Series 2, post upgrade, constant rebooting

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I have a series 2 TCD240040 (comes stock with the single 40GB hd) running 7.2.1. It's been running fine for almost 2 years.

I just did a storage upgrade, using the lba48 weaknees cd/mfs tools.

I replaced the stock drive with 2 new seagate 250GB drives (my understanding is that the series 2 standalones running 7.1 or greater have an lba48 kernel). I wanted to preserve my existing shows, so I ran the "mfsbackup .... | mfsrestore .... " command. It took several hours to run, as expected, and all the output looked appropriate. No reported errors.

After placing the new drives in the unit and powering it up (lid still off), it never fully boots up, however. It gets past the grey 'powering up' screen and gets to the orange screen with the giant TiVo mascott claiming 'almost there. just a few minutes more...'. It stays there for a minute or so, and then reboots, starting the process over again.

I watched it do this about 3 or 4 times before I powered it off.

Any clues?


(edit: updated the title)

 

Thanks for the response!

I didn't see that specific detail, but this from the Hinsdale How-to:

So... I thought it would be ok. Maybe not? I would imagine though, that by the time I've gotten to that orange screen, both drives have long since spun up. Then again, a constant rebooting like that could be a sign of an over-taxed powersupply.

Yup, jumpers are good, and yeah, I used the -x switch. The command I used was:

mfsbackup -Tao - /dev/hdc | mfsrestore -s 192 -xzpi - /dev/hda /dev/hdb
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... where /dev/hdc was the original tivo A drive.

Of course, I don't have that screen up anymore where I typed that command, so I can't verify by looking at it, I can only go by the Hinsdale how-to in front of me, and know that I typed it exactly as it is there. I do remember seeing messages where it was adding the new drives and gave me a total size which seemed about right (580 hours, or something like that).

I'm hoping it's not the power supply issue you mentioned... I really want to have both drives in there.

 

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ah. yeah, that could be the issue. I can modify the .iso I have (with the lba48 stuff) to include a version of tpip and redo the whole thing from the beginning (after reading those links, I realize I should have a swap space of 250 anyway).

I imagine in a 2 drive setup you point tpip to the A drive (I'll see if there's documentation) since the examples I'm seeing only involve a single drive system.

 

Thanks for the tpip tip!

Yes, that did the trick. Created a new .iso that included tpip, redid the mfsbackup|mfsrestore command (with a 250 meg swap space), then told tpip to fix/enable the swap space on the 'A' drive, and everything seems to be working fine now.

So, my second tivo hack, a 40 hour Series 2 SA to a 582 hour unit, is now a success.

Thanks!