Stuck at "Welcome. Powering up..."

[shawnT]

I have an RCA DVR39 that has been hacked and running on 6.2c for a while now. I have been having guide data problems and it occasionally reboots but for the most part everything has been working well. Except the last time it rebooted it never got past Welcome Powering up.


I pulled the drive and browsed through partitions 4, 7 and 9 all appeared to be ok. I checked bootpage -p /dev/hda and got root=/dev/hda4 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware=false
Then I checked bootpage -b /dev/hda and it returned Boot Partition: 4
It should be 3 right?
so I did bootpage -B 3 /dev/hda
then checked it again and it still says 4 ????

I also tried to re dd hda3 from a PTVupgrade lba48 disk. I gunzipped the 3.1.5 s2 kernel, which is what I used originally.
dd if=vmlinux.px of=/dev/hda3
it returned
1+1 records in
1+1 records out

I know I probably did this in the wrong order, but then I checked my serial output which I attached. The log makes it look like there is something wrong with the var partition. So I pulled the drive again and check it. My hack directory is still there and everything still looks ok.

I do have a backup but I would prefer not to restore it if I don't have to because there is no way to restore without loosing my recording right?

Any suggestions about what might be wrong or what I should try? I would appreciate any help.

[ScanMan]

Any suggestions about what might be wrong or what I should try? I would appreciate any help.Older versions of bootpage had some off-by-one problems; see this (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=39244) thread.

Looks like you might have a hard drive problem; it's rebooting while trying to rebuild /var. You might want to try one of the "kickstart" codes; I would try 57 first:"Kickstart code 5 7 - force MFS check"
"Kickstart code 5 8 - perform MFS cleanup"Also, first I would pull the drive and run manufacturer's diagnostics on it.

[Jamie]

It appears to me that it is unable to rebuild /var, because it thinks it is already mounted:Can't clean /dev/hda9 - rebuilding
mke2fs 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda9 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
Is it possible you've hacked your startup scripts to mount /var too early?

You might be able to cover /var by running e2fsck manually on the PC side.

[shawnT]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try them tonight.

I am glad to know about the bootpage off by one issue. The version on the ptv disk is probably older than the fixed version.

If I ever changed them in a way to cause /var to get mounted earlier it would have been a long time ago, but they could have been corrupted.