[vox] tivo... dead... =( help!

[Mark K. Kim]

Muhahahaha...

I tried combining the original partition images with the old /var image
and everything now works.  It could be just a fluke that it started up...
but I'm not gonna find out 'cuz I'm keeping it on!!!

Still... I'm concerned the inaccessible blocks grew in size from 5 to 8...
I'm gonna try to get a new HD as soon as I get a chance and back up all I
can onto it.

Thanks y'all!  Thanks Lynn!

-Mark


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> I have an 80 hour series 2 Tivo.  It ain't booting up anymore after I
> power-cycled it to replace the power strip it was on.  Now it goes nowhere
> after "welcome.  powering up..."
>
> I had some backup images of *some* of the partitions of the hard drive
> from earlier this year so I tried restoring as much as I can (after
> backing up the existing partitions, of course).  I had backed up all the
> partitions except for the 4 MFS partitions because they were huge.  Also,
> there were corrupted blocks in my /var partition so I couldn't read about
> 5 consecutive blocks (5 blocks * 512 bytes/block) of that partition...
> except now the # of problematic blocks seems to have increased to 8
> consecutive blocks.
>
> So I restored all the partitions I could (all non-MFS partitions, less the
> 8 inaccessible blocks).  Now the Tivo goes to "welcome.  powering up..."
> -> "almost there" -> power cycle.  This repeated at least 5 times before I
> turned it off.
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to how I can fix this?  Does anyone have an 80
> hour series 2 Tivo I can mirror-image off of?  I know it's a big hassle so
> I'll pay you.  Thanks!
>
> -Mark
>
>
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