TCD24008A Won't boot past "Welcome. Powering up": DVRplayground

DVRupgrade

January 15, 2005 2:32 PM

pjaicher said:

I have a Series 2 SA TCD24008A that I baked.. The Bake went fine, no errors or anything else unusual, but now it will not get past the "Welcome. Powering up.." screen. I have tried reruning the bake a few times and I still get the same thing.. Any tips or things to try? It is the stock Maxtor 80gig hard drive that it shipped with..

Thanks
Paul

Why did you run InstantCake on the original TiVo drive (this is what we explicitly recommend you DON'T do)? What have you done to ensure that the drive you are using is not defective?

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Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
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pjaicher

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January 15, 2005 2:44 PM

Long story. To make it short, the drive worked fine before initrd took out some of the files on hdc4 and hdc7. Figured an Instantcake would be a good way to get back to a good image. (Am I wrong??) The drive is fine. The bake was to get the software back to a working version. After the bake, hdc7 will mount but hdc4 will not. Figured that was fine because one of them is an upgrade partition and this is supposed to be a clean install, but not sure. hdc7 appears back to normal, all the files seem to be back and intact.

Lou Jacob

DVRupgrade

January 15, 2005 2:47 PM

pjaicher said:

Long story. To make it short, the drive worked fine before initrd took out some of the files on hdc4 and hdc7. Figured an Instantcake would be a good way to get back to a good image. (Am I wrong??) The drive is fine. The bake was to get the software back to a working version. After the bake, hdc7 will mount but hdc4 will not. Figured that was fine because one of them is an upgrade partition and this is supposed to be a clean install, but not sure. hdc7 appears back to normal, all the files seem to be back and intact.

Well, if you are certain cables are correct, jumpers are correct and you've built the drive exactly as described in the instructions, try steps 1-4 in part one from here:

http://www.dvrplayground.com/forum/thread/11010/

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

pjaicher

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January 15, 2005 3:23 PM

tivoupgrade said:

Well, if you are certain cables are correct, jumpers are correct and you've built the drive exactly as described in the instructions, try steps 1-4 in part one from here:

http://www.dvrplayground.com/forum/thread/11010/

Good call on checking the cables. I had just assumed that if I was seeing the "Welcome. Powering up.." screen that it had mounted the drive fine. Apparently that screen in built into the tivos prom and not the drive. The cables looked fine but I pulled both ends of the ide cable and reseated them. Now it boots. Must have been a connection.

Also I just wanted to say that this is a great product you have. I write software in linux at work and it is nice to see an upgrade/fix like this that doesn't require grep'n through 40 pages of text to figure out how to use. Thanks for the help.

Lou Jacob

DVRupgrade

January 15, 2005 3:46 PM

Thanks, much appreciated!

For answers to commonly asked questions, please refer to the
InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread

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