DTivo DSR6000r01 rebooting

[Hookd]

Hi all,

This weekend I turned on my TV and noticed that my hacked (I upgraded the hard drive to two 80 gigs, and have a cachecard installed) DirecTV Tivo model Phillips DSR6000r01 was in an endless rebooting loop. This has happened before so I have a few steps I go thru. I power the Tivo off for a few hours and then let it reboot. If that doesn't work, I reinstall the cache card drivers and that usually works for me.

However, I was reading about the 'zipper' and I wanted to install TivoWebPlus on my older machine ( I purchased a hacked HD Tivo from PTV with TWP installed and I love it). The software said that it would work on my Series 1 DTivo.

So I did the cachecard update and then added the 'zipper' software mods and I was still in the endless reboot. And, one time it rebooted and gave me a 'No boot kernel'. I pulled the drives again and I ran 'tivoflash' again since elsewhere in a thread it said it couldn't hurt; and I tried running 'killinitrd' but it says that it doesn't exist. I tried to reinstall the cache card but it seems that there is either two active partitions or no active partitions. It did reboot and load once. Everything worked and all the recordings are on the drives but after about 15 minutes.. it went back into the reloop mode. I bought the Universal CD Boot but there were major errors on it and I couldn't get CopyKernel to run. It is now on the GSOD and I am hoping that it is rebuilding as I write.

The drives are not making noises but it is possible that one of them is failing. Or the other possibility is that I've trashed the boot kernel and I need to fix that.

So here are my questions...

1. Is it possible to replace the two older drives with one (or two) newer drives while keeping the recordings with having to get a new boot image?

2. Is it possible to fix the boot kernel without losing the the recording?


I am hoping that the GSOD fixes my problems.. but any advice would be great.

Thanks

[Hookd]

Just a quick note to say that the GSOD saved the day and everything is back to normal.


The problem that I was having in understanding what was happening is that everyone was speaking of that LBA48A kernel repair for drives larger that 137 gb. I am using two 80gb.

Anyway.. all is well

[captain_video]

The Zipper only works with series 2 Tivos. TWP will work fine on either platform. Killinitrd is run as part of the cachecard driver install and should not have to be run again. The same goes for Tivoflash since it flashes the EEPROM and is unlikely to change.

The GSOD allows your DTivo to go into hibernation and repair itself. If it recovers the DTivo is usually fine from that point on. That's not to say it can't happen again if the drive has developed defects (i.e. bad sectors).

[Hookd]

The Zipper only works with series 2 Tivos. TWP will work fine on either platform. Killinitrd is run as part of the cachecard driver install and should not have to be run again. The same goes for Tivoflash since it flashes the EEPROM and is unlikely to change..

According the the website and the first screen when the software comes on.. it Zipper will work on a Phillips DSR6000. It lists all the machines and mine was one of them. That is the only reason I tried it.

[JimSpence]

The Zipper works on DSR7000, not the DSR6000.