Boot failure - "cobra.o load failure" - stuck at "a few more minutes..."

[kfosburg]

Hi,

I've read through all the basic stuff and am trying to bring my 10-250 back to life... It had worked for several years without fail and was running 6.3 when I decided to connect it to the phone line for the first time in a year. Big mistake because it never came back to life after a subsequent reboot.

The failure looked like the modemtest issue as found on the forums and I followed those instructions to no avail. I have tested with two hard drives including a new out of the box drive from weaknees... same result.

The serial console stops at
"BroadcomAtscInputResetMuxedInputForDirectv> Set record type to RecordDirecTV_ES"

The big error I see is:

Loading cobra.o
API_InitEnvironment( 0 ) returned error (No error)
cobra module was not successfully installed, LNBPA 0x10 LNBPB 0x12
/lib/modules/cobra.o: init_module: Invalid argument
Warning: loading /lib/modules/cobra.o will taint the kernel: no license
See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
insmod failed"

Any suggestions?

This is a completely unhacked box...

Thanks,

Karl

[kfosburg]

Followup to my own post.

I eventually commented out the stop boot sequence when there is a module load failure and it booted up all the way... All my shows and settings are there, but there is no signal for any tuner and lots of errors trying to talk to the tuner.

Here's an example:

Microcode version is TiVo!
PCI: 00:0d.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correcting to 32
ApgLogFrequency( 0 sec )
PCI Error detected, IRQ 51 @8002abc4
/tvbin/dssappAV: ### WARNING: OpenTunerDeviceArray: Failed to open tuner device '/dev/cobra0': No such device
PCI Error detected, IRQ 51 @8002abc4
/tvbin/dssappAV: ### WARNING: OpenTunerDeviceArray: Failed to open tuner device '/dev/cobra1': No such device
/tvbin/dssappAV: ### WARNING: LL_TunerTune[0]: Called for tuner which failed to open
/tvbin/dssappAV: ### WARNING: LL_TunerTune[1]: Called for tuner which failed to open

Bottom line... stuck at a few minutes more can also be caused by a failed tuner and is indicated by the cobra.o module load failure...

Hope this helps someone else in the future.

Karl