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September 27, 2006 12:27 AM

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Bryan

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I purchased Instant Cake this evening and I am trying to build a Drive for a Phillips HDR31203 / PVR300.  Once I downlaoded the ISO I have burned it with 2 different machines but then I go to boot it in a machine I get the Boot: prompt...then press enter and I get

 Loading vmlinuz......

Loading initrd.img.......

Ready.

Uncompressing Linux...OK, booting the kernel.

 and then nothing....I have tried this on 2 different machines....Both are shuttles with 1 GB Ram and 2100+ procs.....

 The drive I am trying to image is a Hitachi DeskStar 200GB.

 Thanks for any help you can offer...I really hope to resurect my DVR as it has a lifetime sub on it.

 

Bryan

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Lou Jacob Avatar
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September 28, 2006 9:18 AM

You can try burning your CD at a slower speed or perhaps on different media.  It could also be a PC compatibility issue - try booting on a different type of PC to see if thats the problem, if you have access to one.

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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September 28, 2006 11:27 AM

FYI as this seems to be an illusive problem you are trying to solve... 

I corrected the problem.  It was not the media or the PC...it was the firmware on the CD/DVD reader that I had inthe machine I was using to bake the new Tivo drive.  I first swapped the drive out with a different (only reader) CD Rom and it booted without issue.  Then I upgraded the firmware on the CD/DVD Writer and then I could boot with the InstantCake CD.

 I am not at home right now but I will post pater tonight with the Brand information of the CDroms.  the CD/DVD writer is a Sony but I am not sure of model information without looking at the drive.

 Bryan

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