Once upon a time David B~ shaped the electrons to say... > The other day I turned on my TV+Tivo to schedule a recording....and say the > Tivo screen that said: "We are downloading an update, this may take up top > an hour or more."
It probably said installing, not downloading - the downloads happen in the background. > So, I shut off the TV and decided to come back and schedule it later. > > The next day I turned on the TV and saw the same screen. Bad sign. > Wen I unplugged and plugged back in the Tivo Box...I got the screen that > says: "Tivo is starting up! Just one moment"! > > And that screen stayed on...without the machine booting up. > > Is my box gone? ANyone know what this indicates? Unfortunately, yep, it is almost certainly dead - drive corruption/failure. There are some tricks to try: || While booting the power light will change from green to yellow as the || line 'checkpanic' in the rc.sysinit gets executed. This happens a few || seconds before the screen changes from the startup image to "almost || there" and it's your cue to hold down a button (use pause) on the || remote to trigger a panic. When the record light changes yellow, key in || one of the following sequences: || || 0 - emergency call to tivo, touchtone dialing || 1 - emergency call to tivo, pulse dialing || 9 - emergency call to tivo, touchtone w/ 9 prefix || -- I suggest not doing any of these unless explicitly instructed || || 52 - emergency reinstall || -- this will act like you've received new software but will || reinstall the existing software on the alternate root partition || and boot it, particularly useful so you don't have to go || trolling for backup images when your hacks fail. || || 56 - software install || || 57 - mfs check || 58 - perform mfs cleanup || -- both of these will cause the green screen and various mfs || checks A 58 might be something to try, or perhaps 52. Background - the TiVo has two boot partitions, A & B. The way it works is say you're running on A. New software downloads, it installs on B. Then the box reboots and you run from B. Next time it downloads on A. Lather, rinse, repeat. But this also means updates are when latent issues can bite you. Say the drive is slowly failing and the problem is on the sectors that happen to be where 'B' lives. You're OK while running on A, but when the next update happens and it switches to B - bang, you're dead. That sounds like what happened to you. Forcing an MFS cleanup (MFS is the Media File System TiVo uses) may clean up corruption. The emergency reinstall may force it back to the other partition that you were on before, which may get it back running. But you might be looking at replacing the drive - consider DVRupgrade or WeaKnees for replacements. If you don't have lifetime on the unit it may be a good time to upgrade to a newer model. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
