Daily call failure

[riw20]

I've recently replaced the HDD in my Tivo after the original died, and it now repeatedly fails to do successful daily calls. If I restart the Tivo and then force a daily call immediately it works, but then the next scheduled daily call fails again. Is there a fix for this behaviour, or is this just a "feature". I put in a 300G Samasung HDD if that makes a difference. TIA

[Automan]

Does your Tivo make it's call via the inbuilt modem or do you have it networked?

If via phoneline is your phoneline a normal BT circuit or is your phone service provided by a third party? e.g. Virgin, Bulldog (C&W), etc.

Automan.

[Ian_m]

Lack of swap file can cause daily call failure.

[blindlemon]

Yes, sounds like an invalid or missing swapfile to me too.

Did you run copykern?

[riw20]

I use a Bulldog phone line (but have done for some time without issue), not tivoweb. I used a drive image (from a link PMed to me) to rebuild my tivo on a new drive after the original drive failed catastrophically a month or two back. Since then it's required a reboot in order to make a daily call. Any fix suggestions?

[riw20]

P.S. To answer blindlemon, if I'm running copykern, I don't know that I am, but it might have come with the drive image I used to restore my tivo.

[Ian_m]

I use a Bulldog phone line (but have done for some time without issue), not tivoweb. I used a drive image (from a link PMed to me) to rebuild my tivo on a new drive after the original drive failed catastrophically a month or two back. Since then it's required a reboot in order to make a daily call. Any fix suggestions?
No swap file. Basically you will find it fails during indexing after first data download after a reboot.

You need to fix ASAP as if the TiVo decides to rebuild/check MFS during a reboot and has no swap file it will end up in an endless reboot loop.

If its a small disk you can do something along the lines of MKSWAP (????) to get swapfile working, provided you have left space on the disk of course.

If its a large disk make sure you use an older version of the MFStools (V1 ??) as I think newer versions fail to initialise the swap file correctly.

Long time since I did all this but I did it all wrong at first, luckily I was only using a test disk before doing it for real.

[blindlemon]

For any drive, you can use copykern from the LBA48 CD (http://www.tivoheaven.com/download/ptv-mfstools2-large-disk.iso) to re-initialise the swap. It will also copy the LBA48 kernel to the drive.

[mikerr]

Several versions of mfstools aren't good at initializing swap sizes over 127MB - they leave you with no swapfile at all.
(well an uninitialized swap file..which is essentially the same as none at all).

As blindlemon says, simply running copykern will fix it.