Hi all,
I hope that it is OK to post this here. I originally posted it over at the Silicon Dust page but since this problem is not really associated with the cache card I am trying to install I figured some of the great minds here might be able to help. Plus it will get a lot more exposure
I took my drive out of my tivo (svr-2000). It is a maxtor 160 gig, using only 137gig (for now). I have had to qunlock it before so I connected it to my Linux box and inserted the floppy containing qunlock that I used before. ran qunlock and rebooted my machine removing the floppy and booting from your cd (note: i did not power down only a ctrl-alt-del) I tried running your script and received the "can't find mfs" error. I found your faq which suggested to put the drive back into the tivo and get the SW version and do a force. When I put the drive back into the tivo I did not get past the initial 'please wait' screen for more than 10 minutes, after trying a couple of times to reboot the tivo with no changes. This made me a bit paranoid that my tivo was the problem so I placed my BU drive into the tivo and that worked fine I am sure that the version on my B/U drive is the same as my new drive so I decided to do a force based on that info. It still failed but with some other "partition error" that I don't completely recall at this point. Anyway, this made me look at the instructions more closely. I re-read the qunlock instructions and realized that I was supposed to turn the pc off not just reboot it. I then tried to start over and no matter what I did, when I looked at the boot up info from your disk and found that the drive was only being recognized as 9 meg
Do you have any suggestions?
I hope that it is OK to post this here. I originally posted it over at the Silicon Dust page but since this problem is not really associated with the cache card I am trying to install I figured some of the great minds here might be able to help. Plus it will get a lot more exposure
I took my drive out of my tivo (svr-2000). It is a maxtor 160 gig, using only 137gig (for now). I have had to qunlock it before so I connected it to my Linux box and inserted the floppy containing qunlock that I used before. ran qunlock and rebooted my machine removing the floppy and booting from your cd (note: i did not power down only a ctrl-alt-del) I tried running your script and received the "can't find mfs" error. I found your faq which suggested to put the drive back into the tivo and get the SW version and do a force. When I put the drive back into the tivo I did not get past the initial 'please wait' screen for more than 10 minutes, after trying a couple of times to reboot the tivo with no changes. This made me a bit paranoid that my tivo was the problem so I placed my BU drive into the tivo and that worked fine I am sure that the version on my B/U drive is the same as my new drive so I decided to do a force based on that info. It still failed but with some other "partition error" that I don't completely recall at this point. Anyway, this made me look at the instructions more closely. I re-read the qunlock instructions and realized that I was supposed to turn the pc off not just reboot it. I then tried to start over and no matter what I did, when I looked at the boot up info from your disk and found that the drive was only being recognized as 9 meg
Do you have any suggestions?