly what you did? If you just replaced your root partition with one from an old drive, which probably had a different software version, that isn't likely to work. The MFS version has to match the software version in the root partition.

I pulled the drive from my Tivo after it had received it's 9.1 update.
Hooked it to my PC along with my original Tivo drive and followed the Weaknees instructions for upgrading while disregarding previous recordings.

When I hooked it back up to my Tivo, it was running 8.3 again and had some old recordings on it.
It connected to the Tivo service and updated to 9.1.

My connections seem to be working fine now, I'm not sure what caused the problems.

[id10t]

For some reason, I can download and load information, but only if I disconnect the wireless adapter after it's done downloading, before loading.
Otherwise, I get a s03 error.

Any thoughts on what needs to be done to correct this?

[Jamie]

I don't know much about error S03, except that in seems to be indicative of MFS corruption: link (http://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/forums/displaypost?postID=10192098).

I assume you already tried the C&DE along with kickstart 57. If neither of those worked, the next thing to try would be to a fresh image. It also wouldn't be a bad idea to run the manufacturers diagnostic on the disk.

--Jamie

[id10t]

I haven't done a C&DE yet, I was hoping to avoid it.

My understanding is that kickstart 57 does a MFS check, while a kickstart 58 does a MFS cleanup. Any point to attempting both?

Thanks for your time.

[jt1134]

Any point to attempting both?
Couldn't hurt.