S2 failure... two times in a row

[illig]

My upgraded series 2 tivo recently broke down after 2 years of faithful service. I plugged it in one day after moving it, and it got stuck on the "powering on" screen.

I scanned both of the seagate drives inside, and found that one of them had failed. luckily, it's still under warranty, so it's on its way back to seagate.

I tested the tivo with the original 40GB drive (running 4.0 software), and it worked perfectly. So I used the MFSTools method to copy the original image back to one of the (still good) seagate drives (120GB).

This seagate drive worked fine for two days, until it downloaded the software update (to 7.x) and i rebooted it to install the update.

For an hour, the tivo entered into a reboot loop (intermittently showing the "upgrading software" screen). Afterwards, it got stuck in the "powering on" screen, and refuses to do anything else.

I scanned the drive with seagate tools, and it's fine.

What should I do next?

[HomeUser]

Could be the swap partition is zero or too small. What was the command options you used when you copied the original image?

[illig]

Could be the swap partition is zero or too small. What was the command options you used when you copied the original image?

I used the command options suggested by the weaknees interactive upgrade guide

mfsbackup -f 9999 -so - /dev/hda | mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -xzpi - /dev/hdb

I'm about to use my original tivo drive (the one with the 4.0 software) to see if this one upgrades successfully to the latest software version... unless someone can suggest something else? I'd rather not mess up my backup drive, but it's the only option i see now.

[HomeUser]

You might start over with the MFSLive CD (http://www.mfslive.org/) I understand there is a fix for the size of the spare boot partition which may be the problem you are seeing.

or do a binary copy of the 40 Gig to the 120G with cp or dd then with mfsadd add the additional partitions