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andyjenkins
03-18-2007, 12:48 PM
Just spend the last hour setting up the new TV unit for our new Tosh LCD - plugged in the beloved TiVo - and GSOD. Typical.

I've got a CacheCard plugged in, and it's cycling through that with no errors that I can see, then gets to the 'almost there' - then GSOD for a couple of minutes, then reboots and continues the cycle.

I've just done kickstart 58, no difference yet.

What would be the next logical step to take ?

TiVo has two dives in her .. I don't have any spare disks at the moment that I could use.
blindlemon
03-18-2007, 12:59 PM
Is your swapfile OK?

Normally if a GSOD lasts more than a split second it will complete unless there's a problem with the swap.
andyjenkins
03-18-2007, 01:07 PM
Can't check swap .. the network does'nt seem to be initializing ... so I cant check and I don't have serial ability atm.

Can I do any harm by removing cachecard / 2nd disk ? and seeing if that boots? or is that a pointless exercise ?
Gregor
03-18-2007, 01:39 PM
The disks are married, so removing the 2nd disk won't work.

You might try leaving it on overnight to see if it will recover. If it doesn't recover one of the disks is probably bad.
andyjenkins
03-18-2007, 02:09 PM
I guess that is the only option I have at the moment .. eh?

Anyway to actually check if it's doing anything during it's green screen moments ?
blindlemon
03-18-2007, 02:22 PM
Pull drive A and mount partition 9 (/var) in a PC after booting from the SiliconDust NIC CD.
andyjenkins
03-18-2007, 03:29 PM
Pull drive A and mount partition 9 (/var) in a PC after booting from the SiliconDust NIC CD.

Your going to laugh .. but I cannot find any CDrs around the home to burn a copy of the SiliconDust CD. However, I have found an old copy of TiVo Boot CD, with mfstools 1.1 on it.

Can I do anything with this?
blindlemon
03-18-2007, 04:38 PM
Hmmm... It's so long since I used that I can't remember what you can do with it.

You will need to boot in byteswapped mode - with later CDs you can type vmlnodma hdX=bswap (where hdX is the port to which your TiVo drive is attached) at the 'Boot:' prompt to enable byteswapping - then mount partition 9 to examine the logs.
andyjenkins
03-19-2007, 01:55 PM
Ordered Hooch .. has to be easier eh?

Just need to wait for Mr Lemon to send me the link now ... and then I'll be away ...

Hopefully.
blindlemon
03-19-2007, 03:27 PM
Link sent now.

Sorry for the delay - I was doing some decorating :o