InstantCake for Series1: Stuck at Powering Up (was: Upgrade will not boot)

[dick_reiser]

I have a Sony SVR 2000 and I purchased InstantCake to upgrade to upgrsde to a two 160 gbyte drives. The InstantCake CD was shipped by 9thTee and it is labeled DVRupgrade SVR2000IC.

I followed the on screen instructions and the process completed with error but when I installed the drives in the TiVo, it would not boot up. I returned the drives to the PC and used MFSINFO and it reported that the drives were corecctly mapped.

Next I redid the process again with the same result.

Then I did the process with just one drive and got the same result.

I replaced the orginal drive in the TiVo and all is well.

Then I used a disk Image copy software to copy the orginal drive to one of the new drives. using this copy TiVo would boot.

Therefore, the drives, powersupply and cables are all OK. Thus, there seems to be a problem with the InstantCake software for this model in initalizing the boot record.

Where do I go from here?

[Lou Jacob]

This question hasn't been raised for a couple of years, so its more likely that you have something going on with your PC, or perhaps related to the CD-ROM drive, that is causing problems.

Try this workaround, published here (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14&highlight=stuck+powering) and things should be fine.

[dick_reiser]

Following Part 1 of the procedure and quiting at the end (limiting to 137 gbyte per dive) all OK. Drives work well in TiVo.

If I attempt Part 2, I get the following message when running "copykern".

/cdrom/s/_kernels/kernel-3.0/vmlinux-3.0.px.gz: No such file or directory

Writing 877568 bytes to '/mnt/kernel.org'

tpip: unknown boot block signature : oxo

Kernel updated


And if I install the drives in the TiVo unit it constantly reboots.

[Lou Jacob]

Following Part 1 of the procedure and quiting at the end (limiting to 137 gbyte per dive) all OK. Drives work well in TiVo.

If I attempt Part 2, I get the following message when running "copykern".

/cdrom/s/_kernels/kernel-3.0/vmlinux-3.0.px.gz: No such file or directory

Writing 877568 bytes to '/mnt/kernel.org'

tpip: unknown boot block signature : oxo

Kernel updated


And if I install the drives in the TiVo unit it constantly reboots.

OK... not on clear on what you did here. Since you have 2x160GB drives, you should be doing all the steps of part 1, as well as the steps of part 2. Is that what you've attempted to do?

If so, and its still not working... its because the "mountcd" command is not identifying and mounting your CD-ROM properly Is it configured as the primary slave? If not, that is the reason. You can manually mount the CD by typing:

mount /dev/hdX /cdrom

where hdX == the device letter of the drive. If your CD-ROM is set up as the primary slave, then it would be /dev/hdb.

Another question... you don't have more than one CD device in your unit, do you?

[dick_reiser]

That did it.

Lou, Thank you very much!