My tivo has 2.5.2 so I am selecting the 2.5.2 kernel in copykern. Should I be selecting 3.1 even though my tivo is 2.5.2? It looks like you are trying to tell me that it is not good that copykern came back with a message saying those 2 files were read only. Am i being fooled by the final message that said kernel copied successfully?

on another note you replied with "do not cross post"... I'm not sure what that is but I assume that I must have asked my question twice and now I see that the thread was closed. I apologize for that. I was never to savvy on these forums.

OK i have re-imaged my drive again from my backup. This is what I got at the end of running copykern with the 2.5.2 kernel. Is it an error? or is it informational? I don't know because this is all pretty new to me.

/bin/copykern /mnt/new-kernel.px Read Only File System

tpip /mnt/kernel.orig Read Only File System

Kernel Updated!

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Now did this update the kernel or is it having a problem with those 2 read only files? Is this a swap file problem? The drive shows expanded to 185 hours in my TiVo.

I have a Sony SAT-T60 200gb hard drive and for this restore I used a swap file with 127 instead of 256 which I have been using previously.

Any help or ideas with this would be greatly appreciated. I am growing tired of everything running smoothly for 5-7 days and then getting a GSOD. This was a pretty straight forward drive expansion from 60gb to 200gb. And the 60gb worked perfectly (still does) for 2+ years.

Thanks again.