The LT was lifetimed...sorry about that.
The unit boots up and gets stuck in the setup process at the Loading Data stage after setting the wifi adapter up. I tried kickstarting and no change. Hoping it is the hdd and that a new one will make it work again. I bought it for relatively cheap assuming I would be able to fix it.
Using the WINMFS version...what am i going to be doing to start anew with a new hdd. Will I be using the old one at all. I have upgraded a couple of tivos in the past...one quite a while ago with linux commands and one within windows...but never have done this without having a good drive to copy the software from.
Any help would be much appreciated....like, what do I do with these files...sorry and thanks Unitron.
And I do have a dropbox account and it is pretty much full
Mine's pretty much full, too, all TiVo images, which is why I'm trolling for extra free space.
I've got other images on sendspace, but they have to be downloaded every so often to keep alive. If you're bored, feel free to search my posts in this thread and download some of them for the benefit of later searchers with different models.
Do you mean you bought the TiVo itself cheap hoping to fix it?
Does that mean it still has the original 250GB drive?
If so, take out the drive, hook it to a Windows computer, DO NOT try to look at the drive with any Windows program, launch WinMFS, select that drive, make sure you've got the right one, click on mfsinfo, see if it's set to boot from partitions 3 and 4, which we'll call Option 1, or from 6 and 7, which we'll call Option 2.
Then click on fixboot and choose the opposite option. If you're booting from 3 and 4, choose option 2 to change it to 6 and 7. If you're booting from 6 and 7, choose option 1 to change it to 3 and 4.
Then click on fix swap.
Then exit, power down, put it back in the TiVo and try again.
You are using the TiVo brand wireless adapter, right?
Can you temporarily use a Cat5 cable and hook it straight to your router?
Oh, in setup, give it a fixed IP address. Actually give anything and everything on the network that doesn't travel a fixed IP address.
Can't hurt, might help.
My main router's address is 192.168.1.1, with a wireless router hanging off of it at .2, a wired at .3, and two more planned for .4 and .5.
Each router is, or will be, assigned one of the numbers from .250 to .254 for DHCP it can hand out.
Network attached storage starts at .20
Computers start at .100
TiVos start at .201 (I've got one computer that's on .200 servicing the living room TiVos)
Planning it out that way, no conflicts. I can increase the DHCP range downward if necessary, without hitting anything else until or unless I get like 7 Tivos for each room, which ain't happening, even if they were free ('cause the light bill ain't).
Those are the public links for those images on dropbox, just click on them and the download "open or save" box should pop up.
But maybe you won't need them.