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I three series 2 Tivos (all 240080 models). I upgraded the three Tivos with a 2nd hard drive 2-3 years ago. Recently one of my Tivos had a hard drive crash. I unfortunately lost my backup images and am trying to recover using one of my good Tivo to create a new image and restore my failed Tivo.
Here are the steps I have taken:
Downloand and burn weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso
Mounted FAT32 partition
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
Created backup image
mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda /dev/hdb
Successful backup reported.
Halted system & place in single hard drive. This drive was verified to be good by running the manufacture's diagnotic tools and reporting no errors.
Restore image
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda
Restore reported success
Halted system & placed newly imaged drive back into Tivo
Tivo starts booting and states Powering Up
Tivo then moves to Almost there. A couple more minutes.
Then 4-6 minutes later it momentarily starts to go the Tivo main menu then goes back to Powering Up then Almost there. This continues until I unplug the Tivo.
Where did I do wrong? Can I not go from 2 drives back to 1 drive? I don't think the failed Tivo has any other hardware issue. I placed a pair of working drives into the failed Tivo and it booted properly. It did give me a warning that I could not play the recorded shows.
I've also tried the MFSLive-1.2.iso with the same results. I know that I used the older MFS tools 2-3 years ago. Do I need to backup and restore with the older MFS tools. I still have that CD.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Jorge
Here are the steps I have taken:
Downloand and burn weaknees_lba_boot_cd.iso
Mounted FAT32 partition
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt
Created backup image
mfsbackup -f 9999 -1so /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda /dev/hdb
Successful backup reported.
Halted system & place in single hard drive. This drive was verified to be good by running the manufacture's diagnotic tools and reporting no errors.
Restore image
mfsrestore -s 127 -r 4 -zxpi /mnt/backup.bak /dev/hda
Restore reported success
Halted system & placed newly imaged drive back into Tivo
Tivo starts booting and states Powering Up
Tivo then moves to Almost there. A couple more minutes.
Then 4-6 minutes later it momentarily starts to go the Tivo main menu then goes back to Powering Up then Almost there. This continues until I unplug the Tivo.
Where did I do wrong? Can I not go from 2 drives back to 1 drive? I don't think the failed Tivo has any other hardware issue. I placed a pair of working drives into the failed Tivo and it booted properly. It did give me a warning that I could not play the recorded shows.
I've also tried the MFSLive-1.2.iso with the same results. I know that I used the older MFS tools 2-3 years ago. Do I need to backup and restore with the older MFS tools. I still have that CD.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Jorge
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